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The color of the month swap for October is ORANGE. We will need at least 5 people to sign up for this swap to go forward. POST HERE if you would like to participate. After signing up here on this thread, please send me an e-mail with your full name & address and your GardenWeb name. I will send out my address after there are at least 5 responders. DEADLINE FOR SIGNING UP: October 18th DEADLINE FOR SENDING SEEDS: October 25th You may include seeds that produce ORANGE flowers, foliage, fruits, or vegetables, or just have the word "ORANGE" in their names! You may send flower seeds, vegetable/herb seeds, or a mix.
Absolutely NO Invasive Plants or Noxious Weeds!!!!
Please include on the packet label: the seed's name (be as specific as possible), whether your seeds are from a commercial source or hand-collected, and the year stamped on the package if it's commercial seed, or the year harvested if it was hand collected. The limit for all of the color swaps is 10 packs, but please feel free to send in extras. These will be counted as bonus packs and I will try to send bonuses back to those who send them in. You can send in as little as 1 pack of seeds, there is no minimum to send in. Please send in the number of seeds that you would be comfortable receiving yourself depending on the variety. There should be a minimum of 10 seeds per pack. Please send only 1 pack per variety. Again, you may send more than one pack of a certain variety, but please know that they will be counted as 'extras'. So each variety will be counted as one trade. Orange is one of my favorite colors, and my garden has lots of orange. Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with! Bonnie |
Follow-Up Postings:
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- Posted by poisondartfrog 7 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 6, 10 at 5:37
| Yipee!! Please sign me up. Alana |
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- Posted by silver_cat 8 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 6, 10 at 10:52
| me, me too-- My favorite color, but it's first year and I don't have much to send. These swaps are addictive :) |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Wed, Oct 6, 10 at 13:17
| Welcome to the swap! So far we have:
So are you guys interested in flowers, edibles, or both? There's lots of orange edibles - pumpkins, carrots, winter squash, peppers, tomatoes, and melons. When you send me your email address, just let me know what you are interested in, or just include a note with your seeds indicating your preference. Bonnie |
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| Add me to the list. Don |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Wed, Oct 6, 10 at 21:54
| Glad to have you with us, Don! That makes five now: Poisondartfrog/Alana Here is an orange that I collected seeds from yesterday. |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Sat, Oct 9, 10 at 12:03
| Bumping this up, since there is still time to sign up : ) Bonnie |
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- Posted by mao_tse_mom z5 Oh (maozamom@hotmail.com) on Sun, Oct 10, 10 at 13:15
| I'm a big fan of orange too, and would love to participate if this is still open. mao |
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| Count me in. |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Sun, Oct 10, 10 at 18:36
| Glad to see some more people sign up! Here's the list of participants:
There's one more week left to sign up. If you don't have my mailing address, please send me an email, and I will get that to you. Also, I'll need to know if you just want flowers, or if you are interested in edibles, or both. Thanks, |
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- Posted by poisondartfrog 7 (My Page) on Tue, Oct 12, 10 at 15:51
| My orange seeds are ready Bonnie-I just need your address. Thanks, Alana |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Tue, Oct 12, 10 at 19:09
| Alana, I emailed it to you. Let me know if you don't receive it. |
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- Posted by poisondartfrog 7 (My Page) on Thu, Oct 14, 10 at 8:35
| I mailed mine today. Thanks! |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Thu, Oct 14, 10 at 14:29
| Great, Alana! I'll keep my eye out for it. Only a couple people have emailed me requesting my mailing address, so I'm assuming the rest of you guys already have it from a previous swap. If you need it, email me, or post here, so that I can get it to you. There's still 4 more days left to sign up. Here's a little something for those of you that are interested in edibles. Those were all picked last weekend. We had a little light frost last night, but still no hard freeze here yet. How about you guys? Bonnie |
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| Hi Bonnie, My seeds are ready to go~just need your address, please. Thanks. |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Fri, Oct 15, 10 at 16:32
| Jaynine, just sent you an email. Let me know if you don't receive it. Bonnie |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Sun, Oct 17, 10 at 16:09
| Hi Guys! Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Tomorrow is the last day to sign up for this swap, so now is the time for all lurkers to come out of hiding, and declare their love for orange. Remember, there is no minimum number of packets to send in, so even if you only have a few things, you can still join in. Bonnie |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Tue, Oct 19, 10 at 12:33
| *** Sign ups for this swap are over now *** Wish we had more participants to increase the variety that everyone will get back, but it should still be a good swap. Recieved Alana's package yesterday. So here is the final list of participants, with a * by the ones I have received: Seeds are due by the 25th, so hopefully everyone has already started packaging their seeds up by now. Bonnie |
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| Mine are on their way. |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Wed, Oct 20, 10 at 21:48
| Received two more packages today. Here is the updated list: * Poisondartfrog/Alana Baked one of our Early Sweet Sugar pumpkins yesterday, then made a huge batch of yummy muffins. One down, and about 29 more to go, LOL! I see pumpkin bread, pumpkin pies, and pumpkin waffles in our future : ) Bonnie |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Thu, Oct 21, 10 at 18:56
| No packages today. I'll send an email reminder to those of you I haven't heard from yet. Bonnie |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Mon, Oct 25, 10 at 12:49
| Crazy winds this morning, along with heavy rain, and now it is snowing. The forecasted low by Wednesday is mid-teens. Welcome to autumn in the Rockies!!! Received one more package today. Here is the updated list: * Poisondartfrog/Alana Two more pumpkins in the oven this morning, but doesn't look like I've put a dent in them yet. Feel free to post you favorite pumpkin recipes for me : ) Bonnie |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Thu, Oct 28, 10 at 19:45
| Received Mao's package today. I'm going to ask you guys to be a bit patient with me on the sorting though. Tomorrow, all three of my kids have school parties, and they go to school in three different towns. Sunday is Halloween, and we have a church function that day, which requires some baking to be done on Saturday. I promise to try to get it done on Monday, and get them back in the mail by mid-week. I appreciate your understanding, |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Wed, Nov 3, 10 at 15:45
| Good afternoon! All of the seeds have been sorted, and the packages are ready to go. Hoping to make it to the post office before they close this afternoon, but if I can't, they will go out first thing in the morning. Please post when you receive your package, so that I will know your seeds arrived. Thank you for joining the swap, and I hope everyone has enjoyed it! Bonnie |
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| I received my seeds today. Thanks for a great variety of seeds. Thanks too to a generous hostess. Don |
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- Posted by mao_tse_mom z5 Oh (maozamom@hotmail.com) on Fri, Nov 5, 10 at 20:19
| My seeds came today too. I'm so looking forward to seeing more orange in my garden next year. Thank you Bonnie for hosting this swap. mao |
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| My seeds came today~what a nice assortment. Great job, Bonnie. Thank you everyone! |
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- Posted by poisondartfrog 7 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 7, 10 at 8:00
| I got mine yesterday. Nice job Bonnie! Thanks everyone, Alana |
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- Posted by sandlapper_rose z7B-8A SC (My Page) on Sun, Nov 7, 10 at 17:16
| Okay... getting curious here. Early in the year when plans were being made, I signed up to be hostess for the December Swap. Is there going to be a November swap? If not --- and if no one minds, I might like to start my December Swap (Silver and Gold) a few weeks early before everyone gets too tied up with the Christmas rush. Can someone let me know? Thanks! Jeanne |
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Sun, Nov 7, 10 at 18:00
| I'm glad to hear that everyone's seeds arrived so quickly! Jeanne, I believe Penny (Cybermeows) was scheduled to host the rainbow colored swap for November, so you might want to email her first, before you start the Silver & Gold swap. Bonnie |
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- Posted by sandlapper_rose z7B-8A SC (My Page) on Mon, Nov 8, 10 at 10:53
| Thank, Bonnie. I sent an e-mail message to her. If I don't hear back from her saying that I should start mine early, I will just wait until Dec. 1 or later to post the Silver & Gold swap. Makes no difference. I was just trying to move ahead of the Christmas mail if there was no November Color Swap. LOL Jeanne |
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- Posted by sandlapper_rose z7B-8A SC (My Page) on Fri, Nov 19, 10 at 11:52
| Please so not sign up prior to December 1, but I wanted to start people thinking about this one. It's the last 2010 installment of the Colors of the Month Swaps. I have been looking forward to being hostess for this one for a long time! You do remember the carol about silver and gold, don't you? That's why I selected these colors for December. Ev'ryone wishes for silver and gold How do you measure its worth? Just by the pleasure it gives here on earth. Silver and gold, silver and gold DEADLINE FOR SIGNING UP: December 12th DEADLINE FOR SENDING SEEDS: December 20th I will get the seeds mailed back out to you by the end of the month. They may or may not make it to you by Dec. 31, but if not - they will definitely be there by early January. You just have to wonder how the mail service will become bogged down with the Christmas rush. You may include seeds that produce silver or gold flowers, foliage, fruits, or vegetables, or just have the word "Silver" or "Gold" in their names! You may send flower seeds, vegetable/herb seeds, or a mix. Absolutely NO Invasive Plants or Noxious Weeds!!!! Please send unused postage stamps in the amount that it costs you to mail to me so that I can use them to mail the seeds back to you and include a mailing label with your correct address. Also, please make sure you send a padded envelope that can withstand a second mailing or add a smaller one inside your large envelope. Sometimes they come in a bit tattered or it is hard to cover up the original address information so anything you can do to make that part easier for me, I will appreciate it. Please include on the packet label: the seed's name (be as specific as possible), whether your seeds are from a commercial source or hand-collected, and the year stamped on the package if it's commercial seed, or the year harvested if it was hand collected. The packet limit for each color is no more than 5 packets of a single variety of silver seeds and no more than 5 packets of a single variety of gold seeds. Feel free to send in extras. These will be counted as bonus packs and I will try to send bonuses back to those who send them in, but again that depends on what is received. You can send in as little as 1 pack of seeds, there is no minimum to send in. As for the number of seeds in each packet, please send in the number of seeds that you would be comfortable receiving yourself. Some of this depends on the variety. Weather was a factor this year, too. I know some plants did not produce as many seeds as usual (at least here in SC because of the heat and drought) and maybe other places had those issues, too, or maybe too much rain. However, knowing that I had signed up to be hostess for this swap, I bought some Silver and/or Gold seeds when I saw them earlier in the year so there are some here waiting to be swapped! As for the colors, a gray will be counted as silver (for example Dusty Miller), a deep yellow will be counted as gold (for example Marigold Mumsy Orange) --- and there is that word in there, too - MariGOLD!!! Think about Touchstone Gold Beets, Pumpkin Autumn Gold, Plectranthus Silver Shield. Anyway, there are plenty to select from.
I hope you will join in. Any questions, please let me know.
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- Posted by sandlapper_rose z7B-8A SC (My Page) on Fri, Nov 19, 10 at 11:54
| Sorry all, this was meant to go under a new heading. I am taking care of that now. Sign up for the Silver and Gold Swap under the new heading, not here. Jeanne |
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