Hey everyone, I will not be able to come to the swap this weekend. I just got back from the vet and my doggie is not doing so well...apparently her spine is degenerating....anyway I can't leave her alone all day. For anyone that I was trading with I'm very sorry but hopefully I will make it to the next swap. If anyone is in the Miami area or passing through and would like to pick up their plants I am available and we can make a bar-b-que out of it.

Oh good, Julie -- and you've got some good loot! So, how do people clean these seeds? What kind of equipment do you all have? Right now I am using 2 collanders and 2 strainers with different sized screens. To say my seed is chaffy is an understatement, but on a lot of them, I can't figure out what the seed even is (Filipendula for example). Others, like ageratum, I thought you were supposed to crumble the seed heads, but that would naturally include the browned petals. The heuchera is the same way, but in that case it's the short little stems of each individual flower that fall through the screens. On Victoria Salvia, I have to individually roll each seed pod between my fingers to get what appears to be a single seed out, and I have 1000s. On marigolds, not all the seeds are heavy and black -- some are light gray or white. I have 10,000s of those -- no way I am going to fish out the light gray ones and blowing on the plate was a disaster of the 1st magnitude, but thank goodness I did it outside! I can NOT be doing this right! It's hours and hours and hours just to clean & that's not including the packing & labeling. I heard some people are making their seed packs from scratch -- now how in the heck do you have time for that? All-in-all I would say I might get a bad reputation from my dirty seed. Lime P.S. Would a salad spinner do any good for anyof these seeds? I think I need to mechanize! LOL!

hello another update 1. Micyrey/Michelle anything but trees 2. panchiro/Simone 3. amybabyboy3/Amy veggies and flowers 4. booberry85 (veggies) 5. sguanzon 6. vic_zn5/Vic (flowers & veggies) 7. kristlindgren/Kris 8. kmpsmom/Ann 9. fcoffill/Frances flowers/foliage for hot/dry **receved seeds** 10. evonnestoryteller (flowers) **receved seeds** 11. sassybutterfly_2008/Wendy (flowers) 12. mimib1/Brenda (any) 13. luvgardening2/Nancy (veggies) 14. ravenwv - flowers 15. esiuol/Louise 16. quiltingfox **receved seeds** 17 rbrady/Rhonda 18. urbanhula/titiana **receved seeds** 19. saleado/jonathan 20. livingdedgrrl - flowers 21. ibartoo/linda flowers 22. candycow/candy 23. astilbebstillz6a/ veggies/herbs/ some flowers 24. daphne16/ veggies/herbs/eddibles **receved seeds** 25. kalena67/ karen 26. greensingh/ flowers/foliage/grass/tomatoes 27. kandituft/ flowers/veggies 28. metull/melonie flowers 29. flowers1/amy 30. chrizty/christy flowers 31. dorisl/doris 32. southern charm/ anything not toxic 33. grove spirit/ non toxic 34. christie199/christie flowers and herbs 35. uncgardener/kara veggies/flowers 36. gnomey/ 37. musicaldeity/ anything I'll besending my address to those who have not gotten it yet michelle

Hi everyone! Wow! A lot of people got their seeds today! The post office must have been working over the New Years weekend! I'm glad you are all liking the seeds I sent. Gmom, I had a lot of extras ready before I started this swap so everyone got more seeds back than they sent it. It was just something that I wanted to do as so many people have been so generous to me over the last year on GardenWeb. It was a good way for me to give back. I'm getting ready to post an organizing thread for a new round of Color of the Month Swaps for 2010. It should be up shortly. So if you are interested in hosting a Color swap, keep your eyes open for it. Penny