hiya!
at my 5 kid's request i am looking for the following seeds:
serpant and speckeled swan gourds
green or blue corn
rainbow corn
chedder, green and purple sicily cauliflower
baby boo pumpkins
white pumpkins other than lumina
or any other fruit or veggie that is not normal looking, not regular color, is huge or miniature or is just fun to use to make things for crafts. this is for their own kid's garden they are growing this year.
will trade or sasbe for them. if you want to trade there are alot i don't have listed so please ask as i haven't had time to update my list lately.
i know this is probably the weirdest post ever but hey that's what they want for their special kido garden,lol.
thanks a bunch!!
silkie
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looking for odd things for my kid's to grow
I have some yard long beans and strawberry popcorn. Probably some other stuff I'm not remembering at the moment.
P
I'll send you the easter egg plant.
hey p!!! good to hear from ya again!! that would be great they'd love it. d-mail me what ya have when ya have time. also let me know if your looking for anything to trade again i have alot of different things than before when we did.
Cordeledawg-that would be awesome!! that's one of the one's they wanted most. are you looking for anything special?
please let me know what i owe ya guys for them and thank you.
when anyone replies please let me know if you want to trade or if they are for sasbe. if for sasbe i have to get more stamps today to do them that way i have enough stamps i'm running low.
thanks,
silkie
How 'bout trading ricyrtis mixed for egg plant? I'm in the exchange. Thanks Deb
Kid's gardening idea is wholesome and sweet! It will stick with them a lifetime, sorta like teaching them to fish, they'll eat the rest of their life.
edit: tricyrtis, misspelled
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i just realized i should mabe clerify my egg want. they don't want the normal egg plant like ya get at the store they want the one that has white eggs like in a bush/plant. we call them easter egg plants but other than that i don't know anything about them it is a novelty type thing. is that the same as the one you have?
thanks,
silkie
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I have Solanum sp. The fruits look like hen eggs, borne on small plants. I'll get it out to ya in the next day or so. I'm going out of town and need to pick up some bubble envelops and stamps. I'll let you know the exact day I mail it to you so you can be looking for it.
Deborah♥
kool i think that's it then. i should be able to get them out to you today.
thank you!!
Mary, I know the feeling about the kids and what they want for their garden. My granddaughter has had several of my old seed catalogs hidden in her room and she presented me with her own list for a garden spot. Of course we'll have to scale it down by about 50 yeards. haha. She has decided she wants a Japanese maple and mostly dark, black, chocolate, blue and purple flowers all over and around it. This is going to be a hard one, her dollar amount came out to $463.00. With all of what she wants, I'll be planting until they plant me in the ground. lol
We'll be doing some of what she wants here and there, but there is no way I can afford that. She loves to plant and play in the flowers, like her Nana.
Good luck with the boys, I'll add some extra seed for them with the swap. Not sure what I have in the other box.
Robin
Not that i have them, but there are some other great kid type plants.
Not sure of the spelling on these though.
The telegraph plant... desdomonia ... it spins its leaves in reaction to light!
Squirting cucumber ... echabalium ... it grows spiny cucumbers that when ripe squirt the insides out with force.
Of course there is Mimosa pudica.. the plant that drops it leaves when you knock it..
Asclepias physocarpa the swan plant ... also sold as "hairy balls" for obvious reasons.
I know there are more, but thats all i can think of right now.
Mike
I've got seeds for Job's Tears -- grows like a tall grass, and the seeds can be strung like beads. If they'd have fun with flowers that could be dried, I have Wheatstraw Celosia (C. argentea v. spicata), 'Flamingo Flower' and 'Pink Candles'.
I'm also thinking that 'Wild Cherry' tomato (tiny red currant tomatoes with huge flavor) would be a kid pleaser.
If your kids aren't so young that they'd eat the seeds (which are poisonous), then they might get a kick out of how *huge* a red castor bean plant will grow in one season -- I started a couple last year, and they were over 8 feet tall by the end of summer!
If they're interested in doing a "sunflower house" (circle of sunflowers with an open space to serve as a doorway, it should be easy to find sunflower seeds (not sure if I have extras or not), and I have mixed morning glory seeds from a mix of varieties I grew up some sunflowers last year. Oh, I see you've got MGs on your trade list, so you probably don't need those.
I've got some trade seeds of 'Jack Be Little' pumpkins, and I could spare half a dozen for a hill in the kids' garden. I've also got 'Sugar Pumpkin' seeds I saved last fall -- they're great for pies, and they look like cute little Halloween pumpkins, not really big enough to carve but fun to paint.
LMK if you're interested in any of these... we could do SASBE or trade for zinnia seeds. I'll see if anything else comes to mind.
robin, that sounds great make a note for anything not part of the swap who it goes for so i don't get confused. i shall send you back some extra goodies for your daughter too.
mike, ya gave me my first laugh today that was great,lol. i have never heard of some of those. i can just picture my 5 kid's running through the yard squirting cucumbers at each other instead of water guns. it would be a riot!!
critter, not sure what your top ones are they are new to me too. for tomatoes i got them lightning strike, green, purple, pink and yellow ones and i have little pink amish salad ones. most of these are heirloom ones so i am definately seed saveing them this year.
i had no clue what a castor bean was but i got green ones in yesterday i'm glad you said they were poisonous now i'm not sure what i'm going to do with them. boy the seeds are grogous looks almost like an egyption beetle or something. i'll have to look it up to see what info i can find on them and a pic.
i never thought to do a sunflower house what a great idea!! i have been collecting different kinds for them since they like them so much. mg's i'm set on. for pumpkins we have lumina, and 8-10lb ones unnamed and jack o lantern so if ya want to trade some for us both to have different we can. what zinnias are you looking for? i just got in more yesterday i have to look see what i have. what kind of sunflowers do you have? let me know.
thanks,
silkie
i have to go get kid's up for school but i partially updated my list for you all. mabe ya can find something ya like.
thanks,
silkie
Silkie, I'm tight for time this morning, but LMK if you can't find any of the things I mentioned in PF. I think Job's Tears are Croix laxima, but searching for the common name should work fine.
I've got extra MG seeds, but I don't think I have extra sunflower seeds... any tall one should work well, though, and ones like 'Mammoth' are easy to find (and cheap -- check WalMart, maybe the dollar store).
I'm interested in any kind of zinnias, especially purple or pink ones, but if you're sharing them from a commercial pack just keep them for yourself -- I've got several packets now, plus may have some coming from a trade I'm just putting together, so I think I'll have enough for the swath behind the veggie bed that I wanted to do.
Do the kids want some butterfly-friendly seeds? 'Bronze Fennel' is a fun one -- neat color, the leaves taste like black jelly beans, and the black swallowtail caterpillars love it.
Silkie, I have Shoo Fly Plant (nicandra). The seed pods are like little lanterns... great for winter bouquets, and the flowers of blue or white are quite nice, as well. Also, I have nasturtium seeds. Nasties are nice to look at and they are entirely edible, both flowers and foliage. If interested, D-mail me.
I just got another kind offer of zinnias, but if you want to just send me a SASBE I'll do my best to find some goodies for your kids' garden!
BTW, although I like their natural colors (grey and brown tones, some cream), I'm pretty sure I've heard that Job's Tears take paint and dye pretty well. The cool thing is that they have a soft/hollow core, so you can poke right through them with a needle to string them.
I've also got some different types of basil... please post on the SASBE offer in the herb forum if you want some of those, just to make it easier for me to keep track. If it says I'm "out" of lime or lemon basil, put it on your wish list anyway -- I have more seed, just need to make up more labeled packets. The neighborhood kids get a kick out of the different basils that I grow and love to sniff and sample them. (Yes, they know to always double check with me before eating anything!)
Edible flowers are a great idea for kids' gardens too... nasturtiums, borage, pansies & violas, some marigolds... perk up their summer salads by sending them out to their garden, bowls in hand.
Oooops! Yes, Critter is right... I've got borage, viola and marigold seeds. Also, snap dragons are fun. By squeezing their 'jaws', you can make them talk... at least they used to talk when I was a little girl.
If your children are young you might wish to reconsider the Solanum ovigerum aka Easter Egg Plant as it is in the Solanaceae family of plants of which most have parts that are poisonous. The fruit looks so much like hard boiled eggs, they might try to take a bite out of them.
X
Good point, X. I considered the awesome size of castor beans. I loved them when I was a child, but the colorful seeds are quite poisonous.
I don't have seeds for them, but oval, white eggplants do exist (the edible kind)... I think I had a plant one year called 'Cloud 9' that I thought looked a lot like eggs hanging from it when the fruits were young.
Terry's note here in PF http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1383/index.html mentions two Solanum species of "egg plant" -- one edible (or at least not poisonous). Here's the edible kind, http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/2017/index.html. It seems to me it might be hard to tell the difference, and I think I'd be wary of growing them around kids as X said.
Here's 'Cloud Nine', http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/68718/index.html
critter, i never thought about herbs, lol, i have nasturtiums, borage, parley and basil i can add those in for them. i did know nasties were edible. shoo fly and the others menioned above i don't have.
weez, i will check out your list again you always have such neat things and i loved the stuff you sent before please check out my list see if there's anything you'd like i can send you. you're always so helpful i'd be happy to send stuff your way too.
red, i'll check your list out too, please look at mine also. i always have fun tradeing with you too.
thanks you guys!!
silkie
Silkie I have a bunch of gourds I can send for postage, some broom corn too, that's neat for fall crafts. Dmail me if you want some.
lol, i can't keep up with ya all. i have to do somethings i'll post replies later.
thank you!!
silkie
ok, i d-mailed replies. thank you so much for the poisonous info. how do you actually know which is which?
thanks,
silkie
That's just the thing, I think you'd have to go by the name on the packet (assuming latin name is given, often it's not), and you'd have to trust that the seed company didn't have a mixup. Given the number of times people have bought seeds they thought were Vigna caracalla only to have them turn out to be P. caracalla -- both are known as snail vine or as corkscrew vine -- I'm not sure how trusting I'd be. I think I'd go for one of the white eggplants sold as a novelty edible and eliminate the risk of growing out the wrong "egg plant."
Have you seen the "Batman" pumpkins and "Tigger" melons?
Beth
How about a big patch of poison ivy for the kids to play in...hehehe ..... Only jokin.
Actually, kids would probably love some touch-me-nots... you touch the seed pods and the seeds shoot out like shrapnel. Of course you'd have a touch-me-not garden the following year!
yes i agree. lol that's funny you mention that i have both corckscrew fragrant and snail vine non frag. yes they are 2 different things and there is always a mix up with them.
no i have not seen either of those. do you know which company has them or where to get them?
OH, great idea, WZ! Silkie, I do have Balsam Impatient seeds (collected 2005, frost got 'em last year), and I'd be glad to include some for you... Mine reseed every year but aren't a nuissance since they're so easy to pull out from where I don't want them... Great plant for part shade, likes to be watered regularly. The explode-at-a-touch seed pods are a hoot!
This is what they looked like one year by my front walk...
Is anybody wanting to grow an "adult" garden? If so, I have the aptly named Red Peter Pepper seeds to go with Mike's vulgar asclepias. (I can't even type the name!)
Summer, I think that deserves to be a separate thread! LOL
the funny part was my hubby likes peppers(i know nothing about them really) so i asked him what kind of pepper it was if it was hot or a sweet pepper, omg i'm an idiot. you should have seen him laughing at me he knew what it was, then he explained it to me, rotfl. the bad part is i have never heard of them before i must lead a sheltered life,lol.
critter that would be great they'd love that, thank you!! that is a gorgous pic too!!
silkie, you HAVE to find a photo of these peppers.
Just don't blush as red.
Look them up in PlantFiles... but not if you're underage LOL... there's a quite striking photo there.
ROTFLOL : )
omg, rotfl i finally saw pics of them.
Silkie,I couldn't resist.I went and peeked too.
So you chicks got curious about the peter peppers but didn't blink twice at "h---- b----"?
Man. Thompson & Morgan has a picture that made me snort beer through my nose when I first saw it.
I confess I had to peek at both.LOL Critter made me do it!