How about a seed and plant exchange?

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Following on from our last post, we were wondering if others would be interested in exchanging plant materials or seeds. We certainly couldn't do worse than the professionals given the rhubarb we just received. We have Jerusalem artichokes to exchange for sweet rhubarb. We also save tomato seeds (Brandywine, Paul Robeson, Striped German, German Green, Debarao and more...). We'd also like some good horseradish. Anyone interested?

If there is a lot of interest in exchanges of this kind, maybe we could make a regular thread and a dedicated category for this?

-- Anonymous, April 14, 2001

Answers

I have a lot of seeds for various medicinal herbs that I collected during my apprenticeship last summer. They were all grown on an organic herb farm in southern Indiana. I can pull them out and make a list of what I have if anyone is interested. I'm not going to have the space to plant them, so I'd love to pass them along to someone who can use them.

-- Anonymous, April 15, 2001

I think this is a GREAT idea!

I've got quite a few seeds of various open-pollinated & heirloom tomato seeds - things like "Lisa King" tomato or "Kelloggs Breakfast Tomato". When I get a chance I'll list them all here.

I would be happy to create a new category, I could call it something like "Seed/Plant Exchange". Does that sound good or does anybody have any other suggestions for a category name?

-- Anonymous, April 15, 2001


I love this idea. David and Kim, I have good horseradish and will send you a start if you send me your snail mail address. I am a "bean saver". Save all sorts or heirloom beans and some tomatoes. Maybe we should all list what we have to share???

-- Anonymous, April 15, 2001

Hm, I have alot of stuff that I could share, but I'm not real sure on how to prepare them for the postal journey, does any one have some clues on this. Let me see I got lots of motherwort, wormwood, catnip,comfrey, different kinds of mints to name a few.

-- Anonymous, April 16, 2001

Ok you all finally suckered me in to posting.Yeah I've been lurking!

I've been exchanging seeds all over the country for abt 5 years now. Here's my list- all are O.P. and most are heirlooms.

For mailing seeds, get coin envelopes and use a piece of bubble wrap to protect the seeds in the envelope.Send small quantities for the most part,unless someone wants otherwise.The idea is to give someone the opportunity to try something new and save seeds from it.If you don't bubble wrap them,the P.O. will crush the bigger ones. You can mail abt 10 pkgs for 55 cents.

Yes this really is me and yes I know this email address is no longer valid.I no longer post with an active one.Don't want to get any more surprises.So instead, leave a message here for me and I'll email you back.

And,diane, I have forgotten what beans we were talking about.

David,I do need Jerusaleum artichokes.My horse eats them like candy. What he misses the deer eat up for me.Can't get ahead of them.I guess I'm the only one around who doesn't have that particular sunflower become invasive!

Here’s my list.Hope this copies OK. See if there is something we can trade. Quantities are small, a pinch of smaller seeds, or 20 or so larger seeds .All my own seed and they have been properly isolated. I wait til I receive your seeds if I have not traded with you before. I have been trading for a few years now, and honor my trades, but there are always those very few people don’t.Hard to believe people would be that petty,but then after the CS forum experience,I guess not that hard to believe after all.Guess I've just been hiding out on the farm too long.I don't hang around people enough to see the dark side, all that much. I've forgotten alot.

Seeds I have to trade-I think I still have all these.

Vegetables:

Brandywine Tomato Cayenne Pepper Moon & Stars Watermelon Sugar Lump Cherry Tomato Kishinev Pepper Jenny Lynn Muskmelon Principe Borghese Drying Tomato Anaheim Chili Pepper Baby Red Hubbard Squash Oregon Spring Tomato Little Marvel Peas Winter Crookneck Squash Yellow Pear Tomato Greasy Bean Sugar Pie Pumpkin Homestead Tomato Brown Yardlong Bean Delicatia Squash Amish Paste Tomato Godwins Butter Bean Lemon Cuke Mini Blue Popcorn Black Turtle Bean Boothbys Blonde Cuke Double Standard Sweet Corn Peanut Butter Bean Poinsett Cuke Crown of Thorns Gourd Egg Gourd Mixed Hardshells Corsican Bowl Gourd Mini Bottle Gourd

Herbs-Everlastings-dye Flowers:

Lime Basil Thai Basil Lemon Basil Cinnamon Basil Salad Burnet Calendula Mixed Lambs Ear Shoefly Plant Love-in-a-mist Fenugreek Anise Hyssop Monardia Media Flat Leaf Parsley Garlic Chives Alpine Strawberry Mammoth Long Island Dill Job’s Tears Love-Lies-bleeding Golden Marguarite Goldenball Feverfew Rue Whiteball Feverfew Woad Red Broomcorn Goldengem Singet Marigold Garlic Chives White Broomcorn

Heirloom Flowers:

Rose Campion Money Plant Foxglove- Excelsior Orange Cosmos Old Vining Petunia Blackberry lily Blackeye-susan-vine-thunbergia Blue Columbine Sweet William Catchfly Emma’s Mix old Morning Glorys Rose Sweet William Woodland Tobacco Hollyhock Outhouse Mix Ferny Cypress Vine Pink Musk Mallow Mexican Sunflower Dwarf Stock Dwarf Icelandic Poppy

Seeds I Want (or let me know your favorites and I’ll see if they work for me)

Vegetables:

Longhandle Dipper Gourd African Kettle Gourd Apple Gourd Turks Turban Squash Bushel Gourd Tommy Toe Tomat Tahitian Squash Ice Cream Watermelon Calypso Bean Bitter Melon Rouge-Vie-d’etampes Pumpkin Snake Gourd Wild Leeks Large Purple Streaked Goose Bean Black Valentine Bean White Cushaw Squash Redheart Pimento Pepper Santa Claus Melon Case knife bean Hullless Seed Squash Black Scarlet Runner Bean Genuine cornfield bean Mccaslan bean Calypso bean

Herbs:

Varigated or Purple Sage Purple Angelica Corsican Mint Pineapple Mint Monarda Fistulosa Monarda Punctata Cumin Caraway Lavender Lemon Thyme Munstead or Hicote Silver Thyme Horseradish Monarda Citrodora Rosemary-arp or Salem Ladys Mantle Scented Geraniums Artemesia Silverking Stevia Orris Root Grey Santolina

Flowers:

Cupids Dart Gladiolus Byzantine Perennial Sunflower Zinnia Thumbalina Dwarf Strawflower Evening Stock Cosmo Sonata Mix Moonflower Vine Pink Gas Plant Nematocidal Marigold Purple Monkshood Russian Sage Blue Baloon Flower Stoke’s Aster Lycoris Hardy Begonia Pink Epimedium Hopi Dye Sunflower Baths Pink or Firewitch Turk’s Cap Lily Dianthus Fall Anemone-Pink Didicus Sea Holly Gomphrena Strawberry Fields Gomphrena Buddy Johnny Jump Up Blue Lungwort Digitalis Lutea Zinnia Angustifolia Maximillian Sunflower

Wildflowers I Want:

Wild Pinks Fire Pink Rattlesnake Master Narrowleaf Coneflower Gauria Biennis Bottle Gentian Western Sunflower Culvers Root Purple Praire Clover American Pennyroyal Native Monkshood Woodmint(b.Ciliata) Poppy Mallow(c. papaver) Chelone Glabra-Pink Turtlehead Coreopsis Auriculata Nana Monarda Punctata Phlox Pilosa Wild Comphrey Woods Poppy Wild Leeks



-- Anonymous, April 16, 2001



Hi sharon!

Glad to see you made it to the forum and that you decided to "de- lurk".

Welcome, welcome, welcome! :-)

-- Anonymous, April 16, 2001


Hi Sharon, so glad that you made it here and came out of hiding!!! I really did try to call you after you sent me your number but it was always busy. This old life sure does get weird sometimes. Well, I have the calypso and black valentine bean if you want to send me your address I will send them to you. Right now I think I have started way more than I will ever hope to care for this year so maybe something later. Let me know - in love - diane

-- Anonymous, April 16, 2001

Hi Sharon, We'd be happy to send you some J. Artichokes. Send us an email with your address and we will get them off. They have just started to come up but these things are so resilient I don't think I could kill them. I fed them to our pigs lastyear but I didn't try them on the sheep.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience with Countryside. So far everyone here has been very nice! We really are enjoying this forum.

Kim

-- Anonymous, April 16, 2001


NOTE: My seed is limited so I may have to severely limit the number of seeds I send you if I get too many requests...

Tomatoes:

Prairie Fire
Intensely red, 3 to 5 oz. tomatoes on very short, bushy plants light up the garden, earning this variety its name. Its full flavor is tangy yet nicely balanced with sweetness and is superior to many cold weather tomatoes. Very productive plants give a large crop early in the season. This variety is a result of a cross between Sub Arctic and a beefsteak tomato. Determinate.
55 days

Hilltop
Strong, sturdy plants offer good support for the large harvests of big, 10 to 12 oz. firm red fruit. Tomatoes are meaty, uniformly red and very flavorful with a good balance of sugar and acid. This tomato stood out in our trials as an excellent producer of very high quality, good-tasting fruit. Vigorous determinate.
75 days.

Lisa King
Large, 8 to 10 oz. red tomatoes really load up on short vines and are resistant to cracking and blossom end rot. Fruit is firm and smooth and full of old-fashioned tomato flavor. Great tomato for canning as well as eating fresh. Determinate.
75-80 days

Goliath
Appropriately named, this variety does bear giant fruit. Strong, vigorous plants yield large to huge red fruit with the classic beefsteak shape and flavor. Tomatoes are solid with few seeds. It is not unusual for fruit to become a mammoth 3 lbs. This is an heirloom variety grown since the late 1800’s. Indeterminate.
85 days.

Bush Beefsteak
Compact, bushy plants are vigorous and yield an abundance of rich red, solid fruit that average 8 oz. each. Popular in the North. Determinate.
62 days.

Mule Team
A great choice for a "main crop," all-purpose tomato. Vigorous plants bear plenty of 8 ounce round, bright red tomatoes with excellent flavor and texture. Not only are harvests very abundant, but production continues right up until frost. Heirloom variety. Indeterminate.
80 days.

Paragon Livingston
Indeterminate. This antique variety was introduced by Livingston Seed Co. in 1870 and was used by the canning industry as well as by home gardeners. It is still worthwhile today for its very high yields of 8 to 10 oz. smooth, good-flavored tomatoes. Fruit is slightly flattened and bright red with real old-fashioned tomato taste.
80 to 85 days

Manitoba
Determinate. 6 1/2 oz. brick-red tomatoes are smooth and slightly flattened in shape. Extremely productive and very early variety developed in Manitoba, Canada.
60 days.

Isis Candy
Indeterminate. This variety produces yellow-gold cherry tomatoes with red marbling. Marbling varies from just a red blush to extensive steaking inside and out. What is consistent, however, is the sweet taste that is also rich and fruity, and very delicious. Tomatoes are about 1 inch across and are round to oblate in shape. Very productive plants bear throughout a long season.
67 days.

Pineapple Tomato
Indeterminate. This heirloom tomato is a standout in everyone's garden. Bicolored red and yellow fruit grows very large, up to 2 lbs., and is streaked with red both inside and out. The flavor is wonderful - rich, fruity and sweet. Strong vines bear an abundant crop.
85 days.

Peppers:

Giant Aconcagua
A pepper with flavor as sweet as apples. Delicious in salads, stuffed, stir-fried, or roasted and peeled. Oblong fruit grows up to 11-in. long and can weigh as much as 12 oz. Best when picked at the light green stage, although it does ripen to red.
70 days.

-Jim
prism@bevcomm.net

-- Anonymous, April 16, 2001


David and Kim - e-mail me your snail mail addy in a fast hurry and I will send you some small rhubarb plants - a lady friend of Pop's has a 20 foot row that she wants to get rid of and we've already moved a bunch out here. Can't swear that it is sweet rhubarb, but we have some red and I think some green also.

I don't want anything in trade, but if anyone has some blue speckled pole lima seed, I wouldn't mind having a few. These cook up to a bright lavendar. I bought some seed at a flea market years ago, but lost them over the years.

-- Anonymous, April 16, 2001



I would love to participate in a seed/plant/flower/bulb/rhizome/etc exchange. I'm afraid my list is much more meager than some, but I'll try to get the full list posted tonight.

Off the top of my head: mortage lifter tomatoe caspian pink tomatoe moon and starts watermelon true seeds for a pear my grandmother called "blush pear" (lg sweet) black seeded simpson lettuce purple leaf plum some commen lilac seed black eyed susan flower greystripe sunflower new zealand spinach

available later naked lady (aka surprise)lily snowdrop bulbs yellow and purple iris divisons commen daffodil

Peace and happy gardening too all!

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2001


#@%%&***! e-mail program! Can't get it to go out (either that, or I've sent you about 6 messages this morning!) So....

Kim - rhubarb is packed and will be on the way as soon as I go into town this morning. Hope they do okay for you - Pop says they look green but are red. I've already got more things to plant than I have time or space right now, but thanks for the offer - please do pass 'em on elsewhere. Ain't it neat to be able to send someone a smile!?

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2001


Diane-I'll email you.Prob not til the weekend as I'm swamped this week.

Kim- ditto. Let me know what you want and I'll set it aside.I figure abt three or four packs of seed per plant or root or tuber so figure on that ratio, if that is suitable to you?

Jim -thanks for the welcome and DO NOT post those tomatoes to tempt me.Nick said last year if anyone sent me any more tomatoes,he would have to kill them.I had 12 varieties then. I have 18 I have to fit in the garden somewhere this year.Please don't tell him! The life you save may be your own.

Oh yeah,in case you don't know I have a sardonic wit....one that sometimes gets me in hot,deep,water.Ah well, some like it hot,and I'm a not a bad swimmer,either. Good thing.

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2001


There you are, Sharon! Yay! I'm gonna call you one of these evenings, really, I am!

Now, I have to go read the lists again and see if there's anything I am dying to try . . .

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2001


I've traded seeds for over 10 years now,been in a few round robins, had a few of my own until too many people started to loose the boxes. But I do still enjoy swapping seeds and plants..I have a huge list, most are herbs also lots of unusual edibles..I am a seed collector for SBE...I've also collected for J.L.Hudson Seedsmen.............. I live in San Diego County,California..And have a license to sell nursery stock in the county...so invite those of you with-in my area to drop buy and take a look at my plants...I will sell or trade my plants..As for seeds,some I'll offer for a SASE with 2 first class stamps...anyone wishing to view my list please email me...Linda

-- Anonymous, June 19, 2001


Ping, ping, ping just now. I have Zinnia seeds if anyone wants some, I have a lot of them. My Zinnias in the garden are just now blooming! They are excellent for attracting beneficial insects to the garden. I have tons of other seeds saved but I am not as good as you guys at labeling them, I don't know the names of them.

-- Anonymous, June 21, 2001

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