I am interested in the purple tomato, squashes, beans, and spinach. Here is the list of seeds I have to offer: ~~Store-bought seeds~~ **Veggies and fuits** Canteloupe - verduras pumpkin - connecticut field Pepper - California wonder 300TMR Tomato - Big Boy hybrid Tomato - Moneymaker Tomato - Yellow pear Carrot - Danvers #126 Carrot - Danvers Half Long Turnip - Purple top white globe Lettuce - Grand Rapids (leaf) Eggplant - early long purple Watermelon - Sugar Baby **Flowers** Marigold - crackerjack, mixed colors Marigold - french dwarf double mixed colors snapdragon - tall delux mixed colors petunia - mixed colors cosmos - single sensation mixed colors alyssum - maritmum tall sweet Zinnia - lilliput ~~Self Harvested~~ Cantaloupe Honey Dew Melon Golden Delicious Melon Roma Tomato Sugar Plum Cherry tomato Pasilla Pepper Jalapeno Pepper Sweet Mini Bell Pepper Anaheim Pepper Elephant garlic Watermelon - Yellow flesh Crenshaw Melon ~~Will be self harvested somewhere between now and first frost~~ Early Girl tomato sweet 100 cherry tomato sungold cherry tomato big beef tomato better boy tomato ace tomato celebrity tomato brandywine tomato Sweet banana pepper Chili de arbol peppers Armenian Cucumber Japanese Cucumber Black Beauty eggplant Yellow onion String beans (bush) 2 types of red/green bell peppers yellow bell pepper Pumpkin Crimson sweet Watermelon Sweet corn serrano peppers lucky lion soybeans

countrycarolyn: I won't give them a haircut then and leave well enough alone. The main thing is to get them planted, will give them a month for the roots to work on down although it sounds like they're tough and could just have stuck them in the ground without repotting. ladyrose65: You confirmed the dianthus, too. Where did I get the raspberry seeds? I've been all over everything, search engine here, google advanced, my old computer fired up twice and got into my mail but it hangs now. I can't post real names and didn't find the raspberry trade, know it was somebody on this forum. In my mail I did find mastergardner2003 but she sent me the currants; I found conniejw who designed that beautiful space in front of my garage with some special software she has. I know it wasn't they. This name sticks in my mind of having corresponded with, brandmulvaine. It might have been she but I couldn't find the trade emails. Also I traded with Carol (hosta) but know it wasn't raspberries. It will be prob 3 yrs before I get any seeds. Was going to buy some at amazon but they wanted $9.95. But I'll post a link where the plants are much cheaper because I might have bought from there if I hadn't found mine. Oh yes, I'll keep the sprout pics and may take more later if they look promising. northerner_on: Strange error, not so much here but what I went through trying to find that raspberry exchange. I'm not sure I sent anything in return; if I did it might have been alyssum and lupines I had a ton of that I bought. Now the lamium, that is not a pleasant prospect because my yard is a total mess. It's already worked it's way through that small garden space and may smother some of my plants and working north into a bare spot. I've got a terrible invasive behind the garage and want to cover the fern and do roundup on the whole mess. Then I'd like the lamium there if I knew how to transplant it. Evidently it roots easily, grows a ways, puts down roots, then more with more roots is how it travels. Yes I have two other lamiums, one variegated and one plain, I think, with pink flowers. They haven't been such a problem at all. I just ripped them back a little when they were threatening my new brunera, have had several years now, haven't gotten into the lawn, seem to want to move toward more shade. So thanks so much everyone for the help and advice. Now the hard part. Getting them in the ground in the right places. My backyard is pockmarked from tree chunks falling last summer, and I shouldn't even walk in it but do very carefully. Am 69 and fell when the lawn guys were here but easy fall. The tree people last year wanted $800 to fill the holes, nothing doing after spending $3000 to have the tree taken down which was cheap for that. One of the best tree companies wanted $10,000 included stump removal, no way. but if I break something, maybe I'd better get some topsoil and pay somebody to fill them in. I want to be able to enjoy this again without all this other stuff to mess with, and just because things are difficult now, I don't want to give in to a sense of futility. Here is a link that might be useful: Bristol Raspberry Plants

Have freshly harvested sweet william seed for trade. I prefer to do multiple trades with each person if possible. Check out my trade list and let me know if anything interests you. Thanks

Thank goodness they have gotten out in the mail! Can anyone read the postmark on their package? We only live 4 hours away from each other. Is the post office that far behind with the holiday mail? I'm glad this didn't turn ugly. I don't know if anyone noticed but we are on the Round Robin Forum but never have Round Robins anymore! For you newcomers, a "round robin" is a box that a hostess mails out full of seeds. It goes down a list of people that signed up. It's supposed to go back to the hostess at the end of the list (round robin the box back). Problems, problems, problems. People dog the box with totally junk seeds or they don't mail the box promptly. It's long and tedious wait for people. But the worst of it is (speaking first hand) people stealing the box completely. I don't want to see the swaps go away, we all enjoy them too much. Lime, sorry you mailed that postcard a day early :) You know though, if you hadn't been so persistant we'd all still be sitting here with out thumbs up our butts. And all it takes is some lurker to read our swap went bad and come in and host a fake swap. It looks like she had the best intentions at the start but the total lack of communication and not following through to the end didn't happen. We were all checking the obits :( Everyone, please sound off when your packages come so we can put this confusing swap to bed.