@okieheart Where are you located?

Central Oklahoma zone 6b/7a.

okieheart said:Central Oklahoma zone 6b/7a.

What about some purselane or portulaca? I have seed for both if you like? Terri

okieheart said:Good suggestion but I cannot grow thyme for anything. I've tried repeatedly and kill it every time.

kill it every.......thyme? 😂

It's officially begun in my house! I just put four packs of Cape Sundew seeds in the swap! I collected them tonight, got them right in the baggies and into the list! I'm excited!

Ok, question. I'm trying to save seeds from my amazing tomatoes this year and I did spend a lot of time looking up how to do it and then still biffed it thanks to improper planning and many of the seeds appeared to have sprouted a tiny bit.

However, I planted two of the most sprouted-looking dried seeds just to see if they'd still grow and today I find that they are in fact growing!

Is this just because it has only been a few weeks since they dried, so they were still alive? Will they be too dead to revive next year? I'm going to start again with new tomatoes regardless but if these other seeds are still good I'd love to be able to add them to my collection and the swap. I just don't have enough experience to know if they'd still be viable next spring.

The "sprout" bit is so tiny that I had to use a microscope to really see that it was actually the beginnings of a tiny white root. I don't know if that info helps, haha.

I need to update my swap list too. I wish I could help with the tomato seeds but I never seen them germinate while still in their little gel pods. Those seeds sure want to grow

It's my fault - I started soaking them just before labor day weekend even though I knew I was going to be busy and not able to dry them out. After realizing this a few days AFTER labor day I doubled down on my mistake by rinsing them off in preparation for drying them even though I knew I wasn't feeling well and probably wouldn't have the energy to actually lay them out to dry.

So, having soaked and rinsed away all the protective anti-sprouting compound, the seeds, now in fresh clean water, started to barely sprout. I didn't notice until I finally started to lay them out to dry. BOY was I mad at myself, haha.

I'm glad I didn't throw them all away though. If they may still sprout I don't want all the time I spent going to waste - I don't have a lot of extra energy lying about!

I'm feeling very accomplished, though! I sorted all my existing seeds into keeping, trading all and trading some. There's a LOT OF SEEDS in the to-trade bags! 😁

Very excited to start getting those bagged up and ready to trade.

Also I hope you guys like beans, I accidentally a ton of beans this year.

Anyone going to have any daffodil seeds this year? I've never seen a pod on mine.

No daffodils, but fritillaria!

wow those are neat

Joolie said:It's my fault - I started soaking them just before labor day weekend even though I knew I was going to be busy and not able to dry them out. After realizing this a few days AFTER labor day I doubled down on my mistake by rinsing them off in preparation for drying them even though I knew I wasn't feeling well and probably wouldn't have the energy to actually lay them out to dry.

So, having soaked and rinsed away all the protective anti-sprouting compound, the seeds, now in fresh clean water, started to barely sprout. I didn't notice until I finally started to lay them out to dry. BOY was I mad at myself, haha.

I'm glad I didn't throw them all away though. If they may still sprout I don't want all the time I spent going to waste - I don't have a lot of extra energy lying about!

I'm feeling very accomplished, though! I sorted all my existing seeds into keeping, trading all and trading some. There's a LOT OF SEEDS in the to-trade bags! 😁

Very excited to start getting those bagged up and ready to trade.

Also I hope you guys like beans, I accidentally a ton of beans this year.

If that happened to me, I'd probably keep them for myself (because there's no harm in trying them, right?) But offer bmthe new ones for trade.

I had cosmos, beans, and something else sprout in the pod. Looks weird to see a cosmos growing not of a cosmos flower! And my peanuts, which were almost ready to harvest, got hit by the perfect weather and started germinating, so I have those growing. I forgot how long until harvest, but if needed I may move it inside.

Thanks, I think I'll do that. No harm in keeping them for myself, and I just got a couple more tomatoes to seed so I should have plenty!

okieheart said:Oklahoma had some crazy weather this spring. We got really warm in Feb, then below freezing, then warm, the freezing, etc all the way into mid Apr or so, then flipped to broiling hot. My spring plants broiled before they could set seed, early summer stuff got hit by below freezing temps, so I'm hoping for a really good fall garden to compensate.

Sorry I'm late to the game, but I'm with ya Okie. I'm from OK too and it was miserable this year. Between our weather and my husband. No gardens this year. What little I do have in seeds is a miracle. Luckily, my hubby gave me a greenhouse for Mother's Day and it is now in full swing. I'm really hoping there are some things in there that will go to seed by January for the latter half of the swaps this year. I've been so disappointed this season. The only reason I have brad's atomic grape tomatoes is because in july I decided to start some in the greenhouse. I'm tickled pink sometime this weekend or the first of next week I get my first summer tomatoe!

I'm so glad you have the greenhouse, that's awesome!

Today's tomato news: I got 100% gemination on my test seeds, so I guess that's a thing. Guess I'll see next year if they work out for me! If not I think I have a few left over from the original packet. 😁

Awesome, Karen! I want a greenhouse, but our goal is to move out to the country. So for the near future my dreams of a greenhouse will have to wait.

I've started packaging seeds of flowers & veggies I've been collecting for about a month that are now well dried. I'll offer some new ones thanks partly to successful plantings from seeds I got in last Fall's DND & NFSR swaps & a few I bought. Then there's the dozen or so old faithfuls from my yard. Watch for my seed list to be complete about mid October. These swaps are my main source of seeds now for 3 years. Everyone offers a great variety

Oooh, Tabby! That is so exciting! I love it when someone plants something off the swaps and then is able to offer more of it the next season. That is so cool.

Thanks on the greenhouse. I will say this has been my learning curve and getting ready for the first winter in it. Everything is in but the heat and that will come in the next couple of weeks. Before frost, lol. I really did not know what I was going to do with the greenhouse. I thought this is kind of expensive for one huge milk jug for winter sowing, lol. But, in the end, it's so much more. I'm not happy with one of my tomatoes. It produces but still. It's kind of nice having the greenhouse knowing that I can start another one and keep eating off this one until the second one gets here. I also lost a pack of bee balm seeds. I managed to get 4 off one sowing a couple of months ago and so now I've been dividing those 4. When I pinch the tops, the cuttings get planted. It's been nice having the greenhouse to get them started without having to worry about bugs and weather. I thought we finally got rid of the grasshoppers but in the cool down, they came back in droves. The greenhouse has been nice to protect them.

We also live in the country and I really didn't think there was that much need for one. What am I going to do with all this space? Well, not so much space right now. With taking overwintering cuttings right now, it's filling up fast. But I can say the few months that I have had it, even when empty, has been worth it. Chuck ran me a misting system and included drip lines so it's really been nice. If anyone else is going to invest, my biggest piece of advice is buy all the space you can afford. Second thing, ventilation. Get one with plenty of automatic windows, lol. After that, the rest is easy peasy as far as water, lighting and heating.

Well, I"m off to gather a couple more seeds. We had 3 days of rain and the last couple of days I spent getting fall/winter gardens cleaned up. There was grass everywhere but now, it looks like I'm getting ready for spring. While cleaning, I found a coneflower I had bought this year and it's blooming to beat the band. Nice. At least that's one more seed I have to share this season, lol.

Does anyone recognize this? In typical fashion I lost the tag, and so far no one can ID it. My last ditch effort is that I got the seeds in one of the swaps on here. About an inch long, reminds me of a carrot shape, and turns bright orange when ripe.