Closed!! 2011 Spring Seed Swap

[missred871]

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Where I live we call them May Pops. They bloom in April and May and the little see pods POP when you smash them LOL. They are passion Flowers but they are absolutely gorgeous, though they dont exactly smell pretty!

 

[Stevenson]

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145 days for the pumpkins

 

[happyhappy]

Thanks everyone for the wonderful seeds, what a great selection. My husband and I have decided to take out the lawn in the front to plant the those huge pumpkins seeds!

We don't have alot of area and the backyards is full of chooks and loads of garden and plants already sooo.... anyone need a grass cycling electric lawn mower? To rainy to plant still but have alot of starts already.

Yeah for green!!!!!!!!!

 

[Stevenson]

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LOL I wish you all the best with the pumpkin seeds! Like chickens...they can become addictive! If you have trouble getting the seeds to germinate, let me know...I can send you more. Also, you might want to check out http://www.bigpumpkins.com - it is kinda the backyardchickens of the pumpkin world.

 

[Sumatra503]

I'm back in Oregon finally! I came home to lots of rain, but my garden is well drained and there is absolutely no flooding!! Looks like I'll be able to plant sooner than I thought!!

I have some giant radish seeds to plant that take about 100 days, so those and the pumpkins will have to be planted soon indoors. All the rest take a nice even 60-80 days which is about the length of the hottest part of the summer here and when I say hot I mean about 80*F on average with full sun in both the flower bed and the veggy garden in the back.

I have a 30'x50' garden in the back with a nice green house for tomatoes that is about 10'x20'. The flower bed in the front is 3'x10', so that I can reach all the way across it with no trouble. I have row covers, not so much for the frost as the chickens. They reack havoc on the garden until the plants are about 4" tall, then they don't bother anything.

Chickens don't like radishes, cucumbers, tomatoe vines, carrots, or any other spicy or prickly plant that smells. They love broccoli, califlower, cabbage, lettuce, and other soft or leafy plants. From my experience anyway. As far as flowers if it's deer resistant, then it's chicken resistant too.

 

[paddock36]

Hey Stevenson, my pumpkin seeds are up with two leaves on each one!

 

[babieblues]

My seeds came today

Thank you to everyone for all the great seeds and a BIG THANK YOU to Bockbock for organizing and doing all the work for the swap and for all the extra seeds.
You were right, my husband is very happy with the Money Plant .... he wants me to get it planted right away lol

 

[bockbock2008]

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WHOA!! That took forever!

 

[babieblues]

Yup, welcome to snail mail in rural Saskatchewan lol
Still here in plenty of time. We've got at least a foot of snow on the ground, although it is finally beginning to melt. Seeds start indoors mid April and outdoors late May/Early June.

 

[Carols Clucks]

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo


Today I was out starting to turn some soil, looking at the garden and thinking of what goes where........and looking at the seed catalog.


We need a gourd/squash seed trade! There are some interesting varieties out there, but I really only one a couple of plants out of the whole package of seeds.