this ones going to be huge im expecting at least 100 people ..free seeds, stickers, coloring books and hand fans from e.p.s. .. Whistle Stop Park Plant Swap Party! The Edgewater Permaculture Society and Volusia County Gardeners Yahoo Group will be hosting a Plant Swap Party at Whistle Stop Park, 650 Roberts Road in Edgewater Florida, Saturday, Oct. 10th, from 9am-12pm. This is a public event, everyone is invited to attend. Admission is free. Bring anything garden related, please make sure seeds & plants are labeled. If you don't have plants to bring, you can bring, and receive tickets for food, supplies, or door prizes. There will be free seeds, stickers, coloring books and hand fans from E.P.S.. Because this is a public park No Selling Will Be Allowed! Once you arrive at Whistle Stop Park please go directly to the registration booth. Volunteers will be on hand to help you unload your car. After you have registered a volunteer will give you tickets based upon the amount of plants, food, supplies, door prizes and garden materials that you have 'traded in.' After trading in all your plants and garden materials for tickets, you are encouraged to check out what the other gardeners at the swap have brought to trade at the Trading Area. Pick out plants and gardening materials that you would like to 'adopt' and take them to the Check-Out area, where you will trade in your tickets for the plants that you have chosen. At some point we'll eat, and draw door prizes, you must be registered and present to win a prize. *For people who want to bring food, supplies, or door prizes FOOD: Sandwiches, or whatever, you may want to take into consideration that there are a lot of vegetarians/vegans in these groups. We'll also want sides, desserts, drinks, coolers & ice. SUPPLIES: paper plates, paper or plastic cups, plastic spoons or forks, napkins or paper towels, name tags or self-adhesive labels DOOR PRIZES: Anything - doesn't have to be garden-related. Handmade or store bought. *Some suggestions & rules *Again, no selling! No pets, no alcohol. Children are welcome. *It's a good idea to bring bottled water, sun glasses, insect repellent, sun block, an umbrella just in case, newspaper to lay down in your trunk, empty box to put plants in. Please email me at saultic_75@yahoo.com to let me know if you think you might be attending, if you can volunteer to help out (volunteers are needed to put up flyers around your town, help with check-in, loading, and unloading), supplies or door prizes you plan to bring, or with questions, comments, or suggestions. Thanks! See you at the swap! Heidi Embrey Edgewater Permaculture Society Volusia County Gardeners Yahoo Group Here is a link that might be useful: plant swap info

Join me at my home in Winter Park for a glorious day of seed, cutting and plant swaps. What to bring? Lawn chair, cutting/gardening tools/bags, boxes, if you want to have lunch, something to BBQ and/or share and your best gardening spirit. The Plant Swap at home is from 9:00am - 3:00pm. Give me an e-holler at disilkwood@yahoo.com to let me know of your attendance plans so I may prepare. My husband and I are planting seeds to share for heirloom tomatoes, heirloom peppers, eucalyptus citridoria and African tulip trees...and goodness knows what else. This is going to dirt lovin' fun!

Hi All, I know I've been MIA for a few weeks. Work has been taking over lately. I just posted my trade list on the FTW Garden swap site. I added my pre-trades as I culled them from this page. Please review to see if I'm still on track. I'm going to try to accommodate everyone's rain lily requests. If I don't have enough of the yellow rain lily seeds to go around, I may be able to entice you with some minima seeds. Minimas are the most adorable tiny pale pink rain lilies. The flowers are less than a half inch in diameter. As a bonus, they go from seed to blooming in one year! I have about a dozen minima seed pods in my pots right now. I'll try to harvest some before the swap. Looking forward to meeting you all, JK

Yes, that must have been it, Omar. It was pixies playing tricks on us or else it was me who was somewhat "pixilated' after all the talking and trading ... LOL I have a question: someone brought a jar for the door prize table containing something brown that looked like preserves of some kind, but it had a picture of a cleaning woman on it. I asked the contributor and she told me that if was for cleaning your hands after gardening and contained brown sugar. I'm fascinated, but can't remember what else the cleaning compound contained. Anybody remember who brought it and what else it contained besides brown sugar? The dates for both SAPS next year will be announced by Lorelei soon ... :-)