Black Beauty Eggplant Vegetable Seeds Packet
Black Beauty Eggplant seeds for the kitchen garden that intends to actually produce black beauty eggplant this year. Black Beauty eggplant is the kind of vegetable that looks good on the vine and better in the oven.
Black Beauty Eggplant is the classic deep-purple eggplant with glossy skin and dense, meaty flesh ideal for roasting and grilling. 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 Black Beauty Eggplant from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Start indoors 8-10 weeks before last frost at 24-27C. Transplant after soil warms. Full sun.
Care and Harvest
Classic large, deep purple eggplant. Harvest at 15-20cm for best texture. 80 days.
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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Black Beauty Eggplant seeds for the kitchen garden that intends to actually produce black beauty eggplant this year. Black Beauty eggplant is the kind of vegetable that looks good on the vine and better in the oven.
Black Beauty Eggplant is the classic deep-purple eggplant with glossy skin and dense, meaty flesh ideal for roasting and grilling. 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 Black Beauty Eggplant from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Start indoors 8-10 weeks before last frost at 24-27C. Transplant after soil warms. Full sun.
Care and Harvest
Classic large, deep purple eggplant. Harvest at 15-20cm for best texture. 80 days.
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.
