Hi, smokeymist! Oooh I love collecting heirloom beans. If you have any left of: Barnes Mountain Striped Hull Greasy Cut Short North Carolina Speckled Long Cutshort Greasy Doyce Chambers Grandma Barnett I would like to trade 7 of my beans (seven seeds) for 7 of your beans (seven seeds), so I can grow some out. If you'd rather have squash or carrots, I can spare 12 squash, or about 30 or 40 carrot seeds or so, again in trade for 7 beans. This is what I have - These are all packed for 2011 from Baker Creek or Territorial Seeds: Hidatsa Shield Bean Beurre De Rocquencourt Bush Wax Bean White Rice Bush Bean Bolita Pole Bean McCaslin 42 Pole Bean Red Dragon Carrots Tromboncino squash - I have never used it as a winter squash, but it is our favorite summer squash Thank you! Kathy

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Jay, And you just know that I love going out there and fighting to get all that evil bermuda grass out of my lovely red clay. LOL If I had to choose (and I did, which is how we ended up with clay) between the three main types of soil common in Love County (dense red clay, almost pure sand, and rocky limestone soil), I'd choose clay because of the issues that gardeners here have with root knot nematodes in their sandy soil, but clay sure is hard to break and improve, especially clay that is mainly growing either bermuda grass or Johnson grass. I hope to break up three different areas this winter and plant in them next spring. One is clay with a little bit of sand mixed in with it, so I hope it is not quite as dense and hard as the soil where the existing garden was built. Another is pretty sandy, so it only needs lots and lots of organic matter added. The third area is the same type of horrible red clay we have around the house and main garden. Hopefully, we'll be able to break that clay, improve it and grow something edible from Baker Creek in it next year. Carol, Since I haven't visited Baker Creek twice this year like someone here has (hee hee), there were a few things I needed and/or wanted. Since it has been several days, I don't remember everything I ordered but I did order Sungold Select II like Jay did, and Stewart's Zeebest okra, which I've wanted to try for some time now. I think I ordered some melons and squash because most of the melon and squash seeds I have left in my seedbox date back to 2003 or 5 or 7 (I guess I was buying only in odd-numbered years) and I needed some fresher seed. I'll still plant the older ones, but I'll have the newer ones in case the 2003 and 2005 ones don't germinate terribly well. Dorothy, Don't forget broccoli! I've already got broccoli seed for next year (Packman, I think) because I remember well the trouble you had last spring. The seedracks in the stores here always have some sort of Burpee broccoli seed and I don't like their broccoli varieties, so I have to order in the fall to be ready to start seeds in winter. It seems like broccoli that does well for us here is getting harder and harder to find. Y'all, I am sitting here looking at the Irish Eyes print catalog from last year and guess what? They will sell you "Discount Bulk Organic Seed Potatoes" with price breaks if you buy in lots of 100, 500, 1000 or 2000 lbs. Does anyone need seed potatoes in those amounts? And, can you imagine the shipping? I bought 2 5-lb. bags of mixed fingerling potatoes at CostCo today and they were less than $6 a bag. Fingerling seed potatoes usually run about $8 to $10 a lb. from seed potato companies so even though I don't know the exact vareties of fingerlings in the mixed bags, the price was right--slightly more that $1 per pound. I bet I can look at the fingerlings and compare them to the photos in the seed catalogs and figure out what I have in that mix because there aren't that many fingerling varieties available (as compared to, say, regular potatoes). Dawn

Like Fliptx, I had a problem with one of my orders, and they not only resolved it quickly, but sent me extra seeds for my trouble. Their selection for some vegetables (eggplant, cowpeas, melons, squash) is the best out there, including the largest selection of Asian vegetables outside of an Asian seed company. They are extremely active in the heirloom movement, with garden shows & a very engaging website. I'd give them a 5 on a scale of 5.