Vegetable Survival Seed Kit
The Vegetable Survival Seed Kit contains 12 varieties of easy to grow nutritious container varieties for sowing or harvesting every month of the year to help feed your family, including varieties for preserving or storing over winter.
Everything you need to help feed your family for a year with:
- Straight forward easy to grow in containers or in the ground
- Varieties for sowing and harvesting all year
- Varieties that grow quickly or have good storing properties
- Varieties with good nutritional value that can be eaten raw or cooked
- Varieties that can be sown in succession for continuous crops
- Varieties that can be grown without special equipment
With full instructions and a sowing/harvesting plan included inside, this kit is aimed at both the absolute beginner or allotmenteer and makes a great gift.
Harvest all year. In a protected space like a greenhouse or balcony you might be able to extend seasons. Performance subject to conditions.
Carrot Short
Easy to grow even in heavy soil. Stagger sowing.
Eat fresh, freeze, juice. High in fibre and Vit K, Potassium and antioxidants.
Sow Mar – Jul 1cm depth Harvest till Sep.
Lambs Lettuce (Corn Salad)
Easy to grow, resists the cold.
Nutritional. Good source of beta carotine and Vit A.
Sow Feb-May and Jul to Sep 1cm depth Harvest May-Aug and Sep to Dec.
Spinach
4 harvests possible per year.
Full of Iron, minerals, Vit C and K.
Sow Feb-May and Aug to Oct 2cm depth Harvest May-Jul and Sep to Dec.
Broad Beans
2 Harvests per year.
Dry or eat fresh.
No saturated fat or cholesterol and contain a high concentration of thiamin, vitamin K, vitamin B-6, potassium,copper, selenium, zinc, magnesium.
Sow Feb-May and Sep to Nov 2cm depth. Harvest in Summer and Spring respectively.
Cut-and-come-again Lettuce
Sow every 3 weeks for continuous harvest till first frosts.
Calcium, potassium, Vit C and folate.
Sow Mar – Sep 1cm depth Harvest May till Nov.
Broccoletti
Fast growing brocoletti, healthy and easy to grow.
Vit K and C, folic acid and fibre.
Sow May-Aug 1cm depth Harvest late Summer and Autumn.
Kale
Completely winter hardy.
Steam, boil, use in stews or soups.
Sow May to Jul 1cm depth Harvest through the winter.
Pea Dwarf
Two harvests, nutritional, can be dried or frozen.
As a source of vitamin K & manganese, thiamin, copper, vitamin C, phosphorous, folate, green peas offer a remarkable nutrition profile.
Sow Feb-Apr and Sep-Nov 2cm depth Harvest late Summer and Spring respectively.
Borlotto Bean Dwarf
Shell and either dry or freeze. Use in stews, soups, casseroles.
Very high potassium content. Sow Mar-Jun 2cm depth Harvest late Summer.
French Bean
Easy to grow. Beans mature at same time at same length so ideal for freezing.
Vitamins C and A, and minerals including iron, calcium and magnesium.
Sow Mar-Jun 2cm depth Harvest late Summer.
Bush Tomato
Source of vitamins and antioxidents.
Can be dried or frozen or made in to sauces.
Sow Spring 1cm depth Harvest Summer.
Pumpkin
Can be stored through winter. Small culinary variety.
The edible flowers are delicious in omelettes once the crown has been removed.
Contains Vit A and antioxidants.
Sow Mar-Jun Harvest.
Instructions:
It is very easy to over complicate growing veg. Plant them at the proper time and depth one fist apart in dirt and water them when dry.
You can grow them in garden soil or buy grow bags from your garden centre which are not expensive.
Try and plant them all in at least 60% sun, the tomato 75%.
Spring Sow:
Carrot, Lambs Lettuce, Lettuce, French bean, Tomato, Spinach, Pumpkin, Pea, Broad Bean, Borlotto bean.
Summer Sow:
Carrot, Lettuce, Kale, French bean, Broccoli, Borlotto bean.
Autumn/Winter Sow:
Lambs Lettuce, Spinach, Pea, Broad Bean.
A great saving of £7.45 off the regular single packet price.
Shelf life minimum 2/3 years stated but will last many years stored correctly.
Brand Seeds of Italy.
