Littlecheryl said: So I don't want to bid on something if someone else wants it. Is there a way to keep track of that?

Don't worry about it too much, it's all part of the fun. If you really want, you can always un-request one of your items to make it available to others, but know that the system doesn't refund your ticket for that item, if you do that.

jimard8 said: Lc) Burdock Aster (wild) Coneflower (purple) Catnip (older wild varieties ) Lettuce
Nettles , Black eyed Susan ,(perennial)
Snapdragon , (most) They will all grow places with a few hours of morning sun , some reach for the sun a little ,
violets ,
A few types of Iris will ,,
I do not have many shade goodies ,, There are some in the trade lists

Jimard, I did not know snapdragons would grow in shade. Mine get full sun and do beautifully. Nice to know since I have a shade garden.

Oh yes, snapdragons don't need full sun. I always try to grow some each year because no matter what they keep blooming and they can take cold weather. I love them!

This year was my first year growing them. Just the standard mixed, tall variety. I love them as well. It's why I decided to add more, lol. I think I'm going to actually order the Aroma series from swallowtail. It seems no one in the groups I belong to like them as well as I do.

Jimard, if I have enough dibs, I'd like to get the pink guam as well. It seems to be a shorter plant and I like how it grows and the color.

KarenHolt the Guara is one of those plants you never know about , it might grow 1 ft , it might grow five ft , like asters do ,,

My Spanish Snapdragons are still green . Their a dry sunny place plant , what all the Snaps have n common , Bright Light is all they have to have
I will add the Guara , it also offered

I added a mealy cup sage
and a leaf sage ,,,,both a salvia

I think I have 5 or 6 different snapdragons listed. A few were added recently so you might want to check them out.

bx Snapdragons are a great butterfly and bee plant ,, I have a few picked out

I have several (not all) of your snaps earmarked bxncbx. 20 more minutes and some just might be mine! Lol.

KarenHolt said: ... If I am told that someone wants something specific, I'm just adding it to their bag so they can save their dib for something else. Make sense? ...
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That's very kind!

But I think that you'll find, after the first few days of the trade, that everyone has requested everything that they want the most, and most things they want very much. By the last few days, everyone will have lots of dibs tickets left over and can request anything they want, until they get to the point of requesting seeds they won't even have room or time to sow for more than a year.

Giving the wish list seeds as a gift instead of a trade is kind. Some variety might "run out" before they request it, or they might not see that you added it to your list. I'd urge you to keep a list of those gift packets, though, so you can add them to your "shipping list" when you package up all the seeds going to DnD.

BTW, I just thought of another reason to request more seeds than are requested from you.

SOMEone has to receive more than they give. The numbers CAN never balance exactly. Wanting to get into the "plus" column motivates us to think of seeds that would be desired by many, but no one can predict what others will want most.

Thanks Rick. I just didn't want anyone to think I was being greedy. I have a huge yard that is bare. There is definitely no way I could afford to order the things that I want and it just so happens alot is being offered here that I do want. I am starting from scratch on my flowers so this is a tremendous help to me. Plus I like knowing that what I have received have come from some really generous people that are giving me my start. In turn, someone will come along and need the help I do. I hope to be able to post pics of what has made it into my garden, meaning what I haven't killed from the get go. That way everyone can see what and how it did here in my garden. :)

I'm a stickler for lists. A friend walked into my house the other day and wanted to know what my dinner list hanging on my fridge was. I just died laughing. I thought, he'd hate to see what my desktop looks like. Post it notes that cover the screen and notepad lists everywhere. I'm massively about organization. I only offered the seeds to put in someone's pack because they were noid's. If someone wanted the risk, it was worth it to offer instead of list it.

I've tried using lists and calendars to get organized. I lose them.

I put several "wish stars" on your red petunias. If no one else grabs them, I will be requesting them in a few days.

That would be a great follow-up to this trade - before and after photos of a bare yard!

Karen, I'm a list person, too! I don't consider myself the super-organized sort, but I defintely have super-organization on some things (much less on others). Beyond the typical grocery lists, etc, I like to clean my house by going into each room, creating a list of everything in that room that needs done, proceeding to the next room and doing the same, and continuing in that fashion until I have a whole-house list of everything that needs cleaned. Then I get to cleaning. When I learn new things, I find I do great at lists (atleast for short-term memory). A couple of my friends in high school couldn't understand how I could take a whole list of Spanish words and memorize them 5 minutes before a quiz. It didn't work great for long-term memory, I don't think, but lists definitely help me learn. I think it's a vestige of when I had really sharp visual memory and could remember exactly where on a page in a textbook the answer to a question was, etc... (I'm not really like that anymore, though.)

But I digress...

RickCorey said:

That would be a great follow-up to this trade - before and after photos of a bare yard!

Dnd, I have to make lists. Just so I can remember. When I was younger, I was always told I have a mind like an elephant because they forget nothing. It came in handy. The older I get, the less I do that way. I'm pretty sharp, but not that sharp anymore, hence the list making. If I write it or type it, it's commited to my memory.

Well, let me hook my tablet up to my computer and pull off my bare yard and possible gardening spots. I actually had pics of all my flowers this year but someone took my phone and sadly, no pics this year of my veggie garden or my pitiful gardens. But a couple of weeks ago I went out and took pics of certain areas of my house and so forth so that when I sit down and plan my garden, I don't have to walk outside in the freezing weather, lol.

KarenHolt said: ... a couple of weeks ago I went out and took pics of certain areas of my house and so forth so that when I sit down and plan my garden, I don't have to walk outside in the freezing weather, lol.

Smart. I keep trying to make scale drawings or mini-maps, but my drawing skills are so non-existent that they aren't really useful.

Ah. Mine skills are just as week. So I went to get graph paper since I can make a circle. So I sit down, look at my pics, then I draw circles on the graph and make my list for that particular bed. Each bed goes on a seperate graph sheet. I am too organized sometimes, lol.

The computer helped me. I used to make lists and then lose them.

Now the lists (or maps) are always in the PC so I CAN'T lose them.

Google maps' sat photos are almost detailed enough for me to use as starting points, but not quite.



Here are sketches that look fine as long as they don't have to really MATCH the real garden:

Beware of the Heydra monsters , their a sometime occurring in garden bed set ups I enjoy the maps of the garden beds Rick ,, I am not that neat anyway

Two headed furry monsters do exist ,,, eeek !!!! oops

I did some more winter planting today .. a few a day .. Like a one a day vitamin ..

Jim, you're missing the final right-angle-bracket in that lightbox. Let's see if I can counterfeit it:



Hmmm, I'm still not sure ... do you have a double-headed cat? I only see four paws ...