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Come join us! - 2nd Annual Tomato and Pepper Seed Exchange

15 years ago

Hi everyone,

As a Canadian member, I am unable to post this note in the exchange forum. I do hope you'll be ok with me posting here as I wanted to extend this offer to the US and International gardenweb members as I did last year.

I am hosting another Tomato and Pepper seed swap that will include members from a few different forums. I wanted to post this a bit early so you had time to collect seeds or place an order. Here are the guidelines we will follow for this swap.

1) Seeds must be received by me no later than October 30th, so I recommend you mail your envelope no later than October 15th. Please note that I live in Canada.

You can send "named varieties" of tomatoes or peppers (or both). Do not include mixes or seeds labeled "granny's mystery mix" or anything like that. I cannot, in fairness, send mixed or unknown packs of seed back to people that followed the instructions and only sent in "named varieties".

2) A minimum of 10 seeds per packet. A maximum of 5 packets of the same seed. An overall maximum of 30 packets per person.

Please ensure seed packets are clearly marked with the name, and whether they are heirloom, OP, or hybrids. If you are sending pepper seeds, it would help me a great deal with sorting if you could indicate if the peppers are sweet or hot as many individuals in the last swap had clear preferences. If seeds are from a commercial source, please note that as well.

3) If you send tomato seeds, you will receive tomato seeds in return. The same idea for peppers, unless you include a note indicating you are open to receiving either in return.

4) Please include a list of what you are sending, your wish list and if there are any seeds you do not want to receive. If you are only interested in heirloom or OP, please tell me that as well. I will try my best to accommodate your wish list, but there are no guarantees of course. The variety will be completely dependent on what is sent in. In last year's swap, we were able to fill many items on people's wish lists so please take the time to prepare one - it will be worth your while.

5) You will need to mail your seeds along with the correct amount of return postage as follows:

* If you live in Canada - $1.18 return postage stamps

* If you live in the US - $1.24 (CAD or US$) (includes tax)

* If you live outside Canada and US - $2.49 (CAD or US$) (includes tax)

All postage rates can be verified on the Canada Post website. For individuals in the US and International, please ensure your envelope is no larger than 6.1 x 9.6 inches (156mm x 245mm to stay within this price range). It's important that you send a regular bubble envelope and not the heavy cardboard insulated type. Weight restriction in this price category is 50g.

For those outside of Canada, you will need to send enough funds to pay for return postage. You can either send cash in the envelope or you could submit payment for postage via Paypal. Please do not send cheques as they cost me more to cash than the cost of postage. Please do not send stamps from your country. They will not work here.

6) If you change your mind after registering, and no longer wish to participate, please please please notify me immediately so we do not delay the swap waiting for your seeds to arrive.

This will also save me a great deal of time trying to follow up and track people down.

7) I will email you privately with my mailing address once you have posted here to sign up for this swap. You must make sure that your gardenweb profile has your email address attached so I can contact you. Please check this before signing up for this swap.

Any questions. Please let me know. Let's have fun trading!!!!

ThanksŅHeather

NOTE - I will be on vacation from August 21st to August 31st and will not be responding to email during that timecolor="#0000FF">

Comments (16)

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Sign me up please.

    Linda

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    sign me up

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  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    I enjoyed your exchange last year - your whole operation was delightfully well-organized. Thanks for doing it again (and of course sign me up).

    Happy growing - Rick

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Welcome to the exchange everyone. I have sent you private messages with my mailing address.

    We're up to 26 participants so far and we just got started! Wow! We're going to have a great variety.

    Any lurkers out there? Come and join us....you know you want to :)

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    I am soo in on this one. :) Kathy from Texas aka Fila

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    i would like to participate though with about 15 or so different varietys growing in a cluster together im positive most if not all of my seeds would be unknown hybrids

    =(

    booo!!

    next year though! im in!

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Hi Juicyj,

    I wanted to email you, but your email isn't set up on your gardenweb profile, so I'm hoping you read this posting.

    Just a thought, but a number of the participants have bought commercial seed packets and shared some of those for this exchange. It's a great way to expand your collection. Most people don't grow all of the tomato seeds they get in a commerical packet and they're usually at least 10 seeds leftover (our minimum) that you could swap for other varieties.

    Food for thought. There is lots of time left to buy a few commercial seed packets (some for you...some for swapping). The deadline isn't until the end of October.

    We're up to 33 participants so far, so there should be lots of good variety.

    Thanks....Heather

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    I'm very interested. Sign me up please.

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    count me in

    Thanks
    sam

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    thats a good suggestion!
    i might be able to do that

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Hi everyone,

    I've received a question and a suggestion and thought it would be worth clarifying in this open forum.

    This swap is a surprise swap. I will be guided by your wish lists or preferences if you choose to send me that information, but I cannot guarantee anything. What you receive in return is completely dependant on the seeds that are sent in. Most of us that participate in exchanges love the element of surprise. I recognize that some do not, but those people would not typically participate in a group exhange like this.

    I was asked if I would be willing to create a public web page and post all of the seeds that have come in and people can pick and choose what they want. The simple answer is no. That's not the nature of this swap. Please understand that it takes a lot of work to compile the information and organize everything to manage a swap with this many people and I just cannot get involved in that kind of complicated work. I fully expect to be receiving at least 3000 seed packs that have to be managed. I work 12 hours a day on average, so I need to keep it simple for me at the moment.

    I have been involved in swaps like that in the past and I do not favour them personally. For the simple reason, that they often end up being a free for all and those that have the luxury of being on the computer at any time during the day, always end up getting first dibs on the more rare seeds. Not fair at all to those that work during the day and won't get to their computers until night. The folks that have limited computer access ultimately end up feeling disappointed and disadvantaged.

    I believe the swap can be handled fairer by taking into consideration everyone's wishes. I do my best to be fair and make sure you're getting a good selection. Compiling a wish list or even letting me know if there are seeds you do not want helps to guide me through the process.

    It's certainly a good idea, but it's an idea that's best implemented by someone else hosting another swap with a different theme.

    I hope this helps to clarify. Please let me know if you have any questions.

    Thanks....Heather

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    A quick update...we're up to 51 participants...woo hoo!!!

    Everyone that has signed up has been sent a private email with my address. If you haven't received it, please get back in touch with me.

    Thanks....Heather

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Hi everyone,

    I'm just leaving on vacation and will be back on August 31st. If there are any questions or signups, I will respond to you when I return at the end of August.

    Thanks....Heather

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Sounds great! Count me in!

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Sounds like fun. Count me in.

  • 15 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    I want in!

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