2015/16 Homegrown Goodness Seed Swap

[reed]

zeedman, there are lots of ways to put your lists out on the web. I'v worked with lots, GoDaddy, Homestead, Wordpress  and so on but my favorites for ease of use are Google docs, and the website builders weebly.com and wix.com. Google docs just comes with a Google account and it's free. It has a word processor and spread sheet but unfortunately not a database.  If you have your lists on your computer you can just upload to your account. You can make it public on the web, share with just particular people or make it private.

Weebly and Wix both have free versions which is all you might need and paid versions if you want to sell on line or something. Weebly makes it easier to do add in your own HTML ad CSS code if you want but most people don't really need that. Wix runs on  HTML 5 which is especially cool if your into that sort of thing but you don't get need to write you own. A lot of people just use blogs which might suit your needs. Don't know about face book, it creeps me out too much. PM me if you have specific questions, no guarantees but I might be able to help. 


 

[kazedwards]

toomanyirons what an obnoxious list. Really is an impressive collection you have there. Thanks for sharing.

[zeedman]

This is the soybean supplement to my previous listing, the year last grown follows the name:

Aan Tu Bai Hua Lu Da Dou (15)
An,dunscaja (15)
Bei 77-6177 (09)
Bei Liang 11 (07)
Besarabka 724 (14)
Blackeye (07)
Cha Kura Kake (14)
Crest (10)
Dv-2371 (12)
Early Hakucho (12)
Ezonishiki (12)
Fledderjohn (14)
Gaia (bi-color green & black, from recent swap, age unknown)
Gardensoy 12 (14)
Gardensoy 24 (12)
Gion (10)
GL 2216/84 (10)
Grande (15)
Grignon 17 (10)
Hatsutaka (10)
Hei Pi Qing Rang (12)
Hidatsa (12)
Hokkaido Black (13)
I-309 (10)
Jacques Brown (from recent swap, age unknown)
Jaune de Desme (15)
Jewel (14)
Ji Lin 15 (13)
Karikachi 3 (10)
Kharkovscaya Zernokormovaya (05)(drowned out this year)
Kosodiguri Extra Early (12)
Krasnoarmejscaja (12)
Lammer's White (from SSE, original packet, 06 seed)
Mandarin A (12)
Manitoba Brown (10)
Musan-1 (12)
Natsu Kurakake (12)
Ogemaw (13)
Ohozyu (12)
Oosodefuri (07)(drowned out this year)
Pando (12)
Peking Black (from recent swap, age unknown)
PI 89056-3 (15)
PI 194626 (06)(drowned out this year)
PI 194635 (14)
PI 291281 (15)
PI 291319 B (10)
PI 427088 I (12)
PI 437524 (06)
PI 522192 A (10)
PI 603698 E (13)
Rouest 13 A1 2 (12)
Rouest 117 (14)
Sac (07)(drowned out this year)
Sakamotowase (12)
Sapporo Midori (15)
Selection No. 503 (12)
Selection No. 505 (06)(drowned out this year)
Seneca (12)
Sioux (10)
Soja Brun Hatif U486 (15)
Sumo (recent swap, age unknown)
St. Ita (13)
SY 9514014 (15)
T239 (12)
T261 (08)
Ta Li Tsao Shen Wu Tou (12)
Tai Xing Hei Dou (10)
Tengamine (15)
Tokio Vert (15)
Ugra Saja (15)
VIR 1501-40 (12)
Wielnska Brunatna (15)
Yi Tong Lu Da Dou (07)
Zelena Echo 3 (10)
Zolta z Zolna (10)

Most of these are pictured & described on the Liberty Seeds site (see link in my previous post). I can further classify these by best usage, DTM, yield, and nutrient content upon request. Seed beyond 5 years of age may require old seed protocols. Most of my old seed was planted this year, with varying degrees of success; but those on the lower side of the garden (which flooded) rotted in the ground, along with all of the beans & peas also planted there.

The majority of my soybeans were acquired in 2006 from the estate of the late Robert Lobitz in Minnesota; there are 28 of the original samples remaining (mostly yellow-seeded cultivars intended for short seasons) that I did not list, because I doubt that much - if any - is still viable. My attempt to resuscitate two of those this year failed. If anyone wishes to try their hand at reviving them, I would be happy to ship the whole lot.

[steev]

toomanyirons (in the fire, I assume): that is one impressive seed-list!

About those Lutz beets: are they top-shaped, not round, and are the stems green, not red? If so, they're the real deal and I want some.

[roper2010]

Zach, I have some Mortgage Lifter Estler's Strain that I received in a group swap last year. If you want some seed let me know.



Linda

[kazedwards]

Thanks for the offer. PM on the way.

[flowerweaver]

Welcome to the forum @aerial!

[squishysquashy]

I don't have a very large garden or a whole lot of experience, so I don't have much to offer for trade. I am willing to pay for seed if I can't make a trade.

looking for:
short season fast maturing Runner beans, from the south if possible
Common beans (vulgaris) adapted to produce in the Deep South, snap or dry beans
Blue Jade sweet corn
Double Red sweet corn

I can offer very small amounts of:
Cowpea-Ozark Razorback saved from this year's quite abundant harvest, Southern Exposure stock, 50 seeds
Cowpea-Mayo Colima climbing cowpea in three colors saved out of this year's harvest, Baker Creek stock, 50 seeds
Snap pea-1 pkt Carouby de Maussane
Snap bean-1 pkt Dragon's Tongue Bush bean
1 pkt Kerala Red amaranth
Texas Wild Cherry Tomato, original seed from Native Seeds/SEARCH, and saved seed from the tastier plant in my garden that took up over 36 square feet and made a million tomatoes and volunteer babies all over the garden. Good flavor, splits easily.

Joseph, I'd like some things off of your list. I'll PM you. Could you tell me more about your Bok Choi grex? I just found out recently that Bok Choi is delicious. Guess I'm late to the game on that one.

[gilbert]

Here are the seeds I have to trade, and what I am looking for. Should I keep them here, or start a new thread?

What I have falls into three categories;

Tomato seed I have grown myself; Permaculture/ insect support plant packets that I have recently bought and want to split; and 3 year old commercial seed that I don't really want, but that somebody else might.

Tomato seed: Keep in mind that I have not isolated anything. You might get some crosses, even in the non landrace varieties. Numbers of seeds sent will depend on the deal we do.

Large Landrace, 2014. A huge jumble of everything I planted that did reasonably well here on a north facing slope in a new sheet mulch garden with erratic watering (mulch was just dumped on cardboard over the existing pasture). Size will vary from golf ball to beefsteak. All the tomato colors except for white, blue, and green. I planted 50 varieties, but a lot fewer then that made it into the mix, maybe twenty or so.

Cherry tomato landrace, 2014. Conditions were the same as above.

Orange landrace, 2015. All my best yellow and orange varieties from 2015 in a tilled garden on flat land, with more consistent water. For some reason, many of my best plants were orange. I think at least one of the cultivars was moonglow. Relatively little diversity, probably three or four varieties. (They were hard to tell apart.)

Cosmonaut Volkov. Good production, tasty, mid sized read globes. One of my best producers.

Siberian. Pink mid sized globes, very heavy production.

Taxi. Mid sized yellow tomato, mild tasting, very productive.

Black Cherry. Really too large to be a cherry, beautiful dusky fruit, wonderful taste, good production. If picked at the right stage in hot weather had almost a tropic fruit taste. Probably my favorite tomato, with close runners up being Siberian, Ananas Noire, and Taxi.

Green Zebra. Moderate production, cool looking, very tasty. One of the favorites at my tomato stand.

Permaculture/ habitat/ unusual/ perennial vegetable seeds.

Since we will be splitting packets, you will get a plastic zip lock with a card containing all relevant information. I want to split them and trade to minimize my costs as I investigate just about every perennial vegetable that is supose to grow here.

Currently:

From Seed aholic in Ireland:

Strawberry spinach/ beetberry. I will send several hundred seeds

Echinacea angustifolia Purple Coneflower. I will send 10 seeds

Calendula officinalis: I will send around 50 seeds

Purple Goose Foot, Mexican Tree Spinach, Chenopodium giganteum

New Zealand Spinach, I will send 20 seeds

Broadleaf sorrel, Rumex acetosa I will send several hundred seeds

Wild arugula, sylvetta, Diplotaxis tenuifolia: I will send around a hundred seeds

Achillea millefolium Yarrow, I will send around a hundred seeds

Cuminum cyminum, Cumin. I will send 30 seeds.

Polygonum Bistorta, I will send 10 seeds

Roman Chamomile, I will end a few hundred seeds

Lavender "Vera" I will send 40 seeds

Campanula carpatica F1 mixed, I will send around a hundred mixed.

I also have the following, from many different companies and in different amounts:

Stinging nettle, Mache, minutina, vegetable mallow, lambs quarters, yellow wonder alpine strawberry, Alexandria Alpine strawberry, chives, cleome, Bellis perrenis (English daisy) Culinary flax, Lovage, and bird's foot trefoil. (I can send up to 10,000 seeds of the trefoil. Pre inoculated by bountiful gardens, for 2015.)

Standard seed packets that I don't want. Remember, the following were donated to me. I did grow out many packets from the same bunch with good results, but I can't know how they were stored for certain.

One Pkt Burgandy okra, organic, High Mowing Seeds, packed for 2013
1 pkt Ananas D' Amerique A Chair Verte melon, from Baker Creek.
1 pkt Love in a Mist, from Baker creek

1 pkt Henderson bush baby lima 15 grams organic from Botanical interests packed for 2014

4 pkts Windsor Fava 2 oz pkts untreated from Lake valley seeds.

Catnip seeds from Lake valley organics, Ferry morse, and livingston seed company, about 7 pkts.

As far as what I want; just about anything . . . provided I don't already have it!

Interesting tomatoes, especially white or blue or wild types. Green grape tomato seeds. Sweet peppers, particularly types that do well in dry climates. Cucumbers, the stranger the better. Particularly heat tolerant, or unusual colors. Heat tolerant broccoli varieties. PERENNIAL VEGETABLES or permaculture support plants. Spineless prickly pear. Dryland crops, odd grains or legumes.

PM me to set up a trade.

[oldmobie]

Here's my list. Long and obnoxious as requested.

Seeds I'm offering for trade:

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Beans:

• Blue Lake (Some marked pole, some marked bush. I think the pole may be mis-marked.)
• Dry (Mostly Joseph's, with Cherokee Trail of Tears, Anasazi and Rattlesnake added.)
• King of the Garden Pole Lima (Bulk. 2013? Have been refrigerated.)
• KY Pole Beans
• Tepary
• I may have assorted pole green bean seeds later. I haven't picked yet, hopefully they're still viable.

Bee Balm:

• Purple

Carrot:

• Chantenay 2014
• Little Finger

Cock's Comb:

• Red
• Yellow

Columbine:

• Unknown variety

Coneflower:

• Cheyenne Spirit

Corn:

• Mixed Sweet Corn 2014
• Astronomy Domine
• LISP Ashworth
• Pennsylvania Butter Flavor (Poor germination. Hoping to improve by selection.)
• Tiny blue popcorn
• I also have white kernels from blue ears. Saved seperately to see if it's a fluke or a cross to the Pennsylvania Butter Flavor.
• Strawberry popcorn (Needs selection)
• I have small amounts of assorted decorative corn. Details / pictures on request.

Cucumbers:

• Chicago pickling 2013
• Marketmore 2014
• Japanese foot long (from a gardenweb trade)
• Joseph's landrace
• My own (proto)landrace (Mostly Joseph's landrace, but grown with every variety I could lay my hands on. Tried to save seeds from every plant.)

Garlic:

• Red Chesnok (bulbils)

Gourds:

• Birdhouse Gourd

Hummingbird Vine:

• Unknown variety

Lettuce:

• Red Salad Bowl
• Lettuce Blend

Malabar Spinach

• Green stemmed

Marigold:

• Mixed

Orach:

• Unknown variety. Red stemmed

Peas:

• Joseph's landrace
• A selection from Joseph's landrace, from the last plant(s) to die. (I hope this process will lead to warm weather peas, though I've only selected once, so probably haven't made much difference yet.)

Peppers:

• Mixed sweet (non-bell) 2015
• Jimmy Nardello
• Mixed Bells 2015 (Seeds came from orange and yellow, though I also planted red. I never got fruit from it, but they could've crossed. It's a grab-bag.)
• Gypsy 2014
• Sweet Banana 2015
• Unknown variety (Looks like jalapeño, tastes like bell, but without the bitterness.)

Poppy:

• Feathered poppy

Red Hot Poker:

• Unknown variety

Spinach:

• Bloomsdale Long Standing
• Joseph's landrace 2013

Summer Squash:

• Early Prolific Straightneck
• Straightneck Early Yellow

Tobacco:

• Bolivian Crillo Black

Tomatoes:

• Red slicer (small amount)
• Yellow slicer (small amount)

Watermelon:

• My (proto) landrace 2015 (small amount)
• Yellow from 2009 (90% germination in 2014! Small amount)
• Orange Tendersweet (commercial, 2015. Small amount)

Winter Squash:

• Baby Turk's Turban 2014
• Waltham Butternut 2013
• Mixed moschata squash. From 2 medium sized squash from Joseph's landrace and 1 itty-bitty butternut.

Seeds I'd like to get in trade:

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• Larger yellow slicer tomato
• Properly sized paste tomatoe(s) (What I've been growing is so small it's not really even fit to peel.)
• More heatless peppers for diversity
• Anything that seems interesting and cool that might grow here.

[justness]

thanks to a lovely shipment, I will soon send you a surprise,
thanks again.
wiz

[khoomeizhi]

was just about to!

i have:

scorzonera mass cross (hundreds of seeds available)
turkish rocket / Bunias orientalis (100ish)
purple tomatillo (dozens)
Physalis peruviana (not sure)
Physalis pruinosa? common annual ground cherry that i've seen given at least three different species names (1000's)
Physalis heterophylla? not positive on ID - local perennial woodland ground cherry (dozens)
Physalis longifolia - local weedy field species (a few)
milkweed - Asclepias syriaca (hundreds)
cowpea - grey-speckled palapye (hundreds)
cowpea - monkey tail (hundreds)
tarahumara popping sorghum (hundreds)
egyptian spinach (hundreds)
vermont cranberry dry bean (thousands)
wild bean Phaseolus polystachios (hundreds)

interested in:
breadseed
root crops, including less-common ones and perennial ones
other perennial physalis
tomatillos
perennial vegetables and herbs
winter radishes
woody stuff: berries/other fruit/nut/other edible parts-bearing shrubs/trees
edible shade-tolerant woodland stuff
in whatever quantities are available

[oldmobie]

Jan 7, 2016 11:59:16 GMT -5 toomanyirons said:

2.)  When sending a trade offer or request please include seed quantities for the varieties you are seeking to acquire from me as well as the seed quantities of the varieties that you are offering me in trade

I have a hard time saying "A trade is X number of seeds." Basically, I think of what I'd get if I bought a pack of seeds at the store. I'm usually disaspointed with that quantity, so try to send something that's obviously more. With corn or peas or beans I try to send a tablespoon. With cucumbers, etc I may send a teaspoon. I recently traded someone some pepper seeds and was reduced to sending them a "pinch". I guess it was ~¼ teaspoon. Usually if I can't spare at least 20-50 seeds (depending on type) per trade, I just don't list the item.

I feel like my "policy" isn't very specific. Is it useful information, or would people rather see "50 corn seeds", "100 cucumber seeds", "35 pepper seeds", stuff like that?

[Joseph Lofthouse]

This year I finally caved in and included # of seeds in my swap-list descriptions.

I ended up putting way more seeds in the cucurbit packets than I think people would want to receive, but I figure that since they are landrace seeds and there is tremendous diversity, I aught to at least attempt to give them a good sample. Besides, the seed stays good for years.

But with highly inbred varieties like some of the tomatoes, I don't see the point, so I only put in 20 seeds. But the landrace tomato packets contain around 100 seeds. That still only offers a sample of the diversity within my tomatoes.

There are around 300 varieties of beans in my bean landrace, but I'm only putting 100 seeds into a packet. That gets someone the most common and productive types, but with one packet they miss out on many of the more rare types. With highly inbred named varieties, I'm only going to plant about 15 seeds anyway, so any more than that just get archived.

A small pinch of tobacco seeds might contain 200 seeds. That's more than enough, even though it looks about like a bit of dust in the packet.

And if a crop is experimental, or new, and I only harvested a few seeds, then I only offer a few seeds. I figure that it is better to share meagerly now than to wait for years until I have enough seed to share abundantly.

[Joseph Lofthouse]

Dec 29, 2015 19:51:57 GMT -5 squishysquashy said:

Joseph, [...] Could you tell me more about your Bok Choi grex? I just found out recently that Bok Choi is delicious. Guess I'm late to the game on that one.

Last spring, I planted every variety of open pollinated bok/pac choi that I could get my hands on. Most of what survived for me were leafy types. The huge stem types didn't do well. They were planted in very early spring. There were a few turnip weeds flowering at the same time about 30 feet away, so a little bit of crossing is expected. I planted a fall crop which did well and produced lots of nice plants.