Dawson, I would appreciate some of your giant maxima squash, green bush beans, rhubarb seed, saskatoon berry, cherry tomatoes, French sorrel. Let me know which flowers you want from my list.
Ok great I can get those ready to go this week. I would like to try some of your calendula,Asters and hollyhock if you had enough to spare. so heres the full list
Moschata, sweet corn, celery, cucumber calendula, asters and hollyhock
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if you were interested in any of the seeds I have in my list up there I could send you some to help with your restart
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Hi! Am I too late to join the train?
Iāve got so many seeds to share - both a terrible seed buying addiction and a growing selection of saved seeds
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Itās become a seed swap. Itās probably not too late. Just share a list of what you have and then a list of what you want and see if there are any takers!
I have a lot of seeds to share!
Mine are mostly purchased heirloom varieties for the moment - bad seed shopping problem, which Iāve only recently started addressing with saving seeds and developing my own landraces. In coming years a lot of the seed packets will become my own landrace varieties. Lots of things to share in general, but in particular, I currently have :
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Lots of tomatoes - variety of sizes, shapes and colours - lots of black/purple, and some supersweet cherry types. Interesting heirlooms , some grexes/swarms from Wild Mountain seed, and limited quantities saved seeds from two beautiful and delicious purple ruffled tomato plants that tanked last yearās disastrous late blight that destroyed every other tomato in the community garden. I think the package the blight resistant tomatoes were planted from was literally called āPurple Ruffleā but the plants were in close proximity to a dozen or more other varieties so there might be some interesting mixes there.
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Sweet peppers, variety of heirlooms (shepherdās Ramhorn, Lesya, Etiuda, Doe Hill etc) and saved seeds from the tastiest and earliest red italian frying types of last yearās harvest. Warning I accidentally planted some hot peppers into the area with sweet peppers so some surprises are possible with the saved seeds.
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All the kales. Seed packets, but I could make someone a real interesting grex.
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Black Nightfall pole beans (saved from 2023), various heirloom seed packet pole bean varieties
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Variety of summer squashes (Curcubita pepo). All heirloom seed packets, but can make an interesting grex.
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Beets, variety of heirloom seed packet types
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Basil, variety of heirloom seed packet types. Lotsa thai basil and spicy basil varieties in particular
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Cucumbers, variety of heirloom seed packet types
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Winter squashes - moschata and maxima varieties, heirloom seed packets
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Leaf fennel, seeds saved from green (āGrosfruchticherā) plants but likely crosspollinated with bronze fennel
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Calendula, mostly from orange flowers, some bicolour/flashback etc. The feral mix in my yard also features some yellows (originally resina?)
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Sulphur cosmos saved seed, mix of tall orange (purchased as āKennikuraā) and dwarf orange
13 French marigolds, orange/red bicolours. Saved seeds, originally selected from plants grown from a couple of different heirlooms and mixed packets.
14 Signet marigolds, saved seeds from āTangerine gemā
A bunch of other stuff tooā¦
Looking for:
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More tasty blight resistant tomatoes to add to my swarm. No off-tasting wild relatives and early hybrids please.
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Muskmelons/canteloupes
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Early producing okra! Iām in southwestern ontario so have a relatively long season for Canada but still challenging for okra to set mature seed.
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Things that will overwinter with little or minimal/basic protection in zone 5b/6a
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Lettuces
6.Tepary beans, garbanzos, soup peasā¦
Nice!
I would be interested in your
- Black/purple tomatoes
- Sweet cherry tomatoes
- Kale seeds grex
- Black pole beans
- Pepo squashes
- Signet marigolds
- Beets grex
- Moschata squashes
- Maxima squashes
Thank you!
I just got them today! They look great and Iām excited to grow them!
Awesome,I just got yours to Thank you!
I got your seeds Dawson. Thanks! I donāt think I sent a message yesterday but if I did twice wonāt hurt.
I get confused with all the different ways to connect: the regular forum, āpersonal messagesā, and āchatā. For the purpose of sharing addresses etc, Iām connected with you by chat and with Nicole by personal messages. Starting to get it sorted outā¦
I got your Moschata seeds Marvin! Thank you. Iām excited as I now have 7 or 8 sources and most of them are quite diverse already.
I hope they germinate since they arenāt very well filled out. My grex is based on several Going to Seed and Lofthouse grexes, plus a lot of other genetics that I collected. Should add some diversity.
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Great! im glad they made it I just got yours and @LeeAngold seeds to, Thanks you guys
Got your seed packets yesterday 
Hello fellow Canadian residents!
Weāre having a bit of a discussion here (at the end of the discussion linked) about creating a more organized Canadian seed share, with the support of GTS.
We could pool seeds together a bit like GTS does but for Canada.
This would probably be for maybe 5ish pilot cropsā¦ Are there any crops that you would be particularly interested in to start with?
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Iām looking forward to see what comes together! I donāt have any crop ideas in particular. And weāre probably moving in the spring so Iāll be very preoccupied
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I would participate, not sure about which crops though, Iām open to any edibles and lean towards those with higher crossing rates and less labor intensive (e.g. not tomatoes although Iām trying Josephs Q series tomatoes out, for now ill stick to my cherry market tomatoes). Iām excited to see what if anything comes of this. Havenāt participated in mail-in seed exchanges yet.
Thanks to all those participating in making this come together
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Thanks for the responses!
I think anything thatās a cross between 3 factors:
- āeasyā
- popular
- of interest to future stewards
would be a good candidate. For example, winter squash species.
Then weād have to assess if weāre ready to tackle ānot as easyā species such as tomatoes. If there are already multiple people with projects for a given species then pooling might make sense.
Things I can provide lots of:
- Maxima squashā¦so many maxima squash. One year crossing in my garden, from a WIDE range of seeds including GTS and other landrace stock.
- Pole Beans
- Sweet peppers - 1-2 years crossing in my garden, isolated from anything hot, wide range of parent varieties
- Edible/Medicinal flowers: Calendula, Marigolds, orange cosmos, Echinacea, Butterfly and Swamp Milkweed, Yarrow - most have been breeding themselves wild in my garden for 5+ years
- Brassicas: Wild Arugula, Collards
- Tomatillos (mostly yellow)
Things I want (want to grow or usually grow but didnt have great success with this year to share seed):
- Corn (sweet, preferably)
- Peas
- Fava Beans
- Hot peppers
- Spinach
- Melons (got trampled and choked out by the squash above :P)
- Cucumbers (eaten to the ground ?!?)
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