Oregano Herb Seeds Packet
Oregano seeds for the kitchen herb garden, the windowsill, or the general project of improving things. Oregano is the herb that improves with neglect, which makes it uniquely suited to most kitchen gardens.
Oregano is a Mediterranean perennial herb that delivers its best flavour when the soil stays dry and unirrigated. 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 Oregano from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Surface sow indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Seeds need light to germinate.
Care and Harvest
Flavour intensifies when soil is lean and dry. Harvest before flowering for best flavour. Perennial in zones 5+.
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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Oregano seeds for the kitchen herb garden, the windowsill, or the general project of improving things. Oregano is the herb that improves with neglect, which makes it uniquely suited to most kitchen gardens.
Oregano is a Mediterranean perennial herb that delivers its best flavour when the soil stays dry and unirrigated. 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 Oregano from Seed
Sowing and Germination
Surface sow indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Seeds need light to germinate.
Care and Harvest
Flavour intensifies when soil is lean and dry. Harvest before flowering for best flavour. Perennial in zones 5+.
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.
