Box of seeds - le Potager urbain by The Frenchie Garderner + Pocket knife N°08 Opinel Green Love
What if sowing seeds and growing your own vegetable garden became possible even in the middle of the city? In partnership with The Frenchie Gardener, Kokopelli has designed this organic seed kit containing everything you need to start your own urban vegetable garden:
- A selection of 10 organic seed packets
- Step-by-step videos on how to grow each variety
- 24 wood-fiber cups
- 10 seed storage bags
- 10 growing instructions for each species
- 1 gardener's notebook
Limited Edition N°08 Opinel Green Love pocket knife
Born of a collaboration between the famous Opinel brand and Patrick Vernuccio, The Frenchie Gardener is the knife that will accompany you in all your garden harvests! The n°08, a great classic, is a versatile tool. Its varnished beechwood handle guarantees real ergonomics, and its stainless steel blade with its legendary sharpness will become an everyday essential! Fitted with a Virobloc ring, you'll be able to use and store it in complete safety. Its PEFC beechwood handle certifies that the wood comes from eco-managed forests in the Jura and Isère regions. Limited edition engraved on both sides of the handle (fruit/vegetables), made in France, blade length 8.5cm.
What does the urban vegetable garden seed box consist of?
This seed box is made up of 10 packets of organic, reproducible seeds that can be grown in pots, tubs and window boxes. These varieties have been selected for their effectiveness and complementarity in the urban environment. Tomatoes go perfectly with basil, marigolds keep aphids away and flowers attract pollinators, promising ever more beautiful vegetables...
The tutorial videos produced by The Frenchie Gardener cover all the key stages of cultivation: sowing, transplanting and harvesting, and include bonus tips for organizing an urban vegetable garden.
The wood-fibre cups are biodegradable and can be planted directly in the ground once the seedlings are fully grown.
Seed storage bags can be used to store harvested seeds after the season. Kept dry in a garage, they can be resown next year.
Crop information sheets are a gold mine of species-specific information, a precious ally for cultivating varieties.
The gardener's notebook provides a guided record of a season in the vegetable garden. Sowing calendar, garden design plan, month-by-month crop list, creativity and free expression are all welcome!
Who is The Frenchie Gardener?
Patrick Vernuccio, known as "The Frenchie Gardener" on Instagram, has always lived in the city. 4 years ago, he embarked on his gardening adventure. He discovered the magic of planting a seed and was amazed to see it grow. He soon realized that it was possible to grow his own food on his balcony. Since then, he has been experimenting, testing new species and seeds. Today, he cultivates some thirty different varieties from his 5th-floor balcony, with abundant harvests. Thanks to his urban vegetable garden, he eats healthier, respects the cycle of the seasons and picks his vegetables directly from his balcony. He promotes biodiversity through the number of species he grows. He supports peasant agriculture by buying his seeds from Kokopelli.
What varieties are included in the urban vegetable garden kit?
This old-fashioned variety produces oval, cream-colored fruits striped with mauve-pink, with a green, spiny calyx. The flesh is firm and of excellent quality.
This variety should be picked when fairly young.
Even in cool weather, this productive variety produces beautiful, shiny green fruit with a thin, fairly tender and resistant skin. The fruit can still be kept when the skin begins to soften.
This ancient, hardy, fast-growing variety produces wavy, light-green leaves tinged with reddish-brown, forming a tight-core head.
This low-growing, almost creeping variety produces firm fruit that ripens from yellow to orange to bright red.
This old-fashioned variety produces half-long red roots with white tips and tender, crunchy flesh all year round, as long as sowing is staggered.
This very early radish will produce its first harvest just 2 or 3 weeks after sowing!
This vigorous, high-yielding variety produces many small, round fruits weighing around 90 g, with a green color zebra-striped with light yellow-green. The emerald-green flesh is both sweet and tangy.
This species is one of the most melliferous. Sown densely, it quickly covers the ground with large mats of cut foliage reminiscent of tansy, and for several months offers clusters of lavender-blue flowers, much appreciated by insects.
Phacelia fixes mineral nitrogen and returns it to the following crop in the form of assimilable nitrogen. Its fine, dense root system quickly suffocates weeds - especially quackgrass.
From spring to autumn, this variety offers orange and yellow flowers that are melliferous, tinctorial and have many medicinal virtues.
It is the best-known Calendula officinalis. The origin of the name "Calendula" comes from the fact that it flowers all year round, during the calendas (1st day of the month in Roman times) of each month.
This annual, bushy variety reaches 60 cm in height and offers an abundance of flowers with pointed, elongated petals, in orange and mahogany tinged with golden yellow.
This variety, bred for resistance to basil blight, has very large, slightly serrated, fairly flat green leaves, 6 to 7 cm long.
