Hello! I have a question, do you trade for SASE or just other seeds? You are the first person I have came across that has heirloom seeds. I have been doing research about heirlooms and would like to grow a small garden of them. Please let me know! Thank you Ruth

yeah, bill-i really liked that freckles romaine you grew this spring, and your chard. we need to swap seeds--i can give you some of the jericho and a new chard, Bionda Da Taglio, that christine gave me seeds for... i'd like to try the freckles and lucullus. wow, tom, that's an impressive list of tomatoes. and i know you've had great luck with them. any one of them that really stands out? if so, can i bum some seeds to try? in the interests of full disclosure--i don't really like fresh tomatoes that much. (ok, i like them, but not as much as most people.) so, my narrow and uncreative choices for tomatoes have to do with my low expectations--since the world's BEST tomato EVER would hardly get reaction from me, i look for disease resistance and yield... tiffany is a bit boring, but boy is it reliable. From mid-july in the garden2

I am a balcony gardener mostly. Unfortunately , there are too many rats, alley rabbits, and wild dogs in my industrial zone neighborhood to successfully grow veggies in the mud pit driveway/ garden. Here are my plans for this year... as copied and pasted from my journal and some of it has gone outside already. Once again...this is a cut and copy of my happenings and plans...pardon the type os and run ons, it was like a scribble only in typing. ------------------------------------------ Downstairs in the muddy dirt driveway next to my car: 1) old grandma craigslist transplanted wisteria: survived!!!! YAY! 2) Tons of muscari and mint planted on top of the dug up rats nest. Growing! Allysum growing despite the starlings. Hostas growing 32 pips Lilly if the valley not growing!!!!ERRRRR!!!!!! Tranplanted lavender Growing! Grapes trimmed and growing. Lilacs , small but alive Borage growing. Pink hollyhock growing transplanted rose of sharon no sign of life. Mint growing on the stairs level 2 olive oil can full of garlic growing and happy paintbucket full of wisteria trimmings left outside and alive(?) bucket of mint no sign of life. landing bucket of mint.. no sign of life. 2 5 gal buckets of carrots of all colors growing. on the stairs level 3 tons of mint in pots no sign of life. balcony. pail of chives overwintered outdoors loving it! pail of giant lovage root overwintered out doors coming up Mint in cauldron, living despite the starlings. overwintered rosemary DEAD! 2nd batch Yellow violas doing o.k. first batch the starlings ate. mini roses, were fine now ERRR(??) peas peas and more peas outside and loving it. nasturtium, no sign of life. Indoors Growing. 1 ft lacinato kale 2 pots of arugula overwintering french tarragon Crazy ass ginger root. 2 genovese basil 3 types of oregano 2 types of mint. I type of lavender 1 type of thyme. 1 pot of parsley 1 overzealous rootbound african blue basil Ready to transplant ASAP( c'mon weather!!) giant sweet genovese in file box just like last year.. same time same method same place. (Snuff out the starling first this year!) outdoor lacinato -bucket 3 4 inch pots of parsley- Balcony in crates 12 black nasties- all over 3 day and night- nasties all over an bunch of emperess of india- nasties all over Black prince tomatoes balcony in 5 gal. giver rest away cherry tomatoes -5 gal give rest away striped roma-milk crate give rest away italian paste -crate give rest away 5 mini strawberries. top crate okra, 5 gal bucket. # blueberry plants ready to put in container in front of car.Make mix purple pole beans for the deck supports 5 gal bucket. blue lake beans for landing/ deck rail.. 5 gal bucket yellow bush beans for landing 5 gal bucket black and purple carrots for landing 5 gal buckets 12 wormwood/ for near Any rat entry and exits in mud pit back yard. 1 wormwwod for use up here. 7 black holly hock/ back yard 20 sunflowers of dif varieties and heights. along the dysfunctional driveway gate various fox gloves. who knows where i will put those. 20 lambs ears... near the trellis. under the wild ass grape vine that will fruit this year. Johnny jump ups ready to go Allysum. ready to go(???) Billions of summer savory.. ready as soon as they are. Trade trade Trade!! Cuttings; mint - fine. Af. Blue basil- 30 cuttings doing overly splendid. oregano rooting. lavender(???) thyme -rooting swwet potato from counter rooting Affix old ladder to bldg. for hanging planters for herbs. find a place for chamomile. Find Black Purple Silver or White plants and have a ton of stuff to trade. clover for under shady grapes, maybe GODZILLA clover! plant munstead. Get rosa rugosa for hips try the vert garden thing with the stakes. and steel (???) find a crappy old clawfoot to grow out of in the back mud pit.(???) Tame them grapes to feed me. Kill those damn rats and flush out those starlings first thing... and , paint the grill And get a heliotrope, saffron and opium poppies because i like them. :) Find a place to hand black fuscia figure out cool bucket/ chain design to hang in negative space of skyline. Kill the tree of heaven next door when no ones looking. Kill the stump of a crap tree in yard and dig it out this year. Patch big rat holes in wooden fence. ------------------------------------------- I got a ton of stuff to do.

sometimes they are sticklers at the post office, different people have different rules unfortunately! the post office is not very consistent in their charges, and it sort of depends on who you get when you go into the PO. yeah, for a small trade i usually tape the seeds down on an index card or other card stock, recycled box or whatever. then i can get them under the 3/4 inch thickness rule and mail it as a "flat" or "large envelope". many PO people though will try to charge you the parcel rate, even when you do not have to pay the extra fee. i do hope you received my envelope without incident or postage due? just checking, i know it was packed correctly as a "flat", but i also know how the post office can be. and i just got your note that said the post office said your envelopes were too lumpy.