Gardening Gifts Advent Calendar

Gardening Gifts Advent Calendar 2026: 25 seed varieties behind 25 doors

The Gardening Gifts Advent Calendar 2026 swaps the usual festive chocolate for something you plant. Behind its 25 doors sit 25 gift-wrapped paper packs of heirloom vegetable, herb and salad seeds, one surprise a day in the run-up to Christmas. It isn’t a calendar you finish on Christmas Day and recycle: the seeds go in the ground through the year that follows.

The box comes with a few things to make a show of it. A seed sack to keep every pack together once the doors are open, a grow guide, 5 metres of twine and 25 wooden clips to peg the packs up as a display. It’s plastic-free and vegan, lovingly packed by hand here in the UK.

What’s inside the Gardening Gifts advent calendar

Twenty-five seed varieties, and that’s the heart of it. The mix spans vegetables, salads and herbs, all heirloom seeds rather than hybrids, which means you can save seed from a good crop and sow it again next year. The paper packs are the whole point of the eco pitch: no foil wells, no plastic trays, nothing that outlives the calendar by a few minutes. Alongside the seeds you get the seed sack, grow guide, twine and 25 wooden clips, the practical kit for sowing and for pegging the packs into a kitchen display.

The detailed variety list sits in the SPOILER tab.

Does it earn its keep after December?

This is the real test for a gifting calendar, and it’s where the Gardening Gifts box pulls ahead of most. A chocolate calendar is gone by Boxing Day. Here, the 25 packs carry on working for months: herbs on a windowsill in late winter, salads and veg sown out as spring warms up. Divide the £24.99 launch price across the 25 varieties and each pack lands at around £1, which is roughly what a single branded seed packet costs in a garden centre, before you count the sack, the twine and the clips. For a keen grower that’s fair; for someone who has never sown a seed, the value depends entirely on whether the packs get opened and planted rather than filed in a drawer.

How it compares to last year

This is a like-for-like reissue of the previous edition: same box, same 25 seed varieties, same seed sack, grow guide, 5 metres of twine and 25 wooden clips, packed by hand in the UK as before. Nothing about the contents has changed. What moves year to year is the price, now £24.99, so the thing worth checking against last season is simply whether that figure has crept up, not what’s in the box.

My verdict on the Gardening Gifts Advent Calendar 2026

What I like first is the honesty of the idea. It does one thing, it does it plainly, and there’s no marketing fog over what you’re getting: 25 seed packs, a sack, some twine and clips. The plastic-free, vegan, UK-packed credentials aren’t a bolt-on here, they’re the product.

Where it asks something of you is the follow-through. As I’d put it, ‘a chocolate calendar rewards you in December; this one rewards you in July, if you actually sow the seeds’. That’s the catch worth being honest about. Someone who already grows will get real use from 25 heirloom varieties at about £1 each. Someone buying it as a novelty, with no intention of digging a bed, is paying for a gesture that needs effort to pay off. Gift it to a gardener, not to a gardening idea, and it’s one of the more thoughtful £25 calendars around.

Where to buy the Gardening Gifts Advent Calendar 2026

You can buy the Gardening Gifts Advent Calendar through the retailer linked at the top of this page. There are no discount codes at the time of writing. Compare the current offers in the box above before you order.

• Doors: 25
• Contents: 25 heirloom seed varieties, seed sack, grow guide, 5m twine, 25 wooden clips
• Credentials: plastic-free, vegan, hand-packed in the UK