Tom I would love to share seeds. but I have none you wants. lets find something. I might have hot peppers I got in trade. I started mine. REpotted wrinkled old man, sarit gat yellow, Chinese 5 color , sweet pickle, purple prince. will do my small bells next week.

just had back surgery yesterday my old body is not doing to good give me a little time I want to trade with you I have all kinds of super hot peppers and I love tomatoes also sorry I am kind of messed up between the pain I was having and now the surgery.

Here’s what I’m sending in, simply because I can’t grow these here and I will love it if they find good homes:

Mesclun, Endive, Swiss Chard, Pak Choy, Okra, Carrots, Beets, Turnips, Squash, Pumpkin, Cukes, Canteloupe, Cabbage, Eggplant, Romain, Dill, Collards, Broccoli, Sunflowers and lots of Peppers.

Here’s my HAVE List

Better Boy tomato

Delicious tomato

Early Girl tomato

Red Russian kale

Olympia Hybrid spinach

Black Seeded Simpson lettuce

radishes

lots of different kinds of carrots

and gourmet lettuce types

fresh Cubanelle pepper seeds

marigolds

zinnias

different basils

Parsley

Cilantro

Chamomile

Chives

Morning Glory

Butterfly Pea

Poppy

Phlox

Hibiscus

Gaillardia

Datura

Coneflower

Cosmos

I hope to see more people posting their Wish Lists so I can start packing!

Where’s yours, Michael?

Just noticed this SWAP. Does extending it another week include today the 7th? If yes I'm in.

I'll post a partial wish list for the garden genie on the Grant Me a Wish thread and maybe add a little more later.

Michael, is there a deadline to post wishes on the Grant Me A Wish page? What is our new mailing deadline?

Tom, Just do your best and keep us updated! Please look at what others might have and add a few more things to your list maybe.

SusieQ, LOL I just got a wishlist posted on the thread. Wow you have alot of stuff to offer that you can't grow! Thanks!

Zeak Rice, yes it does. Tomorrow is the last day for sign up and then its just games, packing seeds and getting them mailed.

midwestfarmwife, I would prefer if everyone have their wishes posted by sign ups tomorrow or early next week.

Okay everyone here is some new info.

Mailing Date: The week of March 11th through the 21st. That should give everyone time to pack and that way I can hopefully get them back only a little after the first day of Spring for anyone who wants to get planting!

Mailing Address:

Michael Haftl

811 Washington Street

Walnutport, PA 18088

Current Players:

1. browneyedsusan_gw (still need a wishlist)

2. Tom Jones

3. midwestfarmwife

4.skyblue52

5. ishareflowers(Lisa) (still need a wish list)

6. SusieQsie_Fla

7. mcc371

8. Zeak Rice

9. Me (heavenlyfarm)

If there is anything wrong or I missed you, please let me know! Also feel free to spread the word and see if we can get another player or two by the end of the day tomorrow! New players still welcome :)

~Michael

heavenlyfarm

GAME ALERT!!

Here is a set of word scrambler for you guys! Post your answers here this week (10th-16th) and if you get them all right, I will enter you into a drawing for a gift-card to either swallowtailseeds or sampleseedshop. (your choice!) I will pick the big time winner on the 17th!

1. NPGSIR

2. PLMA

3. NQXEUIO

4. IAMGC

5. SPLUIT

6. TLOBTE

7. THRWOG

8. GDENIESL

9 DDLAANI

10. EREHT ISSHEW

I checked and these should work LOL bare with me, I just did these on the fly just now! BEST OF LUCK EVERYONE!

~Michael

I'll join the swap Michael! Will work on my wishlist and get it posted.

Michael do we post the words here or send them to you...if we post them then the others will see the answers????

Feels like a long weekend. Ready to get back to seeds. everybody is perking up. Just hope the weather would. Gonna pull my seeds out and try to cover the seed wants also. Michael Ill send in and you can send out to the group. starting my coleus today!!

I updated my wish list and have almost all my seeds packed.

Can I still join?

luvsgrtdanes, welcome and yes houzz mail me your answers!! LOL I had a brain fart...

midwestfarmwife, look at you! lol I haven't even looked at what seeds I have yet lol

hibiscusfan, yes you can, just please get a wish list posted!!

With the addition of them, that is the end of sign ups now :)

~Michael

I am sorry I am going to drop out I am not doing to well. Thanks you

Tom, sorry to hear that. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Updated my grant me a wish page.

My guesses

Spring

Palm

equinox

magic

tulip

bottle

growth

seeding

alidad Hubby helped with this one said- its a surveying thing..lol

three wishes

Browneyed Susan, what are your wishes?

All mine are packed except for browneyedsusan. Do you have anything specific you want, or do you want us to surprise you?

Same here, I'm ready to mail.

Lisa, you missed the "n" in the 9th one ;)

Browneyed Susan, I messaged her earlier in the week and haven't heard back so I'm gonna assume she is dropping out of the swap.

I have received a package already!! WOW. I will check it in a little bit and update this

Thanks for everyone who is playing!

P.S. We finally got our Spring weather here! All of a sudden its not 30s and today was 69 degrees and so nice! I even pulled grass from the strawberry raised bed. It's been a disaster since last year, I'm hoping to weed as much as I can pull out, plant some new plants from Stark Brothers and then mulch with newspaper and cardboard with heavy mulch on top to hold it down. I really hope that will give me the advantage this year in my fight for homegrown veggies and fruits! LOL

Any plans you can think of for your gardens this year?

~michael

I haven't even checked our raised strawberry bed yet. It has been too rainy, cold, and windy. Every year they cascade over the edge of their bed and take root in the ground below.

Package Received:

Zeak Rice :)

I sent my seeds out this morning.

I’m having a bit of a struggle gathering enough pkgs of seeds for everyone to grant the very specific wishes. Most of the Wish List plants .....I’ve never even heard of. It takes me a while to research the seeds in my stash to see if they will work.

But today I grabbed the newly ripened milkweed pods to harvest the seeds for two lists and that helped.

I just hate to send you wonderful folks a tiny gift.

~~Susie

Package Received:

Zeak Rice

luvsgrtdanes

SusieQ, Just do what you can and some people even have want lists on houzz that you can get to on their profile if your looking for suggestions.

hibiscusfan has decided to withdraw because of a lot going on! I hope you get more down time soon! Everyone, please let me know if you would like seeds that you sent for hibiscusfan back or distribute them as extras!

Everyone, only a few more days to pack and mail those seeds! Get busy genies!

~MIchael

I don't remember if I filled any of her wishes but I don't want them back if I did...you can pass the along or keep them.

My seeds were mailed yesterday. I sent bonus seeds, so please return the ones I sent for hibiscusfan so I can save them for someone who specifically wants them in the next swap.

my seeds went in the mail today. I have a tracking number if needed. it shows to arrive saturday.

Mine will have to be friday. I will get it out then .

Package Received:

Zeak Rice

luvsgrtdanes

midwestfarmwife

ishareflowers

I haven't forgotten about the winner for the game! I will have the bf pick it tonight or tomorrow and post tomorrow with the special winner!

BTW, I would just like to thank everyone so far for how well everything has been packaged and grouped! It makes it much easier on me and should speed up the turn around :)

~Michael

Hey Michael

My package went out Wednesday and you should get it tomorrow. The postage costs more than I enclosed, so I’ll send the difference that you have to pay.

Also, I taped a label with my address under the label with your address so all you have to do is pull the top one off and Voila! Well, that’s the theory—hopefully it’ll work for ya.

Have fun!

~~Susie

Package Received:

Zeak Rice

luvsgrtdanes

midwestfarmwife

ishareflowers

mcc371

SusieQ

I believe I am just awaiting the arrival of skyblue52s package? I will begin sorting tonight and tomorrow!

Susie, I got your package and don't worry, I will take care of everything with return packages LOL sounds good to me. Also the return postage was 5 dollars and I stand by it, I will take care of any differences in return packages!

ALSO! yes Dan, the bf, was home this morning and we sipped coffee, played apples to apples and I had him pick a winner for the swap from my container of names!

WINNER: luvsgrtdanes !!! CONGRATULATIONS

Message me and let me know which place you choose and I will make sure you get your giftcard :)

Btw, since we usually do games here and I was playing apples to apples earlier, I was thinking how many of you guys actually play board games or card games still? Do you guys enjoy doing word searches and scrambles outside of swap games? I used to always do the word searches with grandma after school and me and Dan have been having a good time playing Rummy and apples to apples. I had actually not played rummy till we did but it was fun!

~Michael

I am so sorry to hold everyone up. hope it will there there by Friday. Michael did you see my PM with the tracking?

Oh wow thank you Michael I will message you with my choice!!

We play board games and card all the time when we go camping. Scrabble is my favorite...clue, rummy, battleship, war...lots of them!

skyblue52, I'm sure everyone is okay with waiting another day or two for your package to come :) I just saw your message with tracking info :) Sounds good

luvsgrtdanes, sounds like a fun time! :)

~Michael

I'm sorry, I had a catastrophic health issue and forgot that I had signed up for this swap. It is too late to participate and I wish you all the best.

Susan

Susan, I'm sorry you couldn't make it in time! I hope you'll consider and join my swap in the future! :)

Everyone,

I just received Susan's (skyblue52) package today! I have sorted all the seeds and am working on return packages now! I am a busy bee but I hope to have most of them mailed tomorrow if not all the packages!! :)

Thanks everyone for joining and I hope you will like your new seeds!!!

~Michael

heavenlyfarm

Michael I pmed you about the extra seeds.

Susan, I messaged back. Let me know what you think :)

Return packages started mailing today!!!! I got it all organized last night mostly and some packages went out this morning with our errand and BK run! Lmao

Return packages mailed today:

skyblue52

SusieQ

luvsgrtdanes

Be on the lookout!!!

~Michael

heavenlyfarm

Looking forward to it!

Packages mailed today:

midwestfarmwife

Zeak Rice

mcc371

Thanks Ronnie, I'm glad you like your seeds!! and super glad, you got them speedy!

~Michael

heavenlyfarm

Got home yesterday and my pkg was in the mail! Thank you to everyone who sent seeds in for me. I can’t wait to see them grow. What a blessing! Thanks Michael for hosting this swap, it was lots of fun!

Hope everyone has a beautiful day!

Tammy

My seeds came today - WOW! What a nice selection of seeds! Thank you so much to everyone who participated and sent seeds marked for me, and thank you to Michael for hosting. Can't wait to get these growing now that we're finally getting some sunshine. Yippee, spring is here!

Hello Genies I am thrilled with the assortment for our small group. I am now gonna do a small selection of marigold in pots for my deck. thank you for the extra peppers . What fun to grow.

I got my seeds in the mail and have already started several varieties tonight. I am so impressed by the amount of packages and the wonderful assortment of flowers and plants. You guys have really amazed me with your generosity and I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

And thanks so much to Michael for making my wishes to Genie come true. I had lots of fun during the swap and now is when the sowing-and-growing adventures begin.

This year I’m experimenting with K-cup pods to start my seeds in. Anyone else doing that?

I've never heard of them.

Thanx to Michael for hosting the Round Robin {my favorite kind of SWAP}. It was great and now am READY for the spring n summer. Thanks for all of the seeds sent my way. I will seed them, grow them and get seeds from them for next year. Also will give some extra seeds to a local seed bank in a local Library. Thanx again to everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!