From Alex @ The Corner Yard came Black-Seeded Simpson & Iceberg Lettuce. I also received a bit of a surprise with a jar of her homemade apple conserve and a hanging froggy! The conserve tastes great and the frog will find a spot in the spring garden.
From Carol @ Annie's Kitchen Garden came Quadrato Rosso Pepper, Golden California Pepper, Kellogg's Breakfast Tomato, Vanilla Ice Sunflowers & Giant Tetra Snapdragons.
Today brought a package from Thomas @ A Growing Tradition. He sent Minutina, which is a hardy green and Italian Red of Florence Scallions. He also included a very nice card.Again many thanks to everyone that has traded seeds with me so far this season :-)
Why are people changing the setting on their blogs lately? When I'm forced to click to your site to read a post I get irritated. Then I unsubscribe.I know I'm not alone :(
ReplyDeleteWow everyone is talking about seeds today. I think spring fever must be in the air.
ReplyDeleteLove the little frog! I think it looks good on the computer!
ReplyDeleteGranny, I think we've been outed. :) HA!
ReplyDeleteDid you get the frog joke, Dan? Ribbit...sent a frog...Yeah, stupid I know. I thought it would be cute hanging off of a garden bed. The computer's mighty stilish as well.
Hope the seeds work out for you.
K9-Crazy - I dropped you a line about my feed
ReplyDeleteDaphne - Spring fever for sure. It's going above freezing here for a few days, it will just make it worse!
Tenessa - The frog will have to winter inside for now but come spring it will be a garden guard.
Ribbit - I did get it, I thought ribbit sent a ribbit :-) Thanks again!
That frog is a legend! I love all the seed sharing that goes on between the bloggers. I have never been much of a seed saver (still new to it all) and am a bit scared of saving many seeds in my garden, given the wilt that has decimated all the tomatoes, but you have all inspired me so I recently saved some lettuce seeds, some welsh sprouting onion seeds (most of which got planted by me again) and some bush bean seeds. Hope the Winter is going ok!
ReplyDeleteprue - most people trade purchased seed, packs have so many that it makes it really easy to exchange a few of this for a few of that. Some that I send out is self saved but more often then not it is also purchased seed. Winter has been a breeze here so far. We have had hardly any snow and only a handful of really cold days. The next few will all be above freezing. I keep thinking we will have to pay for the nice weather some time...
ReplyDeleteIt's like having friends with you in the garden when you grow seeds that they have shared with you.
ReplyDeleteI am excited to grow out the seeds you sent to me. The Merlot lettuce will get to be first out of the chute I think.
Ribbit sent me a similar package also! The apple syrup is YUMMOLA! And Ribbit the Frog is chilling next to me indoor pond for now. The koi are kinda freakin' out. lol
ReplyDeleteLots of great things for you to grow next year...
ReplyDeleteHi Dan, I hope the seeds work out for you. I'm planning on sowing my minutina in mid-August this year. I waited too long last year.
ReplyDeleteI'm really excited to grow the red of florence scallions. I look so pretty.
Thanks again for the seeds. I've heard brussels sprouts can be very challenging to grow. I guess we'll see!
Minutina is one wacky little green. I like it young but have had it survive in my garden over witner. The older leaves on flowering stalks are unsurprisingly coarse.
ReplyDeleteSo how do I get into the seed trade - I have some interesting ones and old favs I can share from the West Coast...
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