HI Lieblingxdaskraut, Welcome to GW and the seed exchange. I am quite confused by your last post. I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but from what you posted I understand what you are say is the following. You have not listed any seeds for trade either on your member trade page or on this thread because you don't have any seeds to trade yet, but you will mid to late summer after you collect seeds from the plants that you will have growing in your beds. You don't want to list the seeds that you will have as seeds to trade until you have them collected, which makes perfect sense to me and anyone else. Yet at the same time, it appears you want to set up trades for seeds now and have members send you their seeds now and you will send seeds to these members some time in July or after that and the members have to ask you what you will or may have in the future but not now. And you don't "understand why this must seem so difficult."...... I don't understand it either. Simply put, this forums is called "The seed exchange forum" for a reason. It is a forum where members make arrangements with other members to exchange/trade seeds with each other. Members list seeds on their member trade page that they already have collected, purchased or have extras from other trades, as well as seeds that they want to trade for. The members then either post that they have seeds for trades and/or what seeds they are looking for and those that are interested check the threads and post to the offers that interest them. There are also posts from members that offer their extra seeds for "free", just send a bubble envelope and postage for the seeds. What isn't done, nor would be considered a trade is what appears to be the offer that you are offering. Attempting to set up a trade for seeds expecting seeds to be sent to you now and you would fill your end of the trade sometime in the future, long after the seeds could be started for this year. Now if I am confused/mistaken with what I have interpreted your offer and what you are saying to be, please correct me. Otherwise, what you are really doing is not something that is set up on GW and it would be best for you to just look for offers that say BEAP, SASBE, Free seeds for postage and check out the members trade list to see if they have something you are looking for. As has already been stated in another post to you, asking for free seeds is not allowed on GW and essentially you are asking members to send you seeds in hope that you will honor your end of the trade and send seeds that you say you will have some time over the summer that can't be started and used until next year. Fran

Wondered where this post went! lol ok here's what I can make out on the side of the box(I need new glasses,ugh!). Total Nitrogen 24% 3.1 Ammoniacol Nitrogen 1.2% nitrate nitrogen 16.1% Urea Nitrogen 0.9% Other Water Soluble Nitrogen 2.7% Water Insoluble Nitrogen available phosphate 8.0% soluble Potash 16.0% Total Copper 0.7% Total Iron 0.15% Molybdenum 0.0005% Total Zinc 0.06%

Are you sure you used the correct application rate? Plants either need or don't need to be fertilized according to what the existing nutrient situation is. Always not fertilizing is no more automatically valid than always fertilizing (fertilizing without knowing which, if any nutrients may be deficient). Plants do not adapt. They come with predetermined parameters. If you provide the exposure, moisture, nutrients and other site conditions that fall within their tolerance ranges then they will grow.

I don't do store bought petunias anymore. I started with some re-seeding types from Select Seeds several years ago and I have petunias galore! They are in shades of deep purple, lavender, pinks to whites. Once in a while I get a broken color, but they seem to be gone this year. They get very long and I should start pinching, but probably won't get around to it. If I want to start some in other places, I just dig up a clump of seedlings and move them. This kind works better for me than the fancy hybrids the stores love to sell! This miserable heat we are having in southwest Missouri is hurting everything! My red daylilies in particular start out such a gorgeous color but are very unattractive by afternoon. The weatherman said we are having July heat now! Wonder what July will be like? We who live in different zones have to realize that our gardens are a whole different species from each other. We have to adapt our methods to our regions to get the best results and sometimes those results are less than what we would like. Such is life. glenda