Started at the bottom and working my way up. This is tedious! Does anyone know if there's a way to mass delete items in your swap list? Seems like everything from last year is on there & deleting one at a time is taking forever.

If there is I haven't found it. For me, after the swap is over I start deleting my list little by little. That way when a new swap starts I can just start adding right away.

I deleted them one by one. The cool thing is the blackberry lily seeds just needed 2018 added to the description and an updated seed and pack count. All the others where deleted and like you I was searching for some kind mass delete feature or something. It would be great if they had boxes beside each listing you could click on with a mass delete button at the top of the page. That way you could still keep the ones want. It's not really an issue if you only have a few different seeds but when members start listing many types of seeds it can be time consuming. Maybe this is a feature Dave could add to the swap. The easier the swaps are to use the more inviting they will be for other members to join in on the fun

Ya, a lot of what I offer are the extras from what I planted, or things I got in a bulk swap that I'm not going to use. So since I won't have them again, it'd be nice to delete them all at once.

I agree. It's been brought up before, but I don't know if it has made it to his to-do list or not. The more people comment about it to him, though, perhaps it will move up the list? He has to prioritize website work based on what impacts the most people and if he knows a lot of people want it changed, he might put it on his list or bump it up the list. 😀

It's possibly the ONLY thing I ever go, "oooh I wish this were a thing" when it comes to the seed swap app. It's otherwise basically perfect, which is a real unicorn as far as web apps go.

I ended up rapidly opening up a separate tab for every delete (held down control and click click clicked down the column of trash can icons) so I could just confirm and close the tab instead of going back to the list over and over. In Chrome you can zoom from one tab to the next with a keyboard shortcut - I think it's control shift right arrow - which let me switch to the next tab, click the confirm, not wait for the confirmation page and go to the next tab to continue confirming deletion. After I was done I could close the whole window with all the tabs in it. It cut down a little on the time it took to delete everything, but it was still pretty slow, especially since I had enough entries to make Chrome crabby with all the tabs. I definitely wished for a mass delete using checkboxes! I hope that becomes a thing!

One of the things I love about this site is his responsiveness to the users. A lot of other sites will pretty much ignore any user requests.

Please feel free to email Dave or to tag him in your posts with a request for an update to include that feature. That's possibly the only way he will know how important it is.

I just uploaded a bunch of seeds. When I checked to see if they were in the list, I noticed something I have found to be a problem. Here is the problem and how I work around it:

A single plant may be in several places in the full tradeslist. I listed Asclepias curassavica, which I know as Tropical Milkweed. I did not list the cultivar parent because it was not in the database. Mine is now listed under "A" for Asclepias. I knew other people had listed some as well, but mine was all alone. so I used the search term "curassavica". There are actually 6 listings. In addition to "A" for Asclepias, they are listed under "S" for 'Silky Red and Gold', a cultivar name, and "B" for Bloodflower (another common name I did not know), and "T" for Tropical Milkweed. In all there are 4 places to look for this plant. There would be even more if others were listed under other cultivar names, I think.

I really wish we could choose to list under the accepted usual method of Genus, species, and cultivar or variety. If that is too hard (it might be a lot of programming work), if the cultivars and varieties could just be listed after a comma after the species or something, so they would all be together. This will probably not happen, so my workaround is- if you get confused and think you already saw a listing for a plant while scrolling through the list, try using the search box with the species name.

DND if this post should go somewhere else, please feel free to move it or duplicate it.

Yes, I agree with that problem, Pistil. Although ~ I think the issue was discussed with Dave and he said it was too much work for him to change it to list everything under the botanical name. I don't know why.

I've noticed that too. Major pain when you are looking for something, for instance peppers. Now i have to look under sweet, hot, regular, bell... yes I can search by botanical if I know it. As I'm going through swap list, would be nice to have them all in one place. Im sure that would be a huge undertaking changing them all. Wonder if Dave would accept help on a project like that. Might also help avoid problem with new additions if the add page had a couple more fields to break down botanical, common and variety info, then put it all together again in whichever form the user wanted... hmmm now I have ideas about how I want to change my own database!

Hi Rockpile-
I recommend using my workaround for the pepper issue. I just tried it, just using the search term "pepper" in the full tradeslist which seemed the most generic word. It brought up lots of peppers, even a freetext one from Thomas called (and listed under R): Red devils tongue pepper. One might occasionally bring up a cultivar of something else with pepper in the name.

Mary,

Sorry that I didn't reply sooner, but Christine was absolutely correct in what she said. Because it wasn't caught at the beginning of the database entries, the difference in naming convention on the site/database has turned into too much a major project for Dave to go back and try to correct. I feel like their ought to be a simpler method of doing it, but I am not even close to advanced enough in programming to even begin to offer to help with it. It's too bad, because the database is such an integral and relied-upon facet of the website, but it has some inconsistencies that are hard to iron out.

Is there a place I can find previous years "print this and attach it to your seeds" lists? I recall previously being a bit discombobulated by the alphabetization system but I can't recall what exactly it was. I'm about to try to alphabetize my packets and want to streamline it so it's in line with the final list I'll get.

Julie, just go to your swap list for this swap (easiest to go to the full list & just search for yourself). Then you'll get an alphabetized list of all your offers & the common name the system calls them.

I should add those names to my packs but I usually don't unless my scientific names have been changed. I don't want people thinking I gave them the wrong pack!

Oh if they're the same that'll make things easier. I feel like last year I thought I was being clever and used my swap list but I still had trouble because maybe it might have used the scientific and not common name, but I have such brain fog lately, so I can't trust my memory on that. Sooooo many seeds to alphabetize, wheee!

Jimard!

You joined us! I have been waiting for you, lol. I am so happy to see you back this year. I was just wondering today if you were gonna come swap. I was getting antsy, lol.

@jimard8 -
I wasn't thinking I could do much this year either (the aardvark ate my homework), but I kept finding things in the yards of other people who are gardeners. And I see someone is interested in my Douglas Fir seeds I got from a cone in my neighborhood and dried on the kitchen counter.
I picked some seeds off a Stewartia tree this afternoon. Unfortunately when I read about them when I got home, I discovered they cannot be dried (like acorns, this is lethal) and require complex warm->cold moist stratification, with Gibberellins! So, I just did that, hopefully I will remember to deal with them and put them in the fridge in a few months. I don't even want a Stewartia (no room for another tree), but I can't resist a challenge, and the Autumn colors were so pretty on the mama tree.
I also got some seeds from someone's Pitcher Plants (carnivorous plants) in a bog in their yard. These will also go in the swap as I have no swamp.
Other things (like Jim's morning glories) just did not make seeds this year, here in Seattle it is often iffy due to lack of heat in summer.
I have also noticed that many of the best plants in my garden are sterile, like
Rozanne Geraniums, since they set no seed they just never stop blooming.

Besides the Grandpa otts and miniature white morning glories few seeds if any ,
The Zinnia some senna and a few is about all I will be able to do for seeds this time ,

A lot of seeds are still on the plants outdoors
Celosia, Zinnia for next year all still outside .

Even a few of my Echinacea did not bloom , ( i cannot even express how bad that is , but , that is why nature made another season ,

Karen for the welcome

Mary also , Cannot take seeds from neighbors here

Missed you too Jim! Had an awful season here too! Few pollinators this year. No seeds on any of my summer flowers, just the Spring ones. Too much rain & cool temps. If I didn't buy seeds I'd have pretty much nothing to offer.