What a generous offer. Thank you! I would be interested in: Beets Detroit dark red - 2010 (C) Carrots Nantes - 2010 (C) Onion Yellow Sweet Spanish - 2007 (C) Onion White Sweet Spanish - 2007 (C) Peas Early Wrinkled - 2007 (C) Peas Drawf Grey Sugar - 2007 (C) Peppers Baby bell - 2011 (G) Swiss Chard Fordhook Giant - 2010 (C) Tomatoes Cherry Sugar Lump - 2011 (C) *few seeds* Marjoram - 2005 (C) Parsley curly - 2010 (G) (B) - host plant for Black Parsley flatleaf - 2005 (C) (B) - host plant for Black Savory - 2006 (C)

Yes, I've read the bermuda bible multiple times. right now, i have rye in the back where the dogs are. no, i'm not planning on putting down seed right now. i'm definitely going to wait until early summer. i'm just doing a little preemptive research. right now, i'm just curious if anyone has had any experience with the gold glove strain, in particular. i've never heard of it until this year and was just curious. i live just south of dallas/fort worth....75054, in a newer residential development. it was sodded with bermuda. i assume it was tif 419 b/c it is so popular, but i'm not positive. i probably should have been more clear. i'm not looking to overseed the tif 419. i'm looking to repair bare spots that develop during the seasonal transitions of the grasses. when the rye starts to die off and the bermuda comes in, there are inevitably, bare spots where my dogs spend most of their time. over the past several years, i've found that i'm best suited to section those areas off from the dogs, till, compost, and seed. i tried just aerating and breaking up the top layer a little, and keeping the dogs off, but the bermuda simply doesn't come back in those spots. i don't know if they kill it with compaction or what. it would spread back into and through those spots throughout the summer (fill in), but doesn't work as quickly as the till, compost, seed combo, with a few weeks of keeping the dogs off. the roots are still there i would assume, it just doesn't come back doing it one way vs doing it the other. or hasn't for me at least, but i'm no turf pro. i try to core aerate and compost about twice a year, just to keep up with the compaction from the dogs. i'll also admit that my yard doesn't have great drainage and that just exacerbates the compaction. i need to install a french drain, i just haven't had the money lately to do it. if you have some other suggestions, i'm all ears.

I just spoke to them on the phone and they said they expect the greenhouse to be open to the public somewhere around May 1st depending on the weather. She said they've always been open to the public even when they were in Vermont. I went there last year in early May and they had a great selection. I loved being able to buy just one of several different varieties. I went again late in the summer, but that's not really the season for their greenhouses. I think the greenhouses were officially closed for the season at that point, but they let me buy a few things anyway. (They grow everything they sell themselves from seed or cuttings. They have 2 not huge greenhouses, one of which gets too hot in the late summer.)

I am planning on bringing the following to the swap: dwarf red anthurium (1), orchid I am trying to id (1) stella d'oro (2), caryopteris (1 gallon), trycirtis formosana (1 or 2 plants) wholly thyme, star jasmine vine start (if interested let me know and I can bring boat loads, clematis vine (trying to id) any takers on liriope grass?, unknown mums Special trades: crossvine (good size) twin leaf (1) reed stem orchid starts Seedings: polemonium brandegei, amsonia tabernaemontana I am still trying to get a grip on my property, ie moisture, sun etc, but it I know I want lavendar, purple salvia, and other full sun perennials. ~Shari