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Tree seeds buy/swap

8 years ago

Hello All,

My husband and I are finally ready to buy out first patch of land and I want to start a food forest. I looked at the tree seedling prices and almost fainted. So I will be growing tree seedlings from seeds. Here is my santa list (I am in zone 6): nitrogen fixers (siberian pea, acacia, mimoza, varietal cultivars of seaberry, etc); fruiting trees (apples, pears, plums, cherries, persimmon, olive, peach, apricot, etc.); nuts (hazelnut, locust, pine, etc.) sugar maple, elderberry, and linden. That's a long list, but I need to start now so they are fruiting in 5-10 years.

Here is what I have to trade: a SL of different tomatoes of all colors, sizes and shapes; carrots, beets, peppers, eggplants. In tree department: aronia and wild seaberry. In livestock department there are red wiggler warms (vermicomposting), field mice and opossums :) In flowers there I have calendula, facelia, crimson clover, oilseed radish, borage, sunflower.

If you have something to share or trade (or if you simply want some of my bounty) - please PM me.

Cheers,

TP


Comments (25)

  • 8 years ago

    I dont have anything on your list to share right now, but I might have a cheap seedling lead for you for next year even if many are out of stock this year. Check your state dept of forestry tree nursery! You can get everything from pawpaw to aronia to walnut to persimmon. I have mulberries, hazelnuts, and lots of pollinator plants to anchor creeksides coming this year. KY has pawpaws grown from KSU's premium orchard seed. WVa has american chestnut. Price and selection obviously depends on the state, but my favorite is George O. White State Nursery in MO. They are always in great condition, big roots, variable ship/pickup date, and we are talking $0.80 a tree for quantities of 10 and the price goes down at 25. I believe there is even a youtube video to check out their product and operation. Good luck with your land!

  • 8 years ago

    Wow, thank you for all the information! I will definitely check all of it.

  • 8 years ago

    I am so bummed - I missed MO's nursery order deadline by 5 days. Oh, well... Maybe next year.

  • 8 years ago

    Sad days!

  • 8 years ago

    Hi Tatyana,

    You have an impressive list. Would love if you can share any seeds that you have in excess. I'm a newbie so dont have any to trade but will be happy to send postage. Please PM me. Thank you

  • 8 years ago

    Where are you located?

    i should have black currants blooming now should have seeds if birds don’t eat all. It’s their plants they brought them into my garden. Black locust later.

    you may want to add redbud and dogwood for color.

    jo

  • 8 years ago

    You also want to try Xmas tree farms they order more seedlings than they can plant.

    also if you can plant sunflower s the birds that eat the seeds bring in other seeds. No bushhoging. That mows down seedlings.

  • 8 years ago
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    hi tatyana - i have some of the things you are looking for - some cherry plums of different types, seeds from a firm white flesh peach, native black cherry (wild type - prunus serotina) and mimosa (persian silk tree, just in case you meant a different "mimoza").

    i also have a couple live baby sugar maples, they are rather common here, so i plucked a few volunteers last year and stuck them in a pot. in the fall i would have a ton of fresh seed for the sugar maple (its best with these to be fresh).

    i would be interested in golden beets, or maybe some other beets, maybe some of your tomatoes, wild seaberry, crimson clover, maybe something else if i saw your specific list.

    i just went to PM you, but your messaging settings arent set correctly to be able to message you.

    you have to manually turn it on, in the advanced settings page - https://www.houzz.com/settingsAdvanced

    down towards the bottom under "privacy settings". click on update when youre done.

    if you want to trade, PM me when your messaging settings are correct.

    one more thing - since i also plant a lot of tree seeds, and am on the look out for those - i will refer you to this site, they have a LOT of seeds for interesting perennial edibles - https://www.treeshrubseeds.com/catalog?ID2=0&c=1

    they sell in bulk, but all of their seeds are available in "packet" sizes, for $3 - 5-30 seeds depending on size...

  • 8 years ago

    I don't have any seeds to trade but you can buy some fruit tree seeds at good prices from oikostreecrops.com. They have packets of 10 to 20 seeds for about $5 per pack. I bought a couple of wild goose plum trees. While small they both survived and are growing. They shipped fast also. It will be a couple of years before I have any seeds.

  • 8 years ago

    I will have pear seeds this fall but for now am interested in doing a preemptive trade for carrots, worms, sunflowers, etc, or just arranging a future trade. Please email me if interested. I also have cider apple tree seeds ready now!

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    ^^^ wants ^^^


    =)

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    another seed site worthy of mention, actually i think this is my favorite --

    JL HUDSON seeds

    quite a few trees, and also many unusual perennial seeds there. =)


    (hint - you get further in a search using genus and species, latin names for plant families, for both this site and the one posted above)

    yeah, do contact me tatyana if you want to trade.

  • 8 years ago

    That’s a good site Leila, thanks

    jo

  • 8 years ago

    yw. i have gotten some great seeds there, really interesting varieties, good prices and good amounts, good germination.

  • 8 years ago

    Anyone hear from Tatyana?

  • 8 years ago

    I was wondering the same thing, haven't heard anything back yet.

  • 8 years ago

    Sorry for dissapering on you guys, life got VERY busy. Teaching, raising two boys and gardening require at least 36 hours each day! On the happy note - I am almost done planting (for the lack of space mainly :) Joe- I would really appreciate the black currants, those are my favorite, if the offer still stands. I will try to save some pawpaw seeds this fall, we had some at the farmers market last fall. I hope we will have more this year as well.

  • 8 years ago

    Here is the picture of my carrots, planted in March. These are growing along the most amazing Garlic bulbils I got from ebay.

  • 8 years ago

    K.

    Will try to root cuttings of blk currants.

    those darn birds keep planting the seeds everywhere.

  • 8 years ago

    I wish I had the bird problem :) PM me when you get them out to figure out the payment. Thank you!

  • 8 years ago

    Tat, where are you located?

    dh feeds the birds. He is retired, not well so his new jobs are walking the dogs, feeding the birds and keeping a journal.

  • 8 years ago

    That’s a nice job! I am in Cincinnati Ohio. I will pm you my address in a

    minute.

  • 8 years ago

    Tatyana, as of this spring, I now also have sugar maple seeds if you are into making syrup, pawpaw seeds, and apple trees for cider. I would be happy to trade! The apples and pawpaws have already been stratified but the sugar maples would need cold stratification. PM me if interested!

  • 8 years ago

    I will take all three. Sending you a pm.

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