Inside the Seed Studio: Designing My Own Seed Packets

There's a particular kind of satisfaction in opening a drawer and finding seeds you saved yourself — but the little envelopes always looked like an afterthought. Scrawled biro on a fold of paper. So I built a studio to fix that.

Peas & Quiet — Seed Studio is a single-page tool that lives right in the browser. No accounts, no cloud, just a workbench for turning a handful of saved seeds into something worth keeping on a shelf.

Three modes, one workbench

The studio has three things it knows how to make, switchable from the top of the screen:

• Seed Stickers — round, oval, arch, or rectangular labels in a few standard sizes (40/50/60mm rounds, 76×38 and 102×51 rectangles). Two finishes: a wax-seal badge style and a cleaner apothecary look.
• Seed Packets — full envelopes sized for sowing, ready to print, fold, and fill.
• Almanac — profile cards that hold the lore: sowing depth, spacing, days to harvest, the things you always forget by next spring.

The plant library

Down the left side is a grid of hand-drawn crops to start from — peas, beans, kale, lettuce, carrots, radish, courgette, squash, pumpkin, tomato, chilli, basil, asparagus, spring onion. Pick one and the studio pulls in its illustration and a sensible starting layout, then everything is yours to edit.

Made for the printer, not the feed

The whole point is the paper at the end. Every design exports as a PNG or drops straight onto a print sheet laid out for an A4 page, so a morning at the kitchen table turns into a year's worth of labels.

It's a small thing. But there's something quietly lovely about reaching for a jar in February and finding a proper little packet — peas, and quiet — waiting for spring.

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