Family Garden Pack

About
The Family Garden Pack brings together our most beloved, easy-to-grow vegetables and herbs to feed and delight everyone at the table. From sweet carrots and crisp cucumbers to vibrant chard and tender peas, plus flavourful dill and parsley for garnishes, this curated selection ensures fresh, homegrown goodness all season long.

Where Can You Grow
These versatile varieties thrive in full sun with well-drained, fertile soil. Sow in garden beds, raised planters, or large containers. Provide consistent moisture and support tall vines and climbing crops with trellises or stakes.

History and Historical Uses

• Carrot: Valued since ancient Rome for its sweet roots and digestive benefits.

• Marketmore Cucumber: Popular Victorian heirloom for cool-weather pickling and salads.

• Salad Mix: Mediterranean-style baby lettuces for fresh salads and garnishes.

• Chard Mix: Swiss chard heirlooms prized in European kitchens for colourful stems.

• Shelling & Snap Peas: Early New World legumes, eaten fresh or cooked for protein.

• Tomato Mix: Heirloom slicing, cherry and paste types for sauces, salads and drying.

• Howden Pumpkin: Mid-20th-century favourite for pies and autumn decor.

• Bush Bean Mix: Compact heirlooms for reliable, protein-rich harvests.

• Mouse Melon: Mexican sour cucumber snack loved for its miniature size.

• Dill & Parsley: Classic culinary and medicinal herbs for digestive support and flavour.

Canadian Zone Information

Zones 2–9: Direct-sow peas, beans and carrots as soon as soil can be worked; sow chard, parsley and dill indoors 6–8 weeks before last frost and transplant; sow cucumber, tomato and pumpkin indoors and transplant after frost.

How to Grow and Harvest

• Sowing: Sow roots and legumes ½–1 in deep; sow leafy greens and herbs ¼ in deep; start solanums and cucurbits indoors ¼ in deep.

• Spacing: Thin carrots 2–3 in apart; peas and beans 4–6 in apart; chard and cucumber 12–18 in; tomato 18–24 in; pumpkin 36 in; herbs 6–8 in.

• Support & Maintenance: Provide trellises for peas, beans and cucumbers; cage tomatoes; mulch to retain moisture and suppress weeds.

• Harvest: Pick peas and beans young; harvest carrots and radish-like roots at maturity; cut greens as needed; pick herbs before flowering; harvest pumpkins when skin hardens.

Seed Saving Tips for Future Supply

• Isolation: Keep root crops and legumes 3 ft apart; solanums 10 ft apart; cucurbits 20 ft apart.

• Collection: Allow pods, seed heads and fruits to fully mature and dry on the plant.

• Cleaning & Storage: Shell, thresh or rub seeds free of chaff; winnow if necessary; store airtight in a cool, dark place.

Certified Organic By
Islands Organics Producers Association (Cert#1962)