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International Seed Swap

17 years ago

This year (the sixth I've been doing it), we have more new participants than ever - over 30 so far, many joining in for the third or fourth time. Lots of lovely seeds are coming in thick and fast now, so there should be even more new things for us all to try. Some of the seeds already in the kitty are listed on my webpage on the link.

There's still plenty of time for new participants to get their seeds to me, so let me know if you'd like to join in this time. The more the merrier!

Here is a link that might be useful: International Seed Swap - Seeds in the Kitty

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wi-northernlight
17 years ago
I am new to group seed swaps.
Please tell me how this works.

Bob
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crazylady
Original Author
17 years ago
I'm hoping to sort out the seeds and send them to the participants next week (still waiting for a few more envelopes to arrive), so you're too late for this year's swap. I've put details of how I do it on the web page on the link. However, as you're in the US, you need to get a Permit to allow you to import seeds.

I think there are several group swaps for people in the US, and they either work in the same way as this one, or as a Round Robin, with a box full of packages of seeds going round the participants, with each one taking out as many packets as they want, and replacing them with the same number of packets of their own seed.

Here is a link that might be useful: International Seed Swap
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I am interested in learning what seeds can be considered exciting? That must vary a great deal with local climates and conditions. Personally, I don't think I could contribute anything interesting as I believe I grow mostly what "everybody has in the garden" to quote your page. For example, I have carpets of hepaticas in my woodland, common as dirt in Sweden, but are they as common in Britain? Marianne in central Sweden
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It is indeed a lovely swap - thanks again, Crazylady. I'd love this forum to be more active but have gradually got bored and moved off to other more thriving ones.
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Lots of lovely seeds coming in this week - look at the list on the link to see what's in the kitty this year. I'm still waiting for one or two lots of seeds to arrive, so there's still time for new people in the UK to join in and share the kitty this year. Here is a link that might be useful: Seeds to share in 2010
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I'd like to be able to arrange individual swaps with people all over the world as I used to, but now we can't contact one another by posting on the Garden Web Seed Exchange, it's a lot more difficult to do that. That's why I've been organising these big swaps for the last few years. I'm fussy about what I grow in my garden, too, and I've got seeds of several interesting plants through these swaps. As many people have joined in several times, I assume they have too. I've listed some of the seeds so far in this year's kitty on the link. I hope all this year's participants will be happy with what they get back in November. Here is a link that might be useful: Seeds in the International Seed Swap
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