I have lots of flowers seeds from 2008 that I'm not going to grow this year. I'd be willing to give you them for a SASBE. I like to see them go to a good home where they'll be grown. Take a look at my trade list and see if any interest you.

Thanks for the offer bev. I'll trade you for the Limas. (I don't like them myself, but my mother does) Just let me know what you'd like off my list. An updated list is as follows: C - Bought from Commercial Company T - Got from Trade with another member Corn - Sweet, Baby Corn - (C) 20+ seeds Flower - Cosmos - (C) seed # ?? Flower - Borage - (C) 30+ seeds Herb - Lovage (C)seed # ?? Herb - Red Shisho - (C) seed # ?? Melon - Cantaloupe Type, Prescott Frond Blanc - (C)25+ seeds Melon - Watermelon, Moon and Stars - (T) 5 seeds Onion - Tropeana Round - (C) seed # ?? Pepper (Hot) - Hungarian Yellow Wax - (C) 20+ seeds Pepper (Mild) - Pasilla Bajio - (C) seed # ?? Squash - Gourd, Dipper - (C) seed # ?? Squash - Pumpkin, 10 lb. - seed # ?? Squash - Winter, Heirloom Mix - (T) 20+ seeds Squash - Red Warty - (T) seed # ?? Squash - Buttercup - (T) seed # ?? Tomato - Green Skin Long Keeper - (C) 20+ seeds Tomato - Celebrity Hybrid - (C) 30 seeds

Sounds like you have good advice already but let me add a few items. I have decided to go all organic and non-gmo also after reading and hearing from Jeffrey Smith and Seeds of Deception. I had trouble getting tomatoes to grow from seed my first year. I planted a cover crop in the back of the garden to enrich soil there before trying to plant a crop there the next year. I found several volunteer tomato plants growing in the cover crop from where I had thrown compost material. This was in October. I brought those plants inside and potted them up in a sunny window. I added a 4' florescent light also. As the plants grew I kept taking cuttings off of them and planting them. By the time April 15 rolled around I had 9 tomato plants 4' tall ready to go out to the garden. Getting them transplanted to the garden was a trick but I was successful. I trimmed several bottom leaves off and planted 1' to 2' of stem sideways in the ground so they would grow a more vigorous root system. Those plants are now 5' tall and have flower buds all over them. I hope to have tomatoes by the end of May. This was just an experiment but it has had a wonderful ending. I would recommend reading Eliot Coleman's 4 Season Harvest for more info on experimenting. I live 30 miles west of Atlanta so you s/b able to do this also in Athens. One more thing. Look up David Suzuki. He is a very brilliant scientist. I tend to believe what he has to say about GMO's. "If a politician, scientist, biotech engineer etc., tells you that GMO's are safe, they are either lying or they are very stupid." From a fellow seeker of the old ways to garden.

I love what you are doing. It's a special assignment, a calling, to grow very rare seeds. Plus, you're supporting your local garden club and community. Kids are so disconnected from their food sources! In order to pm each other you have to edit your set up page. Then you click on the person's username you want to contact (example: Lisa) and then click on Message. If you get your Houzz email forwarded to your personal account you can't just hit "reply". You need to go back to Houzz. It's different--but without Houzz this site would have been toast long ago. In fact, Houzz is adding more plant-related information. We've proven to be an asset. http://forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/3371179/attention-newbies-please-read?n=147 Heidi