As they say, better late than never! I got my seeds today! Thanks everyone for the wonderful seeds! I was bummed about the snow interrupting my wintersowing but it has been melting rapidly. This weekend is supposed to be nice so I can get back to filling some jugs!

I meant to tell everyone that wanted daylily seeds that if they had any specific crosses they'd like me to make for them this summer to let me know. This way I can offer them in the next swap. Of course it's all dependent on what survived the winter. I usually lose a few each year.

And a special thanks to Libby for being an awesome swap host! I really love the bonus seeds you sent!

Now back to sorting seeds and figuring out which ones I'm going to plant this weekend!

I'm happy you got them today! I wish you didn't have to wait for them, but I'm glad it didn't take until this weekend. It's good that the snow is melting and you can get back to your winter sowing, I can hear the happy l'il seeds jiggling in their ziploc baggies saying 'Pick me! Pick me!'

You are more than welcome for the seeds and it really was a pleasure hosting the swap for all of you...it's always more fun investing time into something like this when its for friends. Good luck with the sorting of your seeds!

I've already got snapdragons, pansies, violets, campanula & salpiglossis growing indoors. I need to figure out which seeds will go best with what is already growing.

I have new kittens indoors , nothing growing and trying to keep house plants has been a chore , Their are a few that have sprouted outdoors already as wintersown , some will probably have difficulty out there , others will do well ,,
Wishing you all great Garden blooms

jimard8 said: I have new kittens indoors , ...

If you have been drying seeds on paper plates, consider moving them from plates to paper envelopes as soon as possible, like after separating green or soggy bits.

You can paper-clip envelopes closed to kitten-proof them.

And you can stack 4-6 envelopes upright in a cardboard tray made from cutting cereal or cracker boxes in half the long way. Standing them up lets air circulate better. And you can put 12-18 varieties in the soacee taken up by ONE paaper plate.

I have GOT to update this with decent photos of envelopes in cereal-box-trays! These photos are like "Before" or "how-NOT-to-do-this".

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Rick I use cereal boxes for everything over the years ,, from art canvas , to drying boxes , You have good one there
These kittens ,, would jump bite hold, and destroy the entire envelope ,, Rick I would have to hang those from the ceiling ,

One was helping me plant Anemone and Snapdragon a while ago today ,, etc New Gardening Kits?


Here it is ,, the new Gardening Kit ,, Only been on the market for five months ,,, We will have to see how it does .

Rick and any ,,,, Here is my label test sheet ,,, oh well almost ,

I like your 'gardening kit', Jim! What a cute way to 'organize' and 'plant' seeds, LoL! The picture that you had...is that your list of seeds that didn't grow well in your garden?

Printer I had Broke DnD , I am trying to reset my labeling with a new printer , That label test sheet I have a lot of those seeds , all grew , it omitted a few pictures and a tiny bit of info ,, I will get it right eventually

I love your gardening kits too. They are so sweet. I think I could use a couple myself. Any chance you'd send them along?

KarenHolt Said | Quote |Any chance you'd send them along?| Quote |) Well the Kits do have cages ,, require more food than most , and the fertilizer is only good trees and shrubs that mature after it is composted ,
They travel okay , but require special handling ,I will send them if I find a economical way to do that ,,

DnD . This was an early attempt at pruning .


I think I will put them back on Dig ,, Bug chasing &spraying , and mouse mole and vole detail Only garden kits I know of that self spray chase away insects , and trap rodents , Last here is probably their best feature and really unique as far as I know ,,

That kitten LOOKS innocent, but he doesn't fool me.

>> These kittens ,, would jump bite hold, and destroy the entire envelope ,, Rick

Got it. I didn't think about that.

>> I would have to hang those from the ceiling

Reminds me of Flanders, NJ, where I had a bird feeder hanging from a tree limb, over my head. One day I found it one ground, torn apart, with four BIG paired holes punching CLEANLY through tough, heavy-gauge plastic. Bears had been sighted in the neighborhood ... or maybe it was a relative of your kittens.

My cat is amazingly cooperative some of the time. But I would never put seeds on top of anything he feels he owns, or wants, or is curious about.

I love having dogs. ..their only curiosities are stuffed playthings, anything that drops on the kitchen floor, and critters that appear on the TV. (Well, and occasionally the tissues in the smaller trash cans-yuck.)

I have an older fifteen year old cat , Does not get interested in anything except when I dig ,, Him and several feral get interested in the soft earth , for an outhouse , little house toilet , lavatory , litter pan ,,,
Anyway you say it not good for seedlings ..
Sooo I think I will drop it now ,,

on to more positive ,,

Several seeds I want to sow .. it is warm enough to grow a few lettuce ,, this goofy or different weather pattern is good for some bad for others ,
I am up to about 40 different sown now . lot to look after , some easy some not ,

40 seeds of different types? (Regardless, that's a lot!) Keep up the good work! I wanted to plant a bunch of daylilies and a few of my flower seeds indoors under grow lights this past week, but it hasn't happened yet. I'm hoping I'll have the setup done by next week so that I can really get a jump on growing my daylily seedlings out this year.

DnD As far as Daylily My two dozen roughly year old planted out front are doing okay , The other part of the garden there are half dozen being swamped ..
My attempts are okay ,, I do much better most of the time with wildflower and so called weed type flowers ,,
Hoping my Red Volunteer returns ,,
as said Vegetables and Wildflowers are easier usually do well ,, Last season was an awful for tomatoes here ,,

jimard8 said: I have an older fifteen year old cat , Does not get interested in anything except when I dig ,, Him and several feral get interested in the soft earth , for an outhouse , little house toilet , lavatory , litter pan ,,,
Anyway you say it not good for seedlings ..
Sooo I think I will drop it now ,,

I've gone over to ALWAYS covering recently-sown seeds with chicken wire. I weight it down with bricks on the edges.

That keeps cats and squirrels from plowing the seed bed after sowing.

I tried hot pepper, but it only worked weakly, and we get a lot of drizzle that disables the pepper.

RickCorey said:

I've gone over to ALWAYS covering recently-sown seeds with chicken wire. I weight it down with bricks on the edges.

A few sheets or screens of chicken wire I have ,, Not that much though ,
Good idea , Lots of times covering with a little stinging nettle and such keeps several out of most seedlings ..