Asparagus Mary Washington Vegetable Seeds Packet
Asparagus Mary Washington seeds for the kitchen garden that intends to actually produce asparagus mary washington this year. Mary Washington asparagus requires patience before its first harvest and then rewards you for decades, which is either inspiring or the gardening equivalent of a very long job interview.
Asparagus Mary Washington is the classic heirloom asparagus variety that takes three years to produce and then reliably delivers for twenty. Each packet is hermetically vacuum-sealed -- removing the oxygen that causes standard paper seed packets to lose germination viability within approximately one year. State law requires a 3-year viability label on sealed packaging. NASA research on hermetic seed storage indicates viability of up to 10 years under proper conditions. Every packet is non-GMO and germination-tested at independent third-party labs before it earns its Japanese woodblock print artwork.
How to Grow Asparagus Mary Washington from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Start indoors in late winter or direct sow in spring. Needs 2-3 years before first harvest.
Care and Harvest
Productive for 20+ years once established. Harvest for 6-8 weeks in year 3+. Do not harvest early years.
Why Vacuum-Sealed Seeds Last Longer
Standard paper seed packets are permeable to oxygen and moisture -- the two primary causes of seed degradation. Most paper-packaged seeds begin losing germination viability after approximately one year, contributing to significant garden-industry waste: packets purchased, not planted, expired, discarded. Shido Seeds are hermetically vacuum-sealed. The packet does not expire quietly in a drawer. It waits.
About the Packaging
Every Shido seed packet is illustrated in the style of Japanese 1910s woodblock printing -- designed and drawn in-house by Chive, the Toronto ceramics studio that has been exhibiting at the Chelsea Flower Show in London every year and does not, as a matter of principle, sell to big-box retailers. Customers collect the packets as a series. This was not the original plan.
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Asparagus Mary Washington seeds for the kitchen garden that intends to actually produce asparagus mary washington this year. Mary Washington asparagus requires patience before its first harvest and then rewards you for decades, which is either inspiring or the gardening equivalent of a very long job interview.
Asparagus Mary Washington is the classic heirloom asparagus variety that takes three years to produce and then reliably delivers for twenty. Each packet is hermetically vacuum-sealed -- removing the oxygen that causes standard paper seed packets to lose germination viability within approximately one year. State law requires a 3-year viability label on sealed packaging. NASA research on hermetic seed storage indicates viability of up to 10 years under proper conditions. Every packet is non-GMO and germination-tested at independent third-party labs before it earns its Japanese woodblock print artwork.
How to Grow Asparagus Mary Washington from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Start indoors in late winter or direct sow in spring. Needs 2-3 years before first harvest.
Care and Harvest
Productive for 20+ years once established. Harvest for 6-8 weeks in year 3+. Do not harvest early years.
Why Vacuum-Sealed Seeds Last Longer
Standard paper seed packets are permeable to oxygen and moisture -- the two primary causes of seed degradation. Most paper-packaged seeds begin losing germination viability after approximately one year, contributing to significant garden-industry waste: packets purchased, not planted, expired, discarded. Shido Seeds are hermetically vacuum-sealed. The packet does not expire quietly in a drawer. It waits.
About the Packaging
Every Shido seed packet is illustrated in the style of Japanese 1910s woodblock printing -- designed and drawn in-house by Chive, the Toronto ceramics studio that has been exhibiting at the Chelsea Flower Show in London every year and does not, as a matter of principle, sell to big-box retailers. Customers collect the packets as a series. This was not the original plan.
