okay here it is.
this thread is to be used for trading/giving etc. of garden seeds.
put up what you need or have and claim it etc. here.
it's up to the giver to decide who get's what.
no whining..........especially to me :lol:
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okay here it is.
this thread is to be used for trading/giving etc. of garden seeds.
put up what you need or have and claim it etc. here.
it's up to the giver to decide who get's what.
no whining..........especially to me :lol:
I am looking to trade red soft neck and/or elephant garlic for music garlic.....dale
Would like some pablano pepper seeds , mine are on 3rd generation and never did as well tasted as rich as I thought they should...have lots to trade...to much to post here but lots of peppers, 'maters, squash , pumpkins, erbs, greens, beets, lots.....
Willing to give/ trade seeds and advice on gardening especially seed saving and seed banks. Food independence is a must for any truly free people!
we have lots of "winter" squash, it keeps all winter. spaghetti, long island, butternut, pumpkin.
If my acorn squash come in well I should have a bunch of heirloom seeds. Only variety I planted this year in the main garden. I put another variety of acorn squash 100 feet away so they shouldn't cross breed(I hope!). Will have lots of San Marzano seeds too(I put in 20 plants!!) because I use a ton of tomato sauce in cooking. My kale is seeding out but I don't remember the variety... it was very hardy and survived the winter in Minnesota though! I dug down to it and picked kale in January!
I garden every year. I would love to receive seeds from Nagantguy, MaryB, and Rancher1913.
Nagantguy - 'maters, squash , pumpkins, erbs, greens, beets
MaryB - San Marzano tomatoes and acorn squash
Rancher1913 - spaghetti, long island, butternut, pumpkin
My garden is small. It is divided into six areas in and around my yard. We mostly grow tomatoes with some squash and cucumbers. We usually buy plants. This year we did some experiments.
Some tomatoes with "grow caps" planted early. Squash plants and squash seeds (All plants from seeds were eaten within days! We suspect earwigs!)
This year the weather was very strange. The tomatoes in the "grow caps" were in the ground much longer than we expected to need them. The weather always had a one week forecast of below 50 degrees in the coming week so the "grow caps" stayed on for a month rather than the week or two we expected. When the "grow caps" came off, we planted more tomatoes. We seem to have gone from "cold" to "hot" instantly! Under 50 to over 90. Most of our tomatoes are Rutgers which we love for eating. They are also good for canning and sauce/paste. We did our first canning last year. We intend to can more this year. We want to can each weekend they are ripening.
We want to learn how to save seeds. We have "Seed to Seed" to help us learn.
i will have a 2nd generation landrace winter squash this fall, crossed with hubbard and guatamalan blues, very sweet, large, vigerous and good keeper. if crop comes in will have sacks of seeds to give away.
Brass, for most all garden pests a pump up sprayer filler with coffee and hot sauce of your choosing sprayed liberally on the plants at night seems to work well, we have a real.slug problem, the hot sauce burns their skin, the coffee speeds up their heart to fatal levels. Seems to work for horn worms, cucumber beetles and repels birds, some delicate leaves may get lightly stained buy the coffee but I've never had it harm anything, the caffeine is good for the tomatoes. You can wash it off when you pick or have a nice spicy pick me up at dinner time!!!. Seems to deter voles as well I think it hurts their feet and noses.
I do not have anything to contribute yet...but since this looks so much fun I'm going to plant all heirlooms next year and start saving seeds myself. My "volunteer" garden at the compost pile is still growing gangbusters even with all this rain. Found 3 new tomato plants had sprouted and already got some little green ones, and some pumpkins are almost ready surprisingly. No clue what they came from, but hope they taste good.
Once this rain gets sorted out I may plow everything up and put down some okra.
i should have some Kale seeds shortly from 2 plants that made it through the winter. I think the microclimate here puts me in zone 4a, most of the area is zone 2-3a so I think I'm must be getting near a banana belt.
brass, if you want a crash course in garden to jar canning stop by sometime, my wife likes showing short cuts and production canning. our garden is normal size this year, about 3 or 4 acres.
Anyone interested in reviving this old thread since garden season is basically upon us?
I am looking for hot peppers. Id be happy to pay or glad for someone to point me to some suggested peppers and a pervayor.
https://www.rareseeds.com/
I got some chocolate tomato seeds from them earlier this year.
Those chocolate tomatoes from them were pretty tasty! I had 8 plants of them growing. They are also my main seed source. If you are a lettuce fan this one is super tasty https://www.rareseeds.com/tom-thumb-lettuce/ and slow to bolt for me. Grew more like a leaf lettuce but I am still planting a bunch again this year. I need to check seeds, I may have a bunch extra of that lettuce... I let it go to seed last year and got a lot of seed. Used some this winter growing it in my bay window for fresh greens.
I planted a bush type green okra , it grows about 42 inches high and 42 inches in diameter, not tall and skinny like most okra . Green foliage , yellow flowers with pods that will quickly get 8 inches long.
Heavy producer . Some days I couldn't get out to cut it (rain) and the pods became too big and tough .
I'm letting them mature for seeds. I'm going to need only about 12 seeds... I sprout them in water and plant sprouted seed in the bed and will only need 6 plants for myself. Each dried pod will contain a good 50 seeds. I should have about 500 seeds to give away.
I know okra isn't the most popular vegetable but it is good fried and makes a good Gumbo and is as easy to grow as poison ivy . So if you would like some Green Bush Okra Seeds , PM for my address and send me a stamped , self addressed envelope , you will get you a packet of 25 seeds ( or 2 packets if you want ). Might be fun if you've never grown okra .... I can't think of anything easier to grow and simply slice the okra pods into a freezer bag , keep in the freezer until you need them for gumbo...that's easy !
Gary
I used to have alot of heirloom seeds back when. Most of them are gone for one reason or another. I coulda lived without a portion of them, or started over to get them again.
The best dad blamed corn for cornmeal and cornbread I ever had were left over from my great grandad. The old paper bag they originally came out of said "#9 yeller dent" and had a price of "3lb 37¢" on it from the old Co-oP in a nearby town. About twenty years ago a critter managed to bust the old ball mason jar I had 'em and their offspring stored in, and ate 'em up. Now I have people tell me there never was a #9 Yellow Dent corn.... *sigh*
God Bless, and One Love.
GoodOlBoy
GoodOlBoy, Don't you believe what them Ya-Hoo's are telling you...Of course Yellow Dent Corn existed and in fact ....it still exists. You can get Yellow Dent Corn Seed from Sustainable Seed Company, Southern Exposure .com , Urban Farmer....just do a google search on the term
"#9 Yellow Dent Seed Corn". It's also referred to as Reid's Yellow Dent Corn.... Robert Reid developed it in 1847, his son , James Reid worked on improving it from 1870 to 1900, even though it's not called #9 , I would bet money it's the same corn .
Those were just the first three places that popped up ...there were three more companies just on the first page....there has been a slight change....1 pound of seed is now $12.00 !!!
Gary
Thanks Gary. $12 a pound, my great grandad would have had a stroke, and a conniption both :p If I'm up to doin' a garden come spring, I might just have to spring for some. With all the deer and coon around here I doubt I'll get an ear to take to a gristmill, but it might be fun to chase 'em for the heck of it. Put out some purple hulls for good measure so I can have peas 'n cornbread! Now to find some bacon on the hoof, can't have peas 'n cornbread without bacon in the peas... oh and some garlic and onion, but wouldn't take much to build a garlic and onion bed again. Might even do some shallots. :p
God Bless, and One Love.
GoodOlBoy
I grew okra again this year . See post #17 ...this year I have grown the green bush okra and red okra . The red okra is tall , with red and greenish stems , leaves and red okra pods a burgandy color the flowers are a bright yellow...good looking plant .
Again, anyone wanting seeds, send me a long stamped self addressed envelope and I will send them to you , red , green or both . Save them for next years planting . Soak in water and plant sprouted seeds . Okra is about as hard to grow as weeds...that's why I do it ...and I like okra and shrimp gumbo .
No body requested seeds last year...I guess I'm the only one who grows it but I save seeds every year and replant from them .
PM for my mailing address
Gary
I grow the red red okra, and save the seed. I try and plant early and save the earliest pods for seed, as there is less chance of someone's green okra crossing with it!
I'm saving a bunch of Green Bush Okra seeds to give away . If you would like some just send me a stamped self addressed envelope and I will send them , PM for my mailing address and let me know how many okra plants you want to grow . I send 2X + extra seeds in case some don't sprout .
These bush okra plants grow about 52 inches tall and produce lots of okra...I'm still cutting pods and it's still making flowers for more .
I cut the okra off the plant , slice it into a gallon freezer bag and it will stay good over a year frozen . It's the easiest vegetable to put up and not many pests bother it ...almost like growing a weed !
The 4 bushes I planted have produce five 1-gallon bags of sliced frozen okra and that includes one big pot of shrimp and okra gumbo cooked already and I'm starting another bag tomorrow.
Gary
GW, do you top that Bush okra? I ask, because I top my red okra when it's chest high. Then it puts out side shoots to really put on the pods!
No , I just plant both types tall red type and bush green type and let nature take it's course .
The bush type okra sends out side plants from down low , I do trim the spent old limbs off and new sections come up and take the old ones places...it sort of self tops .
PM me if you would like some free green bush seeds ... I got plenty .
Gary
I will have Trinidad scorpion pepper seeds this fall if anybody sees fit! (Red Cardi)
I quit gardening a few years ago. I figured that the last batch of tomatoes I harvested cost me $300 a pound. Didn't even get two pounds. I believe I have a black thumb. Grandma had a green thumb. Somehow, I kill plants. (except that it doesn't work on weeds.)
Last year I planted some of the seeds saved from 2019 , the year I planted Green Bush Okra next to Tall Red Okra ... Low and Behold I got a couple cross overs ... a low green bush with reddish tinges and out the middle a tall red stalk . The low bush part made mostly green okra pods and the tall stalk made mostly red okra pods ... but you could tell ... some bee had done a cross pollination job .
The first to request Okra Seeds since we started this was fellow member curdog up in Southern Illinois !!!... I sent him some of both tall red and green bush ... and I bet some hybrids are in there . You don't know what crossed untill you plant it ... Then It's ... Surprise !
Gary
Gary thanks again for the seed. We will see what it does when it warms up it is 42 degrees here this morning........................Curdog
We usually got stuff planted by now.
Anyone have any Northern suited heirloom mater seeds?
My cat knocked mine over this year... lost them all... I can check with a friend and see if she has any extras. She only grows heirlooms or heirloom hybrids(she developed one that I need seeds for, an orange tomato that is super sweet and meaty...).
Anyone run into gold raspberry plants locally this year yet? I think I had a fall gold. It must have got crowed out of and dies last year. I had black, red and gold together. Read not to grow Red or Gold next black. They’ve been going strong for years until last year. I just weeded out the old dead growth from the last couple years yesterday. It looks pretty sparse now. I also had a “junk berry” raspberry bush take over a few years ago I dug up so I have room. It had weird stems that looked like a start shape and put off berries that looked like wild black caps that grown on my hunting property. Figured I’d ask if anyone has seen them available at Home Depot, Menards, Walmart,ext. I checked locally and nothing but the normal reds. Walmart had a pink colored one I’ll have to check and see what it was again. Think I might have some ground cherry, delicata,and extra winter squash seeds I gutted from my crops last year. I always wanted to try the purple rooted plant they use for purple bread in Hawaii. Don’t remember what it was. I remember they grow extremely tall and take up way to much space.
I haven't been looking because I can't eat them (diverticulosis) and have no room anyway.
Looks like the Easter bunny is bringing me 3, two year old, bare root Anne golden raspberry plants. See what happens when you still believe! Lol. I’ll have to research the procedure on planting bare root raspberry plants. I’ve don’t with roses but don’t know it it’s the same way.
Never fails, drove by Home depot today and they had 5 fall gold raspberry plants. I called last week and I was told they NEVER get them in. Two out of the 5 total plants in stock had green buds and leaf growth. I bought the bigger of the two. I will plant it along with my 3 bare Root Anne golds once it warms up enough to do so. I just potted my 3 bare root Anne's in the house to get them going. Going to drop to 30 tonight. Better not kill my fruit buds on the trees.
I don't have anything to trade but, would be willing to pay for some horseradish roots to try and get some started. I don't know if it will grow in Florida but, would sure like to try.