I have 50 packs of seeds going to Randleman Middle School Science Department, Randleman, NC

Plus 50 packs of seeds to the school I work: Southern Guilford High.

anyone else going to plant or distribute seeds?

Hi Mark... Be glad to...

I will give 20 packs to Nancys Christian Learning Center to send home with the kids to plant.

I will also plant out 35 packs myself that day - As I have them in a baggy and I have been meaning to get them in the dirt. I can't get picks of the ones I send to nclc but I will def. take photos of mine after planting...

OK now you can add 55 packs to your list.

Tammy:-)

I am in, the boys and I will not only be planting seeds that day, but plants as well, some from winter sowing and others that were bought for some 'now' color.

And I am donating supplies to Devin's, my 9 year old, class for them to plant and grow both marigolds and Melting Sugar Snow peas. They will start as a classroom project then take them home.

I'll try to post some pictures of everything, Matt, but please forgive me if I don't get to. Good intention doesn't always work out with my back problems lately. Just know that we're doing our share to celebrate our Earth and to continue to nurture it :)

Kathy

I can't donate but I can plant, MATT send me an email reminder. YOU don't know it yet but I am scatterbrained and I have to have reminders!
I will try to take pics of the plantings...might better remind me to do that too....
YA'LL STOP LAUGHING AT ME I am trying to help! (blushing, BUNNY STOP IT, you too KATHY, I see you snickering over there!) MARK, make them stop calling me OLD! You tell them I am NOT old, I am overbooked!

:) Fran

I'm in charge of snack at my son's preschool that day - making a Dirt Cake. I can pick up packs of seeds to pass out to his classmates. I believe there's 16 children in the class, plus the two teachers, so you can put me down for 18 packs.

Bonnie

Grand idea Mark! Put me down for 50+. If it's a nice day out, I'll get the kids to help me start the veggie garden that day, also already planning to share with a 'brown-thumbed' neighbor so I'll do it that day as well! Probably let my daughter start her Memorial garden and she's made some new friends in the neighborhood here.. I'm sure they'd enjoy doing a small flowerbed too!

Hugs,
Wendy

Ooh! I don't know how many I can do, but I will definitely be putting some out. Get the kiddos up off the couch, and out in to the yard. LOL

My son has informed me, through his Myspace page, Craig's List, Gardenweb and freecycle, we have confirmation of at least 1800 packs of seeds being distributed and to be planted on Wed, April 22.

Help spread the word. It is a very short time frame, but he is confident that we can make 10,000 packs of seeds being planted in one day.

Mark

Mark & Matt~ I know it's not much, but put us down for 20. I have more than that (thanks, KAT!), but I don't want to say I'll plant more, and then get lazy and not do it. LOL
But we'll definitely be doing 20.

Melissa & Zoo

I am already planning on 25 packs and then another 25-40 packs for Thursday (outside) so I can try to get them in on Wed. Put me down for 25 and if I can get to the others I will let you know. I just won't have decen't weather for outside until Thur-Fri-Sat, which is when I will be planting out my lettuce, cabbage, peas, etc........

Awesome Idea. We need to find a date in May and do this again, . That way many more can participate and it gives us time to get seeds to give away and better weather.

I love you idea and hope you make 10, 000.

Good Luck
Nichol

We've already started soaking two types of cannas, two types of sweet peas, a new type (for us) of Morning glories, my Pride of Barbados seeds and I've got my Brazilian Fireworks ready to plant along with several varieties of marigold, forget-me-nots, and we have hostas, dahlias,lily of the valley- white and pink, bleeding heart, and cannas that are bare root (from orders, trades and store bought) and some annuals the boys bought for "now" color, all waiting to be planted on the day :) Plus we have several seeds that will be direct sown.

I also have a HUGE package of French Dwarf Marigolds and Melting Sugar Snow peas along with plastic cups and Jiffy mix ready to go to Devin's class, which has about 20 kids plus his wonderful teacher. And the same for Vince's science class which is about 18 kids and the teacher. So, 42 packets of seeds for Devin's class plus 38 packets for Vince's class in addition to the things we're planting here and We have more seeds to be sown with the neighborhood kids. We're having an Earth Day party here :) I need to have Cliff pick me up another bag of paper cups and another bag of Jiffy mix for the seed sowing.

Devin and Vince are clearing the mulch off of their beds and have decided to amend their soil this afternoon to be ready for all the planting tomorrow. They started clearing the mulch last night and putting it into trash bags to hold it until they get their soil amended and the new seedlings and plants put in, then it will be easy for them to re-mulch everything :) They have been busy little garden bees!

How does that look for your project, Matt? I'll try to get some pictures and post them :)

Kathy

I am definitely going to be outside planting some seeds tomorrow...and I am going to add a link to Matt's posting to my Gardening Blog to get the word out.

Hello
Matt and Mark I'm sorry I can't be much help. Here in westeren Pa It's not seed planting season yet :(.

I do however have 100 sweetpea seeds (harty) that I can put in the ground I'm not sure how you would convert seeds to packs. anything else i try will not make it. they are calling for snowy rain tonight and we do have am frosts untill may.

Joseph

My son Matt was just on the local news about this project!

He estimates that about 3500 packs are committed for tomorrow from all sources. Facebook, Myspace, freecycle, Gardenweb, North Carolina Science Teachers Association and the Environmental Educator's List Serve.

Matt asked for help. Please ask other Round Robin threads to check it out here! GW can make a big difference tomorrow.

I love the idea for next month again. I mentioned it to him and he is intrigued.

Mark

I actually did more than planned. I put out 42 packs. (In milk jugs -hope thats ok. ) I like starting them there and then transferring them once they start to grow (that way i know where the seed is. ) This is not counting the other packs I already did for wsing. Hope that helps.

Tammy

Mark;
Sorry, I can't help as it is too early to plant here and the schools are on vacation so double trouble.
If you do it next month I will find a class to adopt and get seeds to them. More notice would have helped.
diene

Mark,
I had already planned to start planting this weekend as soon as the ground dried out from the TON of rain we've had the last 5 days. I'm gonna up my planting time and start tomorrow for Matt's and your project. Count me in for AT LEAST 25 packs of seeds tomorrow in flats and the ground. Also, I'll be putting in rose bushes I picked up on clearance at Wally world for $2.00 and their bulbs are 50% off, so that's $2.50/pack of 1 to 3 tubers usually. I also picked up 3 packs of 20 glads that'll I plant tomorrow. So that's a minimum of 70 bulbs/tubers to go with the seeds. I hope this helps. Be sure and post if you do this again later when the weather is better for seed sowing direct. Thanks.

Joan

Mark and Matt,

Outstanding project.....I am planting seeds today...I will post my total later on today/tonight!!

Annie

I just clocked in at 25 packs! Yippee!
And the day is still young (and so are the workers!...I mean, kids! LOL!)

Melissa

Mark,
I'm in the same cold zone as Joseph, western PA..however, I am planting in jugs and I've planted some poppies which like to be planted in cold. I'd say I've planted about 15 packs.

Linda

32 packs so far... takin' a break to make dinner then I'll be back at it! :)

I did my planting this morning before I saw the post (great minds and all...) but was able to get 23 daylilly fans and an aster in the ground before it rained. I dont know how that would count as far as 'seed packs' goes, but count me in for more planting tomorrow when the rain stops!

matt and mark I planted my 100 seeds and one pack of bulbs.
mark I was wondering can you try to send me an email through gw to see if it's working yet? I check everything when you told me and i thought i had it right!

thanks
Joseph

So far, along with the the packets the boys took to school, we have planted hostas (about 10 of them) 2 bleeding hearts, 10 dahlia tubers, another 10 Allstar Strawberries, another type of canna tuber, marigolds (12 plants), Salvia (12 plants), Snapdragons (36 plants), Dusty Millers (36 plants), Alyssum (36 plants), wave petunias (24 plants),Lily of the Valley- 20 pink, 20 white.

We have also planted marigold seeds - 4 packets (BIG packets), Cannas- two types 4 packages, Brazilian Fireworks 1 packet, Pride of Barbados 1 packet, 10 packets of Morning glories, 10 packets of perennial sweet peas, 5 packets of Forget me Nots, 10 packets of 4 o'clocks, 10 packets of Salvia, 5 packets of Lantana, 5 packets of butterfly weed, 5 packets of Ice plant. That's the count so far today. We're not finished yet, just came in to eat dinner and rest a bit. We'll work inside sowing more flats here in a little while :)

Not sure how you're converting plants to packets of seeds, or how many seeds you're considering a packet. I know that a one of those marigold packets filled 2 72 count flats. But, however you're tallying it up, we've done a LOT of planting today!

So, any ideas on how many carried through today? Or about how close you got to your goal?

Kathy~ heading back to the seed sowing :)

Got in packets of zinnias, cosmos,dill, and radishes so todays count was 4 packs. Those on top of what was planted last week,and what I will be planting next week...along with all the seedlings yet to go in and I am almost out of room lol!

I did 50 packs, I did take pics and will email them to you when I upload them to the computer. I am tired or I would do it now but wanted to let you know I DID plant on the 22nd and what my count was.

:) Fran

Today I planted 38 seed packs. I had hoped to plant more but ran out of time. I did manage to also get 30 plants in the ground....more tomorrow and the next day and the next day etc...LOL. Just went outside...the bunnies are hopping all over the place and the snails are surrounding my plants. Lots of good munchies for them.......

Annie

Annie, snails don't like used coffee grounds from what I've been told. just sprinkle it around your plants. Bloodmeal will usually keep rabbits away from what you don't want them nibbling. When I was a younger and we live in the country, we use to sprinkle bloodmeal and hair cut clippings around where we didn't want them. But we always planted a patch for them of greens and bell peppers. That kept them fed, and out of our veggies and flowers/plants.

Thought I'd share in case they became a problem.

Gonna post my pictures from yesterday in a bit. Enjoying that first cup of coffee and gonna go check my veggie bed before getting the next bratling up for school :)

Kathy

As promised, some pictures from our Earth Day activities. Sorry there are so few, it's hard for me to get about in the front yard and I wasn't able to go to the boys' schools and take pictures there.

Kathy

Here is a link that might be useful: Walker clan Earth Day 2009

So Mark, what was the final tally?

BTW, the Dirt Cake was a big hit at my son's preschool.

Bonnie

Hi mark, this site kept freezing on me last night, but I DID do 18 packs of seeds on Earth day.

I hope your sons project went well.

Kym

On Monday, I'm sending over 300 silver maple seedlings to another gw member so he can reforest his land. You can add those to the total Mark.
-Dan