Hi Kenny, Unfortunately I am not able to join in this go round as I'm scrambling to get my planting done, so won't have time to package up seeds for the swap by next Friday. I love the swaps you coordinate and hope you do get enough people to participate. Best of luck with University this fall. .....Heather

Hi Kenny, My envelope full of seeds arrived today. Thanks so much for coordinating. Looks like a nice collection of different seeds. It's going to take a while to sort through and I can't wait to roll up my sleeves over a nice glass of wine (it's still snowing outside, so wine sounds like a reasonable thing to do). You gotta love Canada Post. It took them 10 business days to deliver an envelope when their service standard is 4. I'm just so thrilled it showed up. I thought for sure it was lost. Thanks so much for all of your hard work. ....Heather

Tomorrow is the last day for signing up. We are on a fast pace already. A number of swappers have sent thier packages in and we *might* be able to get finished sooner than March 7th at this rate. I will be sending packages out no later than March 10th but hope to be able to get them out before that. Thanks, Kelly

You wouldn't need to send me 200 different varieties, just 200 total packets if possible. Duplication is fine. And feel free to put as much sweet basil as you like in my box. I will put it to good use by donating it to Need4Seed! :) How'd I wind up with 214 seed packets to send? It's a long story. But since I am a writer and I *enjoy* storytelling, here goes! I maintain a highly varied personal seed bank so that I may assist Need4Seed and other low-income gardening associations by supplying seeds. So, I tend to have lots of seeds around my house at any given time! And I also really enjoy keeping my seedbank varied by seed trading, and I trade often. :) When I get seeds in a trade the packet sent to me usually has 20 or more seeds in it. Well, with my teensy growing space I seldom need more than 5 to 10 seeds of a given plant. So by only using the seeds I actually needed, I discovered I accumulated 35 seed packets worth of 'extras' that I could contribute to the swap. Also, this swap allowed us to send in 5 packets of one type. So I sent in duplicates of all the garden edibles (herbs, veg., edible flowers) that I grew out in 2008 and saved oodles of seeds from. That right there got me another 65 easily- Just 13 varieties of edible seeds, 5 packets of each. And that (35 plus 65) accounts for the first 100 packets. :) Now then, I also accumulated excess ornamental seeds over the past year. Some were bonus packets from generous seed traders. Some were seeds I got by scavenging (more bluntly termed 'seed snatching' LOL.) All of these homeless seeds turned out to be roughly another 104 seed packets. There's 52 weeks per year, so if I get one bonus pack per week and also scavenge a pack per week it *would* yield 104 extra seed packs per year that I won't have the room or time to grow out... And now that puts my total at 204 seed packets...:) I don't grow many regular sized ornamentals due to small space, so I keep them till I get a chance to swap them out and request edibles or dwarf varieties. I figure, at least SOME of these normal-sized lovelies will be of interest to others in this swap!! :) And then finally, there were 10 or so seed packets that contained the leftovers from a few special, or rare commercial varieties that I bought on impulse, hoping to enhance my garden's sophistication level. I admit it, sometimes I DO buy seeds on impulse... don't we all at times?? And thus, the somewhat embarrassing grand total of 214 packets. *blush* Bit by bit, a seed collection hobby can really add up. BTW, I am by no means the only GardenWebber known to send in hundreds of seeds into a swap when the swap rules have no packet limit stated. There were several boxes and big, fat envies each holding hundreds of packets that various people sent in to ncgardengirl's Wow Thanks swap recently! So nope, I am not alone in my seed obsession. I hope I amused some of y'all by telling on myself. :)