As most of you know I thrive on being organised, I’m one of those crazy people that love making lists, taking notes, making sketchbooks and having a tidy shed! So when the lovely Sarah from Franklyn and Vincent got in contact with me regarding her beautiful handmade seed boxes I jumped at the chance of owning one.
Available in Black, Green and Grey and measuring 30cm x 20cm x 14cm, the box has a hinged lid with a clasp on the front to keep it secure. Inside there are 3 compartments, perfect for keeping all your seed packets organised and it even fits my allotment notebook inside too! Not only do you get the beautiful seed box but also included are some helpful gardening essentials such as Nutscene twine, scissors, a notebook, wooden seed labels and envelopes for seed sharing.
Handmade, hand painted and hand finished in East London, Sarah says ‘The seed boxes we found were too small, a bit twee or full of things we didn’t use, so we created our own. We loved it so much, we thought we’d share them.’ And we are so glad she did! I’ve managed to fill my box up with every single seed packet that I own so now they are all in one handy place tucked in my potting shed ready for the busy sowing months ahead.
If you have fallen in love with the Mighty Seed box like I have then you can own one too as I have been given the opportunity to give one away to one of my lucky followers (UK residents only I’m afraid) All you have to do is comment below with what you are most looking forward to growing this year and I’ll pull a name from the hat on Monday the 10th of April. The winner can choose which colour seed box they would like from the list and it will be sent out directly from the company… Good Luck everyone!
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111 thoughts on “The Mighty Seed Box (and Giveaway!)”
I would loves the green one the thing I most looking forward to growing is my tomatoes and peppers and soft fruit
Looking forward to growing tomatoes in my new greenhouse we finally moved to a house where I could have one after over ten years of moving around following my husbands work. So happy to finally have a plot & a greenhouse now 😀 Your seed boxs look lovely ❤️
Can’t wait for my 13 month old daughter to try her first new potatoes which I’ve just planted!
I am most looking forward to growing corn again this year. I always fail so far, but every year I try my best and think ‘this is it! This will be the year that I figure out how to grow corn’!
Would love one.! Can’t wait to see growth under one of the cloches bought last yr as our plot ready for growing at long last after clearing it. Getting excited now watching first garlic growing.! Potatoes going in this weekend and Tomatoes are now big enough to go into individual pots. Cauliflower, sprouts and swedes seedlings ready to separate. Can’t wait for our first year of veg.! Exciting year ahead. One of the seed boxes would be very useful. ☺️
I am most looking forward to growing my sweet peas, especially the Mollie Rillstone, I’m hoping she will be as beautiful as the pictures show
I am looking forward to growing some small round carrots this year. The variety is Parijse Markt 4 and hopefully ready for early summer.
This year I am most looking forward to growing heritage tomatoes with fabulous names such as Bloody Butcher and Cream Sausage! I have ordered far too many seeds given the size of my small plot and need something stylish and practical to keep them in to replace my battered Quality St tin!
I am mostly looking forward to growing and eating sweetcorn Nom nom as well as lots of bee and butterfly friendly cosmos, stunning. Xxx
Am excited about growing my first giant tomatoes and leeks
Nice box. Most looking forward to growing Taunton Deane perennial kale! Oh, and purple carrots and beetroot and raddish and sweet peas and and and ….. so much stuff. I need a seed box 😉
I grew a small raised bed of wildflowers last year. I collected all the seed, and have just sown a 15ft square bed around my pond with them. It’s going to look amazing. My favourite crop last year was Inca Berries, so will be growing them again, and also have just sown Morelle de Balbis (Litchi tomato), and looking forward to tasting those
I’m most looking forward to growing tomatoes this year. Sadly I’ve had to give up my massive allotment as I just had a baby and don’t have the time to give to it, so instead my husband got me a greenhouse for our garden and I can’t wait to pop outside for fresh tomatoes for our salads
Fingers crossed I should be getting my first allotment this week! Hopefully I can get something done on the allotment and make some space to fit in the peas I have grown from seed. So excited to taste something I’ve grown. The seed box would be really handy to start my journey 😍🌱🙂
Hi Katie, that box looks really pretty and very handy, would love to swap it for my ugly plastic one 😁 I’m really looking forward to try purple broccoli and chard this year. Very inspired by your blog, thank you and have a lovely day ☉Renata x
I’m really looking forward to growing Yacon for the first time! Apparently it’s an interesting tuber with the texture of water chestnuts and a sweet taste of pear with a hint of watermelon! Yacón is deliciously juicy, especially when freshly lifted and eaten raw – the word ‘yacón’ apparently means ‘water root’ in the Inca language.
These seed boxes are amazing! I currently have 4 small seed boxes and to have them all in 1 place would be great
I’m really looking forward to my squash crop this year. It was a total disaster last year so I’m growing 4 different varieties to up my chance of getting at least 1 winter squash 🙈
I’m super excited about potatoes, I know its pretty lame but I love potatoes… Yum yum yum
I am looking forward to my Spindle tree root cuttings thriving and growing this year, they have spectacular fuchsia pink blossom with mustard coloured centres on bare branches. Looks almost Japanese.
Also the dried marigold, poppy, foxglove, lupin and sweet William seeds I gathered from my own plants to fill my cottage garden and feed the birds, butterflies and bees. A few short sunflowers will provide a meal alongside the white and mauve buddleia.
First time to own an Allotment and therefore looking forward to plant a variety of Veggies esp beans, brassicas and squashes.
Receiving a seed box for organizing my seeds will be a bonus❤️
I love the idea of these! We took on an allotment last winter so am very much looking forward to seeing anything that grows this year - fingers crossed my dreams of a small flower cutting patch come true as well as plenty of potatoes and other veg for summer BBQs.
I’d love to win one! I’m very new to growing my own produce and this kind of box would help so much with organisation. I’m super excited to grow radishes and carrots this year - I know they’re super easy but we’ve all got to start somewhere right? Love your blog x
I am dying to see my Munchkin mini pumpkins scrambling up the black metal arch I have just erected on the allotment. Growing vertically makes the plot look so pretty and it saves space 😊
I am most looking forward to my nigella and sweetpeas popping up this year as I am hoping to use them in wedding flowers later in the year, oh and also my beetroot as I love to make beetroot brownies.
I’m looking forward to the Chocolate cherry tomatoes that are already doing well in our front window. For the Plot, I’m going to grow some Sherbet Fizz marigolds. Stripey beetroot! I have to have some stripey beetroot!
I’m looking forward to growing Munchkin Pumpkins this year. Katie said how good they were a couple of years ago and I completely failed to get the seeds last year. So this year, here goes……. Going to grow them up a trellis with sweet peas.
I love this seed box - they’re normally far too small!
It’s my first year growing veg, now that I finally have a garden that’s bigger than a postage stamp, and I’m getting a small plot on a community allotment.
I’m looking forward to French beans and rainbow chard - I had some, homegrown, at a friend’s last year, and I couldn’t believe how tasty they were!
I’m looking forward to growing Patty Pan squash, I always thought they looked so intriguing, so I cant wait to grow my own now I have my own allotment plot.
Wow these are fantastic. I’m most looking forward to growing my lettuce this year. I grow it for my chickens who just love to raid the veggie patch. I spend a whole lot of time chasing them away from it.
It’s my first year on the allotment (but not the first gardening) and I’m really looking forward to growing peas as I like to eat them raw when they are still young and soft, and the ones from the shop never measure up.
I am going to try growing pumpkin munchkin. Tried last year with absolutely no success but I am determined to have another go.
What a lovely seed box, all mine are shoved in an old ice cream tub! I’m looking forward to trying to grow sweetcorn this year. Apparently the badgers take a liking to it on our site, so hopefully we’ll get to eat some of it!
I look forward to growing broad beans in my garden for the first time. I have had a greenhouse for a year but its the first time I will be growing in the garden after digging up my grass to make way for lots of vegetables!
I cant wait to taste the meteor peas that my 2.5 year old planted at recent seed potato day in Frome. He is so into gardening already and love to go and look at the plants every day.
I took your advice after watching one of your allotment videos and purchased some of Sarah’s “Munchkin” Climbing Pumpkins. You don’t get many in a packet so I have sown all of them and I await anxiously for signs of green life poking through the compost! So far I haven’t seen any life yet but I can’t wait to see them climbing in my poly tunnel and hopefully providing me with both lots of pumpkin to eat/ store and collect seeds for the following year!
This year I’m looking forward to my big Corazon tomatoes again they were amazing last year. Sarax
The seed box is very cute, and I can imagine it would keep the mice out 😀 I’m most looking forward to growing sugar snap peas this year, if the mice done eat them all first! Emily xx
I don’t know how to cook them or grow them but I’m looking forward to trying Artichokes this year on my allotment.
Wish me luck!
Been an allotment holder for 17 years but this is yhe first year of growing everything from seed. Looking forward to planting out the leeks, sweetcorn, dwarf french beans, cabbages, turnips plus many more seedlings that are currently thriving in our conservatory. However my excitement lies with the kalette (flower sprouts) seedlings! Can’t wait to see these little beauties growing.
My favourite harlequin sunflowers and a variety I’ve never tried before, little Leo
Purple sprouting broccoli! At the moment my first ever purple sprouting broccoli is starting to go over so I’m very excited at the tiny little seedlings that are popping their heads up to start all over again this year.
Thank you for offering such a lovely prize Katie. I’ve been busy making a fruit garden, so I’m looking forward to everything growing but most of all, I’m looking forward to tasting the pineberry, the pink lemonade blueberry and growing from seed, then it would have to be the Ice lemon cucamelon.
I can’t wait to grow munchkin pumpkins after seeing you grow them on your YouTube channel. This is my first year growing any sort of vegetables so I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I can get at least a small harvest from everything I sow!
Thanks so much for the chance to win the seed organiser box. This year I’m looking forward to growing different varieties of potatoes, cauliflower and parsnips as well as sweet peas and cucumbers. Xx
I’m looking forward to lightening strip tomatoes this year! I’ve been growing basics (beefsteak, romas) for a few years now, so I’m going to experiment with some flashier tomatoes!
I’m most looking forward to my winter pumpkins and squash, specifically my galeux de’eynises (I think that’s how you spell it!) which are a salmon pink pumpkin which develop corky ‘warts’ all over their skin in storage, making them sweeter the longer you keep them. I love watching your YouTube channel and the rusted hooks you sell are fab. Thanks!
These look so lovely! (And would save my seeds from the carrier bags they currently reside in - which is not great for seeds I know!)
I’m most looking forward to sweet peas I think. They’re the one thing I just can’t wait to get home each year, and fill my flat with their gorgeous smell. Blueberries and (fingers crossed we’ll actually get some) Munchkin pumpkins are close behind. (Wanted to grow some over an archway since I read about them on your blog.)
Danni
I am most looking forward to growing sweetcorn again - until I got an allotment I had never tasted fresh sweetcorn. I have invested in a separate chest freezer this year to make the most of my gluts!
Wow! I’m sooooo looking forward to growing munchkin pumpkins this year! I managed 6 off 4 plants last year so I’m determined to get more! X fantastic giveaway Katie! X
Aww, these are lovely! I’ve got my seeds just chucked in a draw at the moment and they’re spilling out everywhere haha, so I could definitely do with one! I’m most excited about growing tomatoes this year. So boring I know, but they’re always so much nicer than shop bought ones!
xo April | April Everyday
I’m most looking forward to trying to grow some mini outdoor cucumbers, I want grow them up an arch over the path to my greenhouse. I haven’t built the arch yet so that should be a fun little project too! Jem x
What a lovely addition to your gardening kit! I love that they have different sized compartments - treats are also nice 😊😊 I’m most excited about growing some perennial flowers such as Angelica Gigas, but also cucumbers! Something different in going to try are chickpeas and sweet potato…! See how that goes! xx
I’m most excited about growing mallow. I’ve never eaten this before or heard of it until recently, so fingers crossed it grows well 😉
I’m in my first year of allotment growing, I’m most looking forward to my parsnips going in the ground in their recycled toilet rolls! And of course trying to stop my 18 month old daughter from running all over the beds in her enthusiasm!!
Wow what a stunning box, it looks perfect!
I’m looking forward to growing peas. Last year was a complete failure, from no showing seeds to weak plants with no growth. The few pods I had my son (4) ate them up, I was assured they were yummy though!!
I have started sowing early this year and hope to fill up my freezer with a glut….fingers crossed!!
Lovely boxes, great to be more organised and sort out in the process what is too old to keep.
I look forward to trying a cucamelon. It sounds so good and I’ve never tried them before.
Another thing to look forward to is raspberries. Yummie to have a hanful on the plot.
Growing munchkin pumpkins for the first time this year, so hoping they’ll be a success as they are so cute! 😊
I am most looking forward to growing a cut flower area at my allotment around a bench & my pond so I can sit and remember my Mum who suddenly passed away last year. Would love a seed box to keep all the seed packets in I have accumulated.
I would absolutely love the fantastic seed box so all my seeds with be super organised, this year i looking forward to having another go at Sweetcorn the naughty mice ate mine last year, and Dahlias i love them so beautiful.
I will keep everything crossed.
This will be my 2nd year with an allotment but I already have too many seeds. It would be lovely to own a seed box to help me stay organised 😀
I am really looking forward to growing Cherokee Trail of Tears beans for the first time. I have 10 precious seeds, fingers crossed I successfully grow enough to seed save and eat!
I’m most looking forward to growing sunflowers - the cheeriest of blooms!
Growing peas on the allotment this year and cant wait to taste the first ones picked. Theres nothing better than shelling fresh picked peas & munching them straight away…perhaps the strawberries…or the blueberries…or the sweetcorn…raspberries?
Looking forward to growing my sweet peas which were brilliant last year and I have collected the seeds .I would love the seed box to store not only my bought seeds but those I collect . Flora
That looks a lovely seed box, I would love one in green. I love growing everything on my allotment, but this year I am growing flower sprouts for the first time so I am looking forward to seeing how they do.
Blueberries - are my new treat this year (hopefully) and I’m looking forward to them successfully growing!!
Wow they are gorgeous, I would love a Green one (my favourite colour). Every year I try and grow one new thing, this year it is chickpeas! But overall my most rewarding crop is Patty Pan squashes (yellow and white) I find them so versatile to cook and eat with that they are my go to vegetable each year, so fingers crossed for a bumper crop this year.
Hi, I’m looking forward to growing Butternut Squash as I love using it to make soup!
I’m looking forward to growing Choclo corn for the first time, the giant peruvian type. Also tree collards, which I will receive next week as rooted cuttings. The most exciting thing about having an allotment is getting to grow new stuff every season! Thanks for your blog, I will miss your videos this year
Having just put up my first greenhouse (all by myself!) I’m most looking forward to some homegrown tomatoes. More accurately I’m most looking forward to the smell of them which evokes strong memories of my grandad’s greenhouse as a child. Many hours were spent hiding under his potting bench with a good book, pinching any low hanging fruit within arms reach.
Looking forward to growing celery for the first time .xxxxxx
I’m just beginning this year. Really looking forward to growing onions and Carrots. Not got a lot of space as using my garden but will cram as much in as possible.
A giveaway?! Count me in - can’t wait till I’m picking this year’s crop of runners - it’s the best time of the year!
I’ve got a wonderful variety of purple tomato which I’m very exciting about getting this year. As well as some purple mangetout. Its going to be very purple this summer!
I’m really looking forward to growing and eating my 37 different varieties of tomatoes. Got a bit carried away!
Love this box especially in green, it would be a welcome replacement for my old plastic tub i currently use. I am growing broccoli raab this year for the first time on my allotment, after reading an article by Alys Fowler saying how easy and productive it was. ever tried it before as you don’t really see it in shops here so fingers crossed.
I’m looking forward to growing a range of edible flowers, it’s the first time that I’ve grown any and hope they taste as lovely as the pictures of them on the seed packets.
I thoroughly enjoy reading your blog, and it’s been great reading what other followers are looking forward to growing - I’ll definitely be looking up some of their suggestions and seeing if it’s not too late to sow some myself. Truly inspirational - thank you Katie.
I’m looking forward to my asparagus, my tayberries, and my first attempt at tenderstem broccoli ❤️
I’m growing lots of pumpkins this year and donating them for carving to the local residential/nursing home for clients with advanced dementia 😁
I can’t wait to grow my peas. I love how the tendrils climb :).
Lovely giveaway I can’t wait to see my alliums flower. I’ve never grown them before but have always admired them. I’m also looking forward to seeing my Lupins which I think may be one of my all time favourites x
There’s too many to choose from!! I always love growing tomatoes and mange tour, but excited to try some different things this year like butternut squash and parsnips.
That box is beautiful! It is my first year growing all of our veggies from seed instead of plug plants from the garden centre and that is thanks to your YouTube videos!! I am most looking forward to seeing how the peppers grow and hopefully we will have a good harvest by the end of summer.
What a beautiful seed box! I never thought I’d say those words! I’m very excited to see my lettuces growing this year and also my sweet peas-their scent always reminds me of my grandma, who grew them every year and had vases of them all over the house! x
What a gorgeous box. I am a beginner gardener and it’s my first year of trying to grow seeds but I am looking forward to seeing my Polka Dot Cornflowers grow and hopefully bloom, fingers crossed.
I would love a grey one! It will go great in my new she’d we are building this summer!
I have a mountain of seeds and it’s so hard to choose one thing I’m looking forward to growing!
I’n really excited about how the soft fruit section is going to do this year on my allotment! Hopefully we’ll get a bumper crop from the bushes already there and that the be plants thrive a develop well!
Thanks for sharing a great post and giveaway!
Helen
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Lovely box, especially the green! Not growing too much this year as baby number two due in a June so will have my hands full. I am excited to take the opportunity to use the veg patch space to try growing pumpkins for the first time though! 😊
I got the call on Friday offering us our very first allotment!! I find out today which plot it is….so I am looking forward to growing ANYTHING!! It is SO exciting
What a perfect seed box, would beat the tatty parcel box I’m currently using. I’m looking forward to see the love lies bleeding ( Amaranthus caudatus)seedlings i planted last month grow into bushy green plants with long red tassels which I hope to cut and bring in doors to dry 🙏🏻. such tiny tiny seeds I’ll be amazed if I’m successful but that’s the excitement of gardening.
I love the green colour seed box. This year I am looking forward to starting a flower patch and want to grow some sweet peas.
Love the box, I’m using an I cream tin at the moment! I am most looking forward to growing my salad bar, just ready for lunch or dinner, whenever I need it.
I moved into a rented house in east London with a very unloved garden, and after a bout of severe depression last year gardening really helped me recover. I’ve since cleared the weeds and debris and uncovered a lovely urban garden. I’m excited about my veg patch (made from an old bench), but the plant I’m most excited about growing is Larkspur, as they remind me of my mum. She always grew them in our garden in Devon when I was a child and I love their majestic spears of colour.
I love the green seed box, and like you I love to be organised! I’m looking forward to growing sweet peas and can’t wait for their vibrant colours and fragrance to fill my garden.
I’m so excited for my first harvest of potatoes and patty pans !! I live right on the coast so it can get pretty windy here. I would love a green seed box just like yours
I’m most looking forward to the tulips that I’ve grown all opening followed by my first dahlias - the beginnings of my cut flower beds 😍
I took on a really overgrown plot in October and am now looking forward to my first growing season, and first time growing anything ever! So excited! I’m really looking forward to growing sweet corn - can’t wait to grill the cobs straight from harvest, yum
I’m most looking forward to growing mini sweet corn!! A first for me
I’m most excited for my pom pom dahlias, I was inspired to grow them by my allotment neighbour who had an amazing display last year! I’m also looking forward to my strawberries, I’m trying a new variety which are supposed to taste like cherries x
I’m most looking forward to advancing my small medicinal garden beyond sage, thyme, and lavender. This year’s additions will be comfrey, calendula, chamomile, lemon balm, marigold, and oregano. In Michigan (UAA) growing a few of these plants may take extra TLC-should be an adventure!
I’m most excited about my tomatoes this year! we are trying two varieties, Gardener’s Ecstasy and Ruby. Delicious
Oooooh……the green seed box is dreamy!
Very hard with an allotment to choose just one thing I’m looking forward to growing this season, sweet peas are a favourite for the beautiful scent and delicate flowers x
Curly kale! My fave veg, can’t wait to stop having to buy it and start harvesting my own. Love this box, great colour! Kerry
Definitely kale! First time growing it, but always wanted to try
I’m hoping for some decent cauliflowers later on and my first crop of blackcurrants for my jam! Good luck with your growing. x
I am mostly looking forward to our strawberries… they didn’t do much last year so hoping there will be plenty this year. Love the seed box in green so stylish… would be a lovely treat for the allotment
Most looking forward to growing anything that i dont ruin!
Green would be great.
I’m looking forward to my tomatoes, raspberries and strawberries. Loved by all the family.
Oooh that box is lovely. I am most looking forward to growing a new variety of courgette this year, a yellow round variety. Hopefully I get a good crop. Xx
I’m most looking forward to growing Sweetcorn!
We moved house this year and are working hard to uncover the badly neglected Victorian garden. We have a big family and desperately want to increase our veg intake by growing it ourselves. The thing we’re all looking forward to most is growing our own salads and also zinnias, which I adore! Would love a box to keep our growing collection of seeds safe.
Hi Katie! What a wonderful seed box you have made. It pretty, handy and much more beautiful than my plastic ones. I’m really looking forward to try it soon in my new house. My friend has recently started a venture Offer Parade where people can showcase their stuff and then customers can buy the items after bidding. You should post such items here http://www.offerparade.com. Thank you for sharing.