I would love these i can send sase navy bean no id brown bean OKRA longhorn running okra pack with no name GOURDS- birdhouse luffa (also chinese okra) lots swan- dipper- ridged turks turban canteen bowl gourd-small amt. easter egg PUMPKINS new england pie pumpkin small sugar packs of pumpkin no id howden tendercrisp celery celery tango texas onions broccoli rabe orach "aurora' cima di rapa brassica rapa peanuts

A lot of what I am trying this year I tried last year but got cleaned out by bugs. I have so many different seeds this year I had to make a list in a word processor... Here are all squash/gourds/pumpkins: Gourds: Birdhouse Small Fancy Mix Pumpkins: Dill's Atlantic Giant Early Sugar pie Williams Naked Seeded Summer squash: Crookneck, Early Golden Scallop, Early White Bush Scallop, Yellow Bush Straightneck, Early Prolific Straightneck, Early Yellow Zucchini, Dark Green Zucchini, Goldtender Zucchini, Grey Gourmet Hybrid Zucchini, Greyzini Zucchini, Round (grey) Winter squash: Acorn Squash Banana, Pink Jumbo Buttercup, Burgess (Winter Harvest Mix) Butternut, Waltham (Winter Harvest Mix) Delicata (Winter Harvest Mix) Hubbard, Golden Hubbard, True Green Improved Spaghetti, Vegetable (Winter Harvest Mix) Victor (Red warty thing) I've grown pumpkin before, and regular green zuchinnis, crooknecks and straightnecks, but a lot of the varieties will be new for me. This is my first time trying to grow gourds, as I usual grow for food, not decoration.

Yes the female flowers have set fruits these last couple cooler dry days. Just before that I had several male flowers, which have now dropped, so when the female arrived I only had one or two males which had been stripped clean by the time I got to it, thus the plant aborted the fruit. We has just gone through a hot day/night period with lots of rain, here just outside Fredericksburg, VA. It seems like either the bees, or cucumber beetles got to it first. I try to stay organic and had not heard about Neem Oil to control the cucumber beetles, so.... maybe next year? I have another female getting ready to bloom, I think I will bag out a couple males and the female and see what happens, I hope clear sandwich bags work. Sounds like Macmex's suggestion might be the way to go, although he tapes the flowers closed.

Howdy! Congratulations on the successful gardening season! Those are good sites that you mentioned. Also, you might look into Sandhill Preservation Center and Baker Creek Heirlooms, though there are A LOT of other good companies as well. I take it that you have HOT summers? Here in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, we have HOT summers. I have found that many of the large old beef steak varieties don't really like our mid-summer's heat. Drop in on the Oklahoma Gardening forum and ask about tomatoes. One of the folks there, named Dawn, is a walking encyclopedia on tomatoes for hot climates. She lives just north of Dallas, TX. I have grown Sioux for two seasons and found it quite good for our conditions. My favorite tomato, still, is an heirloom I received from an older gentleman in Illinois. It's called Baker Family Heirloom. Unfortunately, it is not commercially available. I'd have to send you seed. Actually, the Oklahoma Gardening forum would probably be a good place for most of your questions. The "growing tomatoes" forum will tell you quite a bit as well. Heirlooms are not generally harder to grow. But some are very specially adapted for certain conditions and therefore don't do well in a wide range of conditions. I grow an heirloom winter squash called Warsaw Buff Pie Pumpkin. It's good, and it does well in a wide variety of conditions. The only squash varieties I'd stay away from, if you live live in the eastern half of the country, are the c. maxima varieties, such as Hubbard, Turk's Turban or Big Max. C. Maximas (this is a family of squash) tend to succumb to squash vine borers. C. Mixtas, such as butternut, Tahitian Melon Squash and my own Warsaw Buff Pie Pumpkin are much more resistant. If I recall, Baker Creek Heirlooms actually lists their squash by the scientific family. Hope this helps! George Tahlequah, OK