I have a large amount of seeds that are from trades I can't use anymore. Some are a couple of years old. All are good WS candidates or good for experimenting!! LOL I can't vouch for most of them as I haven't grown them. They are coming packaged as I received them, and marked as I received them.
I will be sending them at my cost to the right person. I am guessing by the time I'm done there will be at least 50 packs of seeds, maybe more.
Only thing I ask is you don't trade them until you grow them out and I haven't sent you seeds for postage before.
Old or new but please be a subscriber to Dave's.
Edited to say just tell me why you want or need the seeds!!
I will close this Sunday night, and post who is getting the seeds.
Good luck, Ronnie
This message was edited Sep 23, 2006 11:26 PM
CLOSED: Free seeds to one lucky person!!
Cap'n Ronnie !
Well I'll throw my trowel into the mulch :) (hat into the ring didn't seem appropriate...LOL) Six month newbie gardener, first time planning to wintersow.
But so many people to choose from who are newer here too, and some who have lost seeds or had them dumped by well-meaning people - or with new homes to plant from scratch!
Choose well, and thanks for being so generous, no matter who the recipient may be!
May the generosity you are showing come back to you ten fold.
~Sunny
Sunny me mate it already has!!!
Sunny, you are too funny. (Trowel in the mulch) LOL I will see you in the wintersowing newbie ring. I am new this year to wintersowing, too. When you start, we should communicate, so we can see what I am doing wrong. Haha. Let me know what kind of cool surprises you end up with.
Ronnie, you are so nice to do this for people. I really like what you are doing for people to experiment. with..I usually take a bunch of seeds from the bottom of my seed bin and put them in the ground and see what comes up!!
Is it an essay contest?
Suzy
I have never received any seeds from you and have rectnly moved into a new location where the land is bare, bare,bare...........Would love to get the chance to grow them out and then send them on next year to some other lucky dog.
Boy out of 96 veiws I only have 3 people interested!! WOW
LOL Paul
Dear Luvs,
I HAD a large collection of seeds, few or none of which I had ever planted. When I did plant things, either they never germinated or never got past the seedling stage. When I found out about WS, I was dee-lighted at the idea of sowing what I had been collecting for years. I have severe MS and have been living in a wheelchair for at least the last 12 years. This poses a problem because I can't get close enough to the ground to garden close up.
When I remarried in 2000, my new husband wanted to make me happy! He first built a retaining wall into the hillside. Then he made a flat place for my wheelchair to go, so I could reach the Wall Garden. Then he made a walkway from the driveway/sidewalk to the Wall Garden so I could get there from the house.
But I still haven't told you about the seeds. I had this large box of seeds, some annuals, some perennials, but all were pretty flowers. Some dated back to as long ago as 1998, but most of them were bought since I joined Dave's Garden. My idea was that if I WS'd them, I could hope to achieve a much higher than normal germination rate, and I'd be transplanting healthy, teenaged plants (or my DH would) instead of fragile, potbound stuff from the garden center, and for practically free!
One of the problems with being as disabled as I am is the necessary interference of others into ones home. Nurses, nurse's aides, and Personal Care Attendants are all putting things where they think they go. When I or my family looks for it where it usually lives, it's gone - ironed, bleached, torn up for rags, disposed of in a sanitary fashion, stored in the garage for the indefinate future, and when we ask, nobody knows what's become of anything. (?) Often it's to do with a language barrier, but also with diverging ideas of what's valuable. An old shoe box full of baggies full of old seeds or dried dirty stuff, along with some pretty seeds that were clearly past their expiration date (something the profession holds sacrosanct)? Clearly nothing anybody wanted. (!) Out it went.
Although I have replaced a few of the perennials I wanted the most and could find for sale in the summer/fall, most of them I cannot even remember. Please consider me in the race for these seeds!
xxx, Carrie
Well I certainly nominate Carrie in my place ;) (puts TWO trowels in the mulch for Carrie and digs through her gardening table to find a third ....)
~Sunny :)
p.s. I attached a gift that I received today, a visitor!
Wow, do you know what type that is? (Thanks for the trowels.)
xxx, Carrie
It's a red -spotted purple...Limenitis arthemis http://bugguide.net/node/view/2658/bgimage
Claypa wins...it is a Red Spotted Purple :) It was our first photo shot of a butterfly this year, and it keeps coming back. I think it is one of the most beautiful things I've seen. Not as entertaining as hummers, but.... :D
~Sunny
Carrielamont is going to recieve the seeds!! YEAH!!!!
Woo Hoo!!! Carrie, You plant them babies and ENJOY!! I know what you mean about the influx of people in your house. My son has Autism and Tourettes, and we have people here all the time from MR/DD, and they are always giving "suggestions" about how to make life easier, and "clutter" (their words) is not on the list. You absolutely have to let us know how things turned out for you!!
In my best Yoda voice.....Captain Ronnie, wise you see.
(applause, applause)
I think you made a great choice, and I am looking forward to Carrie's wintersowing pics! May they grow well, bloom early, and be bad-critter free!
Kelly, we'll keep in touch over wintersowing. I have pots and containers, space picked out...now just to figure out WHAT I can wintersow :)
~Sunny
Well I guess I no longer need to worry about where to acquire seeds in the fall... but yes, I will keep ya'll posted with lots of boring pictures of snow-covered WS pots, unidentifiable seedlings, weed-like growths, and, we hope, FLOWERS!
Thank you, Ronnie, for your generosity of spirit and of seed.
xxxxxxxxxx, Carrie
Your Welcome Carrie, I'm glad you answered my post!!!
Hineni, I had to laugh when you said those butterflies aren't as entertaining as hummingbirds....I spent about four hours one day trying to get a decent picture of one, and my neighbor was watching, unbeknownst to me. She was entertained, watching me run around the yard with my new camera. This is what I came up with, notice the healthy, vigorous lawn in August. If anybody is wondering, the red spots are on the bottom.
Congratulations on the seeds!
LOL Claypa - yes, the chase of butterflies is far more erratic and probably more entertaining to watch. Hummerwatching for me consists of standing very still and ignoring flies, mosquitos, ants (if I'm leaning against a post) and the urge to shift from one leg to the other - probably far more weird to watch than butterfly chasing!!!
My attempt to snap a Gulf Frit has lasted nearly a month yet, and still no shot (sigh). Perhaps one day...
Great shot of yours there, thanks for sharing!
~Sunny
me too, Ronnie!
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