Jo Ann: solar powered lights as a door prize??? oh wow how cool! i sure hope i win those! what a great idea! Beverly: i am glad you like my signature saying. i dont know who wrote it but i just feel that it says it all!!! how else can you justify buying a pot of asclepsias in april or some virginia bluebells in the summer? my husband thinks i have lost my marbles when i bring home what looks like just a pot of dirt! lol i just finished potting up 31 plants and i have loads more to go plus several plants for direct trades too! but you know what? i feel great! i keep thinking of more and more things that someone might enjoy and its a great way to thin out some of my plants! I am really getting excited and it BETTER NOT RAIN THAT DAY either! so Margie and i were thinking about what time we have to get up that morning to get there around 10 and since i live about 1.5 hrs from her and she is closer to columbus than i am i am thinking i will have to get up at the crack of dawn along with the dern roosters!!! Sue 'The one thing all gardeners share in common is a belief in tomorrow'

Hey Alison, 4 0r 5 in a pack of tomatoes will be fine with me, I'll just try to get them on a trade!!! I'm good at killing plants too.... You not only do braille, but eat sausage, corn, beer, (my kinda girl), I was wondering???? what order was this? latin, beer, label, then you label, beer, latin, then you laabbeell, beeerrr, llaattinnnn, then eat the latin corn, drink the sauage beer, and then you label the latin beer, and beer the label latin, Beeeeeeerrrrrrr, laaabbeeel, Hic, hic, Latttiiinnnnnnnn. I just wanna be able to do this right! I gotta go lay down,,,,, hehe, can hardly wait til saturday hic...

COLUMBUS OHIO PLANT SWAP/POTLUCK II SAT. SEPTEMBER 16, 2006 Date: SEPTEMBER 16, 2006 (Tell your friends) Time: 10:00 - 3:00 Shelter house #5 Place: Hilliard Municipal Park on Veterans Memorial Dr, Hilliard, Ohio. Take outer belt I-270 & go west getting off at Cemetery Rd exit (go toward hilliard). 2 miles until right past Main St. Cemetery dead ends into Scioto Darby - turn right . Go a few blocks down & turn left onto Veterans Memorial Dr. First shelter house on the right #5 (same shelter house as spring swap). Material : Plant well-rooted cutting in pots, bulbs, shrubs, garden ornaments or junk art, garden magazines bundled up & gardening books. Please mark containers with kind of flower plus sun or shade. Use old containers, cups & for labels use plastic forks (or old blinds) with black permanent markers. Potluck: I donÂt know which is best the food or plant swap. Please bring a dish to share & utensils (mark your name) and any beverage. I will provide plates, cups & napkins. 10:00 - 12:00 People start arriving . Sign in at registration table with the # of plants, e-mail, sign up for door prizes & name tags. Donation jar for the shelter house which cost $30.00 to rent. Put your plants you brought to trade into there areas.(perennial, herbs, shrubs. Daylily, iris est.) Visit with other gardeners & view all the plants ready to trade. This swap is patterned after Beverly & Mimi fourth year plant swap. Last fall in September we had a small group of 50 traders but, lots of daylilies, iris & other plants !! 12:00 Enjoy our wonderful potluck. After lunch door prizes donated by our wonderful gardeners friends. Many thanks!! 1:00 Round robin: What we are all waiting for!! Round robin one everyone selects 1 plants. Round robin two everyone take 1 plants. Round robin 3 everyone takes two plants. Round robin 4 everyone takes three. Round robin 5 everyone takes 4 plants & so on. Everyone should be able to take as many plants as they brought. At the end there is usually a lot of plants left over for any one to take (some of use bring extra plants). Tips of the day: Please bring a wagon the help everyone unload there plants ( mark your wagon no trade). Folding chairs, table for plants, potluck dish & of course all these wonderful plants to trade. Any question go on line fellow swapers will help answer any questions. R.S.V.P : www.gardennweb.com./forums/get-together Then click on the Ohio valley or plant swap. You will find Central Ohio plant swap/potluck. IÂ canÂt wait until September for another swap . See you at the swap. Happy gardening!! Diane Garrett

I echo above posts' advices. (Except "fairly cool temperature" because you need warmth to germinate the seeds.) Pick your favourite herbs and just go for it (with proper pots, soil mix, decent sunlight, of course.) as long as you don't expect the best results. 1. If you plan to grow basil, do you know how to prune them properly? 2. Are you aware about aphids and insects that may swarm your indoor plants? (In my experience, my basil plants often were victims of aphids.) It's better to be prepared to deal with them when they arrive. 3. Not all plants that works for them works for you too. Or vice versa. People tend to say you can't grow indoor rosemary year-round but mine did and is still going at it. It's two years old now. Best thing is just try it to see what happens. 4. Since you like the sweet basil... Basil's optimum temperature for germination is 70 degrees Farenheit (21 C) but the seeds will germinate well with temperatures between 65-85 degrees (18-30 C) in about 7-15 days. (from here). 5. Sometimes you'll get dud seeds. I bought a parsley and strawberry packets and not single seed sprouted and I used whole thing! This post was edited by Aindra on Fri, Dec 7, 12 at 17:20