Raspberry Fall Gold seeds for the kitchen garden that intends to actually produce raspberry fall gold this year. Fall Gold raspberry is the colour of late afternoon in August, which is perhaps the most pleasant thing a fruit can aspire to.

Raspberry Fall Gold is autumn-fruiting raspberry with golden-yellow berries and an exceptionally sweet flavour. 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 Raspberry Fall Gold from Seed

Sowing and Germination

Start indoors 8-10 weeks before last frost or sow in autumn. Well-drained fertile soil.

Care and Harvest

Golden-yellow fruit with honey-sweet flavour. Autumn-fruiting. Prune after harvest.

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.