I like them in individual envelopes and ready to go to the next person. I buy small plastic bags in the wedding department at Walmart for mine. As long as the seeds are dry they work fine. If someone has asked you for a specific thing and they are part of the swap, just put their name on that envelope that you send in. Yes, I volunteered to do the swap. It is a MUST to include your gardenweb USERNAME in your package. I will post as I receive things, and at the specified mailout time, I will post that they are being mailed. George suggested the number of seeds (25) for the swap. Now would someone like to specify the number of packets to send. Understand that you can send more than that if you want, but not less than the specified amount of packages. Just tell me what you want done with the excess, or otherwise I will just divide it up for everyone. Ilene, the old postage rate of $1.14 was the parcel post rate and sometimes you have to get a little tough with the post office over it. Seeds can travel in a bubble mailer as "large envelope rate" as long as you keep the envelope from being more than 3/4 inch thick. That might mean that you have to tape your bags to a piece of paper before you slide them in the mailer to keep them from shifting around. When you ship "large envelope rate" they will push the envelope through a template to make sure it is not too thick. I guess my feeling about the cost is this: Even if it cost $1.50 each way to get your seeds, you get to try a lot of things for $3.00. A lot of packages of seed cost that much or more, and some of them don't even have 25 seeds in them. Some of you are seed savers and can select right from your own plants. Others of us buy too many and have plenty to share. Some need only a few seed of one type for the season and the others don't get used. I think it is nice to be able to try a few of a variety to see if you like it or if it does well in your garden, before you invest in a bigger quantity....hot peppers come to mind. I would love to have dozens of ancho peppers, but a couple of chili peppers is plenty for me to plant in a season. This year I have about 3 dozen pepper plants, but they are probably 8 or 9 varities. This also provides a challenge for those people who don't normally plant from seed, and an opportunity for those who do to add a few new things to their garden. How many packs????? Also, I would like to limit it to everything being mailed in the same week to ten days, so I don't have them at my house forever. If we set a date, like mail between Nov 1st and 10th, then I could have them all on the way back to you by Thanksgiving and they wouldn't be in my way for the holidays. I think some of you will still be saving seed in October so we probably need to go later rather than earlier. Ideas?

Fran really I had NO trouble with either of them. I just use a shallow pan or plastic shoe box and sow on the surface and cover with vermiculite and mist daily I had them both to germinate within 7-10 days. I have grown many times. Black moundry I have, but would have welcomed more from tammy, my seeds that I started this year I already had plans for, but blue fescue you can winter sow also I did last year, but this year started some in greenhouse in August they were in gallon pots by jan. Second sowing which you are getting was Feb and they are now in 4 inch pots, but could easily go up. HMMM did you sow on the surface. I have found that with grass seed it is imperative to use pans and not plugs or divided seed start containers. Just fill a container with dirt and they love it. I did not use bottom heat for the blue fescue, but did for the moundry. Black mondo which I was looking for is just a black mondo grass. Thompson and Morgan has seeds I may try it is so expensive for plugs, the same for Japanese Forest GRass, but I guess I will have to bite the bullet in the fall. NEW REQUEST Lotus from DON and Spider lily if you have anymore please. Here are my offers that are confirmed please not some will have to be mailed out later PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF I MISSED ANYONE AS I WILL BE MOVING THESE TO A SEPERATE AREA SO I DON"T GET THEM MIXED IN WITH RETAIL> Tammy Purple Fountain Grass Dwarf Umbrella Palm Water Hyacinth confirmed Marian Lemon Grass Purple Iris Aquawise Fiber Optic Grass Pony Tail Indian Grass Lemon grass Becky Dwarf Umbrella Palm Anacharis Bigmoma4ever Anacharis Wendy Lemon Grass Purple Fountain Grass Dwarf Sweet Flag Fiber Optic Grass Ruby Grass Dwarf Umbrella Palm Anacharis Water Hyacinth confirmed Water Lettuce confirmed Mouse Lemon Grass Pony Tail Grass Indian Grass Fran Blue Fescue Pony Tail Lemon Grass Indian Grass Sweet Flag Ruby Grass: Chinese Silver grass: Carex Prairie Fire sedge Dwarf Umbrella Palm Corkscrew Rush Pickeral Rush Water Hyacinth confirmed Water Lettuce confirmed I will send you some daylilys also. Chris Blue Fescue Pony Tail Lemon Grass Indian Grass Purple Fountain Grass Ruby Grass Chinese Silver Grass Carex Prairie Fire Sedge Bunny Tail Grass Dwarf Umbrella Palm Corkscrew Anacharis Pickeral Rush Water Hyacinth confirmed Water Lettace Confirmed Dixietn Pony Tail Lemon Grass Indian Grass Purple Fountain Grass Corkscrew Don water lettuce when available I will mail out need address water hyacinth when available I will mail out need address Blue Fescue Ponytail Lemon Grass Fiber Optic Grass Dwarf Umbrella Palm Hope everyone is well. I would have been on sooner but when we got back from New york the air was broken, then that night laid down to sleep and couldn't I heard a popping noise saw a flash and the tv had shorted out, by the time i got up to unplug it it...

Whoa! Me, too. I knew it was early July but didn't have the date in mind. Thanks, Terri. PS-- if you have me again just send three jars of Tayberry Jam. ;)

Red, I want to thank you for posting this idea! I've been working on a Row by Row at another forum but being my usual self, tried to use my scraps/orphans and just did what came to me for each row - trying not to think about the end result. Now that I'm at the end, putting the rows together in the normal way is not pleasant to my eye. BUT, putting it together Log Cabin style works like a charm!!! Now, to make all those blocks fit!!! @:) Thank you! SharonG/FL