What: 2017 Spring Plant Swap
Registration Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2017 at 7:00pm
Trading Begins: Tuesday, April 18 at 7:00pm
Trading Ends: Wednesday, May 3 at 7:00pm
What: 2017 Spring Plant Swap
Date: Saturday, May 6, 2017
Time: Noon to 4:30 pm
Where: Jan's place in Pennsville, NJ (Just across the Delaware Memorial Bridge). Directions will be posted at a later date.
Who: NGA Members and their guests (scroll down thread for list of party-goers)
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE
You will notice that trading ends Wednesday evening before the swap. This is to allow those persons that may begin travelling on Friday enough time to prepare their swap items.
This thread is for chat about the 2017 Spring Plant Swap. We'll use the seed swap tool to make pre-swap requests. A link to the swap tool will be provided at a later date.
As with the seed swap in February...
• I know a couple of people may just keep lists on the side and not utilize the online tool, and some may simply bring their plants to the swap. That’s fine! There are even a few people each year who come just to catch up with friends and “talk plants” with people whose eyes won’t glaze over in 3 minutes. It’s all good!
• Instructions will be posted below on finding and using the seed swap tool.
• Once you've put a variety on your list, remember you need to click the box to "activate" it for this swap. (The online tool saves the descriptions so you don't have to re-enter them for different swaps.)
• The seed swap tool limits the number of requests you can make per day. This helps "share the wealth." Within a few days of the swap starting, you'll have more than enough 'dibs'
• You can use the “wish list” feature of the swap tool at any time to make note of seeds you’d like to put “dibs” on during trading.
• Please respect the start date (TBA) and the way seed swap tool works. Don’t ask people to set aside plants for you ahead of time, and don’t promise listed plants to people before they have officially called "dibs" on a packet.
• Please use the tool to request plants. The discussion makes this pre-swap-day trading fun and exciting, but making requests in multiple ways defeats the ease of using the swap tool. Use this thread to chat up what you have, ask questions, gauge the interest in a particular variety, or to say, “I just put dibs on your purple firecracker seeds, thanks so much!”
• If somebody wants to offer seeds in a different way, that’s fine, but please be considerate and use the tool when requesting seeds from the online list.
