Anyone interested in seed swaps/exchanges? I plan on starting to save seeds from my open pollinated plants this year and sharing the excess. My mother and I do this and I love it. She occasionally sends me tubers/bulbs and seeds from her garden. This year she sent me some cucumber seeds from Egypt (a friend of hers brought some back from a trip there)!
The kinds of plants I have that I can get seeds from are: (don't ask me what variety they are, don't know)
*columbine, several sizes and colors, including tiny white ones and tall blue ones, some medium purple, etc.
*oriental poppy, not sure of color
*red raspberries, yes you can grow 'em from seed!
*a rugosa rose, smallish and bushy, with wildly fragrant pink roses...I'll have to research how to gather and preserve rose seeds, but my bush makes lovely hips, I think.
*any veggies that I decide to grow this year
I don't trust my fruit tree's seeds, I think they're all hybrids.
The bulbs I can seperate and send are:
*irises, yellow and blue if I remember
*daylilies, yellow (they're lovely)
*elephant garlic
It'll be a few years before the daffodils and tulips need to be thinned.
I even have digitals of some of these, I have to fiddle with them before I can post them, though, file size is too big.
Anyone interested? Anyone? Bueller?





In the meantime, if you want to bet that some of them will sprout I've got several varieties:

It had a funky shape, was fairly large, and was almost all flesh, hardly any seeds. It was probably an heirloom variety. I can only remember right now that I think it had an italian name, like Pisa Tomato or something like that. It's driving me nuts.











