cont. from previous Spring Swap discussion.
I just cut and posted my last notice to keep the thread up.
We've got one vote from hart for the 26 th so far. Let's see some hands guys.
OK I checked my calendar and here's some suggested dates for the fall swap. August 12, 13, 26, 27 or Sept 1 and 2nd. I know everyone probably has plans for Labor Day weekend but maybe we could do it that Sunday? I have no objections to it. Hart you said you would like to reserve the weekend of the 26, do you know which day of the weekend you'd be doing the picnic? We can also look at the second weekend in Sept as well if no one has any objections. It may have cooled off abit by then too. My yard is pretty shady and if it's too hot we can take the trading back into the deep shade of the big spruces in back. I have the gazebo and a lot of shade back there so we should be able to be very comfortable back there. We'll fire up the grill to for lunch too. I was thinking by then my veggies will be ripening and we can make some fresh veggie kabobs to throw on. I'll also spring for some hot dogs and you guys can bring the buns. Let me know guys!
By late summer I'll have some red hens and chicks budded out to share. May not be very big but I'll pot them up as soon as I see em and start nursing them up. I'm going to sow some winter vegetables as well to share. And most of my herbs will have grown out and I'll have rooted cuttings of them. I was also going to try to root some of the monstrous boxwoods I have too.
If no one has any objections I was thinking of inviting the high school horticultutral class to attend as well. They grow out plants and sell them to raise money for the class. They only sell the plants for like a dollar a piece but it helps and I though it would be good for the students to come pick our brains about the many ways to grow things. We should train em early about the fun of swaps too! Well if you guys have any other ideas let me know! I"m all ears and greenthumbs (well brown and dirty right now).
Luv Jenna
Fall Swap in VA/Jenna's Place Discussion cont.
26th is good for me too!! :) I was so sad I missed the last one!!
26th seems good for me aswell...:):)
Maybe Chantell and I can pool a ride and anyone else. How does it sound .?
Tweety
Hey I am there with ya on the 26th, I can even offer the car for the carpool!
tweety,
Sounds good to me!! Maybe Becky would like to join us, too!!
Chantell, I do believe we posted at EXACTLY the same time! :)
Yeah...you know what they say about "great minds..." So humble I is!!! LOL
Great!!!! sounds like a plan .
Stafford....Woodbridge..Centerville. We are doing goood....:):):)LOL
I'm not sure what I'll have to share, but I would definitely like to come!
Eva
I would love to join in the swap.That date sounds fine to me. As long as it takes place on a week end, I'm totally flexible. It will be so fun to meet other gardeners! Just let me know how I can find out the location and possibly directions. Thanks.
Possibly the 26th, or Labor Day for me.
Let me know when you want me to post this in the "RU's at a Glance Fourm...
Hey folks...Trueepicure is a great gal...I met her at the Phoenix RU this spring....
Lisa...How do you like my home state of VA? I lived in many places of Virginia...and WV. I won't be in VA until the first week end in October...so I can't make this one. IF I can be of any help...just Dmail me. LOL Jo
Hey there RR! Thanks for the kind words. It was great to meet you, and I hope that I see again some time! Hope to see you at a round up again sometime.
Where is Jenna? Haven't heard from her in a while. Jenna, you okay?
Labor Day would work great for me, but I can't do late August.
What's the scoop on the plant swap? Was a date settled on?
I haven't been able to contact Jenna at all, bluejuls. I've tried posting here and calling her at home. Left a message on her answering machine maybe three weeks or a month ago and heard nothing back. I'm thinking perhaps she's had some kind of family emergency because she hasn't posted here since shortly after the spring swap.
Obviously it's not going to be this weekend, which if fine anyway because it's certainly far too hot and dry to dig anything. I don't know about you all, but late in September or early in October would be a better time for me to be digging plants than August, especially this year.
Maybe we could find someone else perhaps in the Warrenton/Rappahannock area, maybe even Manassas if that wouldn't be too far, which would be pretty easy for those of us out here and the people in northern and central Va. I think if we get too far east or west, north or south it's going to make it hard for those who live in the opposite direction to get there. What do you all think?
Go here and find the members in your area...Dmail them. Jo
http://davesgarden.com/memberlist/viewby.php?area=state&arg1=va&offset=3480
There's a nice park in Rappahannock, right outside Washington. Would that do? It has a playground and a lot of picnic tables and the tables are under cover.
I sold my house there two months ago, it'd been sitting there mostly empty for years.