Earlier this month I received the package I look forward to each spring with great anticipation: The You Grow Girl Canadian Round Robin Seed Exchange package!
I noticed that this year the vegetable seeds by far outnumbered the flower seeds that were in the package. Since I’ll be growing from seed only those vegetables I can sow directly in the ground or start outdoors, I grabbed from the package the following varieties:
- Romaine lettuce
- Tuscan Kale
- Detroit Dark Red Beets
- Cherokee Trail of Tears pole bean
- Salad Scallions “Delicious Duo” (purple and white salad onions)
- Radish “Rudolf”
The following three I’ll be able to start in pots outside in my little greenhouse:
- Cucumber “Muncher”
- Small Pie Pumpkin
- Golden Zucchini
I also picked out Large Seeded Tall Sunflowers. I hope to get an annual cutting garden going at one end of the vegetable garden this summer.
Do you participate in any seed exchanges?
Related Article: Attending a Gardeners’ Seed Swap: A Guide to Trading Annual and Perennial Flower and Vegetable Seeds, by Amy Urquhart
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I’ve never participated because I simply don’t have the room to grow many things, but I think it’s a wonderful idea…and look at all those lovely seed packets! Just like Christmas!
Exciting, I love getting new seeds in the mail. I am just starting up a similar Round Robin seed swap for trees. If anyone is interested they can visit http://www.earlyforest.com/2009/03/tree-seed-exchange.html
The package is on its way to me next… hopefully it will be there when I get home! I can’t wait to poke through it. What did you put in the package this time around?
I used to organize seed swaps at Garden Web (Canadian site) and I participated in lots of seeds swaps. I found that lots of similar types of seeds were always turning up in the seed swaps. So lately I rely on seeds that I have saved myself and those I can swap individually for so that I get the ones I want.
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