If I read pippi21's post correctly it only mentioned adding a year and gardenweb username, not any other contact info. I try to always put the year on packets, just as a courtesy. I have noticed that most people don't put a year on though. Some seeds I get in swaps look like they have been around the block for quite a while. I would rather not sow decade old seed, if I have a packet that is from the last year or two. Any seed I get that is not dated gets the current season's year written on it so I know that it is at least that old if I don't use it right away. I don't see an issue with including your username. Most swaps require it so as not to get back your own seed and to make the swap easier on the host. If someone has my username that is all they have. I don't have any contact info or my real name on my user page and you have to be a gardenweb member to see my e-mail. An e-mail address can be easily changed. Plus, there has to be a certain level of trust to do trades and swaps as you have to give them your address to get your seeds. I think you are far more likely to have an issue with stalkers and weirdos with people that actually know you, or think they do because of pictures on Facebook or something similar. There are tons of people that already have our basic info anyways, like the call centers and customer service operations run out of prisons. I don't know... it doesn't worry me much but that is just my opinion. I don't expect to be harassed because someone didn't like my hollyhocks:) But trudi has been doing this a lot longer than me, so maybe she has had some experiences. The seed I donate I do not put my username on though because there isn't a need to, just on packets part of a swap where required.

lilyfinch Lisianthus are beautiful. I have had them in the past. I just need to learn how to raise them in zone 9. conniesc you are officially on my enabler list! I just finished a list of things to order from Park's. Now I can add to the list because I don't have to pay postage. Thanks.

I also take only extras from my own ws and usually second year plants rather than new seedlings. I do appreciate those who bring starter veggies though as this spring I didn't get any started and often there will be a variety new to me. I don't mind getting perennial seedlings from others as I put them in with other seedlings in my holding beds.

LOL! Greenpurplegirl, that's exactly what it's like -- Trick or Treat for adults! (gardeners) LOL! So many of the seeds I got last year, and this year too, were of things that I thought, 'Yuck!', or 'What's that?'. I must say that my very favorite, VERY favorite things this year were things I couldn't imagine ever growing from seed: Dahlias, Lantanas and Snapdragons. Why would you bother when you can get them from the garden center? And how many years would it take to get them from seed to flower, anyway? Wellll, I must say that those bloomed the same year, and were the most fan-tab-u-lous flowers in my garden and the reason you grow them instead of buy them (besides cost) is because they really aren't the same as you get from the garden center...not at all. You can buy that short squatty Red Salvia, and it's ok. You can get 'Lady in Red' or 'Yvonne's Salvia' from the CG swap, and all of a sudden, Salvia is a whole other plant! It just seemed to me that EVERYTHING I sowed and grew on was a whole other plant that what I could ever buy, and ever afford, in the quantity I wanted and could sow from a pack of seeds. (I did see Lady in Red Sallvia at the store, but it's always the $4.99 plants in the 4" pots. ) Thanks you again, Tracy, Lime