Hi Audrey! Omigosh - I want everything!!! But as I'm putting together my proposal, I was curious about your lists in the seed exchange. You have lists for both what you're offering/have harvested and what you've received from other swaps. Are the seeds in the the latter category leftovers and available as well, or is this more of a personal inventory? Thanks, ~Heather PS: a most impressive list! I can tell you've been to the same rare plant sites I've been to :) Here is a link that might be useful: My swap lists

Hi everyone. I have a problem similar to Ty's, but until I got here and read this thread, I didn't know I'd done anything wrong. I was in fact roaming around the site trying to figure out what to do about the aphids on my honeysuckle, and why a small, thorny, rose?-bush was yellowing insanely. I came to this thread just to make sure I hadn't done anything Ty did, but I think I have. I'm a total Newbie (just signed up last night), I'm doing this alone with no actual from-scratch gardening experience except sowing seeds indoors, and a bit of pruning under my belt. My house plants are all quite healthy, and I've been known to be a recovery center for the ailing plants of friends and family members. Tackling an entire garden seemed slightly insane to me, but I thought it would be a rewarding challenge. I'm going to start a new thread with my specific issues, but I thought it best to begin here since this is where my panic began. I live in zip 11354/11357. What was once a lush lawn of kentucky blue, cared for by my parents and their hired landscapers, became overrun with weeds and zero grass over the 2 years since they moved to another home. They planned on selling this house quickly, so we weren't putting any money or time into landscaping here, but things have changed and now I'm trying to make it beautiful and my own, as I will probably be here for a few more years. I have virtually no garden tools (I know you'll yell at me for this) but I put down some weed-killer with a hose, then borrowed a garden claw from a family friend, and have spent the last 3 weeks tearing up the ground and manually pulling out roots of weeds, digging deep into the dirt with my hands to get as much root out as possible. I finally finished the area I'd like to use as a lawn, but have noticed little green sprouts popping up in the areas I'd tackled weeks ago. Do I go over it again with weedkiller? I've not planted anything new as I only finished tearing up the area last night. I will attempt to post pics of my before and after. There are far more issues happening around the yard right now, but I'll stick to this to keep it relevant to this post. Before mid-way through: current: HELPPPPPP

Still have: Soapwort seeds (Perennial) - pink flowers Cosmos polidor (Annual) - dark orange flowers, back border about 4 ft tall (note seed has lots of chaf but will send lots) I'm looking for everything - huge garden in a virgin state. make me an offer! Cheers, Peggy

Chandra, I didn't get any eggplant started, so if you have extra plants after you plant in the garden, would you bring me one or two to the swap. I am afraid that I am going to have some very late crops this year, since I have a lot of things that should have already been growing under lights by now. My start-up time and place got invaded at just the wrong time. I hope to do a broccoli crop in the fall along with some califlower and brussel sprouts, but the spring only gets broccoli and chinese cabbage this year. I normally start regular cabbage from seeds but just didn't get it done. I am glad that our growing season is long because I am slow this year. LOL It will be interesting to see how many of those crops you actually get done. That is a VERY ambitious plan. Looks like something Dawn would do. (grin)