Box de graines - Potager urbain/ Box Grow Your own Food on your balcony
BOX grow your own food on your balcony
Growing your own food while living in a city is fully possible, even in pots & containers.
Patrick, « The Frenchie Gardener » on Instagram, has been growing food on his balcony for years & has selected for you his favorite varieties. To guide you step by step, he created tutorial videos to give you insights & tips on :
- How to grow these varieties
- How & when to start your seedlings
- How to transplant your seedlings in their final pots
- Plant care tips
- How to reuse urban resources to grow your food & enrich your soil.
Content of the box
This box is the perfect starter kit to grow your own organic food on your balcony; it contains:
- A selection of 10 organic heirloom seeds fully adapted for pots and containers.
- Tutorial videos accessible via the QR codes, to guide you step by step, from seeds to harvest.
- 10 illustrated sheets with more details on each variety.
- 24 carton jiffy cups to start your seedlings.
- 10 kraft envelopes to collect your own seeds.
- A gardener notebook
Who is The Frenchie Gardener ?
Patrick Vernuccio « The Frenchie Gardener » on Instagram, has lived in urban areas since his childhood. Four years ago, he decided to try to grow food on his balcony. He quickly discovered how magic it is to plant a seed which can give birth to a huge plant, providing edible fruits or vegetables. Growing food in urban areas is possible and he experimented with many different varieties to see which ones would grow healthily in pots & containers, even with a limited space. He is now growing dozens of edible varieties. Growing your food can reconnect you with our seasons, our nature & the food we have on our plate. An urban garden is also a place on which you can welcome back biodiversity by planting flowers. Patrick advocates for growing heirloom seeds with Kokopelli, that are fully reproducible.
Grow your own food with heirloom varieties!
What are the heirloom varieties in the box ?
Aubergine/Eggplant Listada da gandia
This heirloom variety produces oval, cream-colored fruits with pinkish-purple stripes, with a green, spiny calyx. They offer a firm flesh of excellent quality. It is advisable to harvest when they are quite young.
This productive variety offers, even in cool weather, beautiful shiny green fruits with thin skin, quite tender and resistant.
This ancient and fast-growing variety produces wavy leaves, light green tinged with red-brown, forming an apple with a tight heart.
This variety produces thin-skinned, elongated, wrinkled, pointed fruits that ripen bright green to red. They are definitely suitable for drying.
This ancient variety produces all year round, you can replant it several times during the year. It produces red roots with a white tip which offer a tender and crunchy flesh.
This variety will give you a first harvest only 2 or 3 weeks after sowing!
This vigorous variety is very productive. It offers many small round fruits of about 90 g, green in color streaked with light yellow-green. The emerald green flesh is sweet and spicy at the same time.
This variety will develop into a magnificent perfumed plant, even if grown in a small pot.
This variety is one of the most melliferous. Sown densely, it very quickly covers the ground with large carpets of cut foliage reminiscent of tansy and offers, for several months, clusters of lavender blue flowers, much appreciated by insects. Phacelia also fixes mineral nitrogen and returns it to the next crop in the form of assimilable nitrogen. Its fine and dense root system quickly smothers weeds - especially quackgrass.
This variety would produce, from spring to autumn, orange and yellow flowers. It is a melliferous plant that can be also used for tinctures and which also has many medicinal virtues. It is the best known of the Calendula officinalis. The origin of the name "Calendula" comes from the fact that it flowers all year round, during calendes (1st day of the month for the Romans) of each month.
This variety can reach 80cm in height and produces upright, sturdy stems bearing an abundance of double flowers offering a coral-red color. Perfect for biodiversity.
Warning : The phytosanitary legislation is proper to each country. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the reception of your order outside European Union. The association advice you to enquire with local authorities before order. The association will not refund orders in case of customs seized.
