I am interested in your squash and basil. Please have a look at my trade list. If nothing interests you, would you be willing to send these out for a SASE? Thank you!

When the pods turn brown and dry, they split open and seed is dispersed by wind. Lily seeds are shaped sort of like lentils: flat and roundish. If the seed is thin as paper and transparent, it is not viable. If it is thick and has what looks like a tiny root inside, it may be viable. Good seeds are roughly 1/4" across. The only way for an amateur to test viability is to plant the seed and see if it grows. This is tricky, since different types of lilies have different germination requirements. For more information, visit the Yahoo Lilium forum or the North American Lily Society website, or use Google. The NALS articles are ultra-cute and ultra-optimistic, but still have some good information in them. In my opinion, growing lilies from seed is a fairly specialized skill and requires great patience. So I don't know why some people say it's easy. Maybe they are very good growers, so it's easy for them. For hybrids, you are much better off doing vegetative (asexual) propagation, such as scaling, stem bulbils, etc. The resulting plants will be genetically identical to the parent plant. The disadvantage of this method is that viruses in the parent are transmitted to the offspring. This does not happen with seeds.

Hi! I'm looking to try some candy lily seeds this year- I see old posts about these plants putting out lots of seeds and folks who have the, offering seeds for trade, but those were posts from a coupke of years ago. I'd also like to try some Elise Lewisia from seed. I have seeds to offer as trade, or SASE works if I don't have anything you want. I have seeds to offer: - pink echinacea (was in my yard when I bought it- very hardy, may be tenessensis variety or maybe just a standard pink?) - white swan echinacea - groundcover sedum: possibly fulda glow - a bit of dragon's blood sedum groundcover - some cardinal climber - a few seeds of different types of morning glory - general (common) edibles like lettuces, herbs Thank you!

Would love your marigolds - here's my list. Doreen. Trade list doreen kallfisch <ddkcat@yahoo.com> Nov 9 at 10:44 AM To Doreen Kallfisch Message body Flowers Celosia – Red [brain flower] Columbine – red [canadensis] Cosmos – orange Hibiscus [hardy] – Cherry red/Luna pink Million gold Pepper, Ornamental [capsicum annum] Phlox [hardy] – white,pink & lavender mix w/ bicolors Rudbeckia - Autumn Sun [r.herbstonne] Rudbeckia triloba [prairie coneflower] Vegetables & herbs Broccoli – Calabrese green sprouting Carrot – Nantes coreless Catnip Chicory – Blue southishe Cucumber -White spine/Marketmore 76 Dill Lettuce – Buttercrunch Peas – Sugar snap/Little marvel Pepper , bell – yellow/orange Pepper – Nummex Big Jim chili Pumpkin – Jack O'Lantern Radish – early Scarlet globe Spinach – Bloomsdale longstanding Thyme Tomato [heirloom] – Black Krim/Solar Flare/Hillbilly/Wins All/Rutgers/Great white beefsteak/Beauty king/Pineapple/Paul Robeson Turnip – Purple top white globe Vines Morning glory - mix [includes Milky Way, Grandpa Ott, ivy-leaf blue, Crimson rambler and various others] /Grandpa Ott Trumpet vine – orange/red Trees/Shrubs Crepe myrtle Hydrangea - white [Annabelle] Rose of Sharon – single pink w/dark eye/purple Vitex - purple Doreen Kallfisch 49 Handyboy Ct. Red Bank, NJ 07701