i have lg birdhouse seeds, snake seeds, small mixed gourd seeds would you trade for larkspur, verbena, moon flowers . oswego

You get a mutt. You won't know what it's going to look like or how big it's going to get. Rodney

Wow those Aladin are really small, if I didn't see the playing card in the picture I would have thought those were full size turks turbans. The Aladin gourds should be fine in your half barrels. The All Size Mix should be okay if it is actually the gourds pictured. The description worries me though since it says, "Amazing range of shapes and colors, both large and small." The gourds they have pictured are all small in my opinion and large gourds to me are the hard-shelled gourds. Although if you are growing them along the ground size shouldn't be too much of an issue. One thing to watch out for is that if you let a vine just grow over the side of the barrel that is 12"-18" off the ground the vine may break before it touches the ground. You might want to think of a way to support the vine before it touches the ground. It wouldn't need to be fancy it could be something simple like four sticks in the ground about a foot apart and just tie the vine to the stick at closer and closer points to the ground as the vine grows.

Not likely from a compost pile, squash are very promiscuous and cross breed readily within species. The largest species ( C. pepo)contains everything from ornamental gourds, all summer squash, winter squash and Halloween type pumpkins.