Happy Valentine's Day!!

I'd like a Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce please.. if not already in my bag =)

Thanks so much, Becky! I'm so looking forward to this package!
Regina

Happy be-lated Valentine's Day everyone! I didn't really do much yesterday. Cooked the DH a nice breakfast & dinner. Saturday I started a bunch of seeds.

Today I heard birds tweeting and saw the SUN! It made me think of spring. I know it's still far away for me.

Just a little update All lettuce & tomato seeds are now taken.

Well, I have not received the last seed donation. So I'm going to call it last call for "last call." So tomorrow after work I'll finish packaging up people's seeds. I'll plan to mail them on Saturday.

Here's what's left. After today, I will be getting people packages ready to go to the PO. So today before 9 pm EST please post if there's anything left that you would like.

Here's the list:

Root Vegetables

Beets Detroit Dark Red (1)
Sugar Beets (1)

Carrots (2)
Carrots Nantes Scarlet (2)
Carrots Red Core Chantenay (1)

Turnips (3)
Turnips Purple Top, White Globe (1)

Herbs & Spices

Blue Hyssop (1)
Bouquet Dill (3)
Chives (1)
Cilantro (3)
Dill (3)
Extra Curley Dwarf Parsley (2)
Garlic Chives (4)
Golden Jubilee Hyssop (1)
Parsley (1)

Squashes & Pumpkins

Acorn Squash (8)
Butternut (2)
Delicata (3)
Field / Jack Pumpkin (1)
Jack OÂ Lantern Pumpkin (2)
Pumpkin (3)
Table Queen Acorn (1)
Waltham Butternut (7)
Yellow / Golden Crookneck (1)

Melons

Canary Melon (1)
Hales Best Cantaloupe (2)
Honeydew (2)
Keeper (1)
Sugar Baby (1)

Legumes

Beans Kentucky Wonder Pole (Another I added after getting a swap back)
Beans Tendergreen (1)
Hyacinth Bean Vine Purple (1)

Cucumbers Marketmore 76 (2)

Eggplant Black Beauty (1)

Tomatillo Toma Verde (2)

Peppers

California Wonder (1)
Jalapenos (8)

Corn/ Grain/ Cover crops

Corn Kandy Corn (1) (Yeah, I added it)
Red Pop Corn (1) (Yeah, I added it)
Buckwheat (2)

Miscellaneous

Broccoli Purple Sprouting (1)
Okra (2)

Flowers

Bachelor Buttons Polka Dot Mix (1)
Marigolds (lots)
Sunflower Mammoth (1)

Miscellaneous Ornamental

Birdhouse Gourds (6)

Almost missed this! Here's my list, whatever you have left:
Carrots, Nantes Scarlet
Carrots Red Core Chantenay
Blue Hyssop
Cilantro
Golden Jubilee Hyssop
2 Delicata Squash
Beans Kentucky Wonder Pole
Hyacinth Bean Vine Purple
Broccoli Purple Sprouting
What a nice selection! Thank you!
sewwht

Last call is now closed! Thanks for participating everyone. I hope you had fun & hope your enjoy your seeds selections. I'll post again when I've sent out people's packages and post again when I have a count of seed packages going to Need 4 Seed.

Becky

Thanks for all your hard work Becky!!

~Wendy / sassyb.

Well, the inevitable happened. I was packing, packing, packing people's packages and ....
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I ran out of packing tape! So, I'll have to get out early tomorrow and get it. Fortunately, There's a store accross the street from the PO that sells it.

The grand total of seed packets going to Need4Seed will be
~Da Dada DA!
400!!!!

Thanks everyone!

WOW ~ how neat is that?!
Thank you for all your hard work and dedication it really is nice to know that others will benefit from the swap as well. You have outdone yourself. If you feel the urge to have other swaps please let me know. I would happily participate again. I don't know how you manage to do it but I am really happy that you can do it! I had a really fun time trying to get all my seeds together and digging through my seed box. A perfect time of year to see what I thought I had, I did not have, and what I had too much of I could share. Thanks for taking the time to do this..
bgrow_gardens

That is awesome, Becky! The way we were snatching up all of those last call seeds, I thought there wasn't going to be anything left for Need4seed.

Great job!!!

Bonnie

They're all out & in the mail! Actual I was able to get the first 7 out yesterday between cases for work. I did delivery confirmations for all of them except for our friend to the North. I figure there's Customs paperwork. So maybe we can track it through that.

Sent 2/19/10
Carsons Mimi**** DC#0307 1790 0004 5258 8173
Sewwht**** DC#0307 1790 0004 5258 8142
AphroditeLaughs**** DC#0307 1790 0004 5258 8166
Slo Garden**** DC#0307 1790 0004 5258 8159
Jessew **** DC#0307 1790 0004 5258 8180
HighAltTransplant**** DC# 0307 1790 0004 5258 8197
FarmerGirl2009**** DC# 0307 1790 0004 5258 8135
**************
Sent 2/20/10
Lisa831 **** DC# 0308 2690 0001 4139 0572
SunnyK **** DC# 0308 2690 0001 4139 0589
Yotetrapper**** DC# 0308 2690 0001 4139 0565
Sonellina **** Customs #LC609801668US
Fleethart**** DC# 0308 2690 0001 4139 0534
Shinyalloy5**** DC# 0308 2690 0001 4139 0596
Ginabean **** DC# 0308 2690 0001 4139 0602
Bgrow Gardens**** DC# 0308 2690 0001 4139 0619
Dieg01991 **** DC# 0308 2690 0001 4139 2200
Sassybutterfly**** DC# 0308 2690 0001 4139 0558
Dirtdiggin**** DC# 0308 2690 0001 4139 2194
Luvgardening2**** DC# 0308 2690 0001 4139 0626
Need4Seed **** DC# 0308 2690 0001 4139 0541

I never did receive seeds from Spoonietreasure. I hope your seeds have found their way back to you.

Hope you enjoyed the swap!
Becky

Hi Becky,
I just want to thank you so very much for all your work. This has been the best swap I have been in. Not only because it is edibles, but the going once, going twice was so much fun. Have a wonderful growing season.

Ellie

Thank You So much for all of this!! I am now sitting patiently by the front door waiting til the mail comes tomorrow to see if my seeds come(it could happen) and I am going to stay here til they do....ROTFL,I love seed envy's! I cant wait to hear what went to need4seed...but take a break first LOL!

Thanks Becky
Donna

Wonderful donation to Need4seed! That is just awesome!! THanks so much Becky!!!!!!!!!

Hugs,
Wendy / sassyb.

Seeds arrived today. Thank you so much, Becky! Very nice selection. Every time I think I have this year's grow list finalized, I get another packet full of seeds in the mail! So hard to narrow it down, isn't it?

Thank you for hosting, Becky! You've done an awesome job!!!

Bonnie

Hey I missed the total to need4seed in your earlier posting....wow 400+ that is so cool! I am glad they are getting those seeds and to have been a small part of it :)

I received my packet of seeds today.... Wow! What an incredible selection of goodies. Thank you to all who participated and I'm especially glad Need4Seed received so many gifts as well.

I got my seeds today. Thank you so much, Becky! I can't wait to plant all of the fun new stuff.

Glad to see that some of you are receiving your seeds. Hope you enjoy them!

Becky

Thank you oh so much for all the wonderful seeds and for all your work that you put into this exchange. Have a wonderful gardening year.
Ellie

Hi Becky,
Just wanted you to know that I managed to get to the box today and O' Happy day there were the seeds! I had to let you know they arrived safe and sound and gadzooks what a selection. Let me know if you plan to do this next year. I will happily participate. You really pulled off a wonderful round robin. I really enjoyed it. I can hardly wait to get started at planting. It's going to be a great year to try new things in the garden!! I'm a happy camper. I am going to check out the need for seed site when I get some extra time.. You've done a great job, and helped others too. I for one am amazed at your organizational skills to keep everything straight, and you truly have the patience of a saint.
bgrow_gardens

My seeds came yesterday! Thank you so much to whoever sent in achiote/annatto!! So very cool, I can't wait to plant everything! It's the best of both worlds, I'm happy and donating seeds makes others happy too. I can even cross off a couple of things from my catalogue order list.
What more can you want out of a swap? Becky, I am definitely in for next year, and this time I will plan ahead!
Thanks All, especially Becky!
Tauna

Hiya Becky! Got my seed pkg today and I was very happy! I know I had some weird names on my list..lol I am very pleased and you did a wonderful job!

Hugs!
Wendy / sassyb.

I dont think I am going to get mine :(
I just put my DC# into the tracking bar at USPS.com, and this is what it says:
Acceptance, February 20, 2010, 10:26 am, SKANEATELES, NY 13152
Processed through Sort Facility, February 20, 2010, 9:12 pm, SYRACUSE, NY 13220
Processed through Sort Facility, February 22, 2010, 12:21 am, STAMFORD, CT 06910
Processed through Sort Facility, February 23, 2010, 12:41 am, SPRINGFIELD, MA 01104
Processed through Sort Facility, February 23, 2010, 1:47 pm, ROCHESTER, NY 14606

Usually once it hits Stamford the next stop is either Bridgeport(one town away from me) or right to Stratford....but it passed Stratford went all the way to
Massachusetts. Then right thru Mass. all the way to almost the Canadian border.

Goodness Donna!

It looks like it's headed back my way! I wonder what's up with that? That's why I brought them all to the post office.

I got my seeds today too!! Woohoo thanks for all the great seeds! Now I just need a bigger garden!! LOL :-)

Amy

At least if it comes back to you Becky, I wont feel so badly about the poor, lost, wandering seeds... LOL!

Donna

Rcieve my seeds today,Like to thanks everyone who send in seeds. Thanks for all your hard work Becky.

Lisa

I'm so glad people are happy with their selections of seeds!

Donna, I wonder if the mailing label fell off and that's why it's headed back my way. There were quite a few packages where I just put the new mailing label over my address.

That could be LOL!! I am going to keep tracking it to see where it ends up...this is pretty interesting in itself ROTFL!!

Becky,
Thanks, the seeds arrived safely. You did an excellent job selecting seeds and you should be proud of the work you've done rounding up seeds for nee4seeds. BRAVO!
Thanks to everyone who contributed, I'll have to expand my small veggie beds. (Wonder how many of these I can pass off as ornamentals?) And thank you Bgrow for sneaking a peek at my wish list.

MARY

I'm with Amy - now I just need a bigger garden..

Thank you all for sharing your goodies and thank you so much Becky for the incredible collection of fun new things to try and for all your hard work executing this swap for all of us and the folks helped by Need4Seed!

Regina

I'm so glad most have received their seeds and are happy!

Well Donna, your seeds seems to have made there way back to Skaneateles! I haven't received them yet, but checked the tracking. I think they'll come back here tomorrow.

In the meantime, I received Spoonietreasure's lost seeds! When was it you sent them? February 6th? A few of the bean packages ruptured in transit. Fortunately, I participated in the bean swap! So I know what a lot of beans look like. LOL! I hope there aren't anymore postal follies!

We're suppose to get hit with a big storm tomorrow. Donna & Spoonie, I'll try and get seeds back out to you on Monday.

I am so glad they found their way home to you instead of being lost forever....Well I would have rather they made it here with out you having to go thru this a second time, but at least they are safe.

I dont know if we are going to get that storm like you guys will....the weather forecaster says we are getting big mess of sleet to rain to sleet to snow and a snow mix lasting til almost Saturday...but I am keeping fingers crossed for just rain at this point since Sunday is my daughters sweet 16. So I am doing a big family dinner with her sisters, and their families, coming down from the northern part of the state and I dont want to have to worry about the roads being nasty. . Normally I love snow, but at this time of the year I want to start looking out for snowdrops and crocus and SPRING!!!

Stay warm and dry. And I am still excited about my seeds LOL!!

Thank You for doing so much for us!!
Donna

Checked the DC# this morning. And They made their way back home to you Becky. Kind of like lost dogs who find their owners after they move 200 miles away...LOL!!

SunnyK
Donna

Becky, Thank you so much for all your hard work! I don't know how you do it, and keep it all organized!
The selection was amazing! Hurry spring!!
And thank you everyone else for contributing to Becky's huge
project, Need 4 Seed, and to our gardens!

Whew! Glad to be back! DH and I were working in Albany today (usually about a 2 1/2 hour car ride.) We are getting a S**! storm right now! It took us 4+ hours to make it back. We passed quite a few accidents. When we got back, there was 6 inches of snow in the drive way in the parts our plow guy could plow and 10 inches in the area near our walkway we here he can't plow. This is on top of the couple inches I shovelled this morning. We're still suppose to get more snow!

Anyway, I'm glad more seeds are making their way to people. Donna I have your seeds inside right now. Sure enough the mailing label came off! I'll get them back out on Monday. I'll make sure the label doesn't come off this time!

Eeek..that is a boat load of snow!! You guys keep it right up there near you.I have had enough with the 2 straight days of rain :(
And now the weather guy has the icecubes to threaten me with snow for tomorrow and Saturday...I cannot have snow, ice, sleet or any other fosty-ness this weekend or early next week. There is just way too much I need to do that requires driving...or people driving to me *Hmph*

Thank you for resending my seeds...You are a doll!!!

Donna

Well, I woke up this morning to find 8 more inches of snow in the driveway! I shoveled enough just to get the car out (we parked at the bottom of the driveway for easier access, thank goodness! Other wise I think I'd still be shoveling.) That took me a half an hour. I hope our plow person comes today!

Got to work to find the side street to get into our parking lot hadn't even been plowed!!! So I'm feeding the parking meter outside our building right now!

And to think I saw crocuses starting to come up in someone's yard just a few days ago!

Think Spring!!!
Becky

Got the seeds! Thanks so much-think spring! I noticed crocus sprouts for the first time today, so I'm already doing the happy dance!

Well, I wound up getting a parking ticket Friday at work - miserable Syracuse! I'm going to fight it.

I finally have my car dug our and unstuck. Hurray! Now we can use some sunny weather. I'm glad to here there's crocuses blooming just to the south of us.

Hope everyone is enjoying their seeds. Donna & Spoonietreasure, your seeds will be going out tomorrow.

Wooohooo....I am so looking forward to seeing my new seed stash!! Thanks for resending mine:) I am sorry that the sticker didn't work the first time :(

Donna
Crossing Fingers that Fridays snow was the last of the snow til November.

Seeds are in the mail!
Donna DC# 0308 2690 0001 4139 2231
Spoonietreasure DC# 0308 2690 0001 4139 2248

Spoonie, I forgot to put a note in with your seeds! Also Spoonie's seeds went to Need4Seed but I did not fill out a DC for them.

If you're not enjoying spring yet, I at least hope you have some melting in your neck of the woods!

Oh, I forgot to post. How could I forget this? Need4Seed sent a BIG heart-felt "Thanks" for all the seeds. They're deeply appreciated.

Thanks everyone!

Got my seeds today WooHoo!! I got in late and just finished dinner, and I am really exhausted. So I will open the package tomorrow , as I want to relax and enjoy going thru the seeds :) Thank You again for a fantastic job Becky...you are a peach!! :)

Donna,

So glad you got them. Hope you enjoy them!

I will take detroit red beet and all radishes. I can send you Cuban calabaza squash and cascade tomato.

I find this pretty confusing for my old brain. I'll just send my seeds to reach you by the deadline of Feb 10 and you just send me whatever edibles are left over. I'm easy to please. If the edibles are all gone, I'll take flowers for zone 4, my granddaughters would love them.

Duh, talk about being confused, we aren't doing any flowers, hence the title "Incredible Edibles" - ha! My bad. I'll send the wish list too, but again, I'm easy to please. Thanks for all your hard work on this.