The Great Seed Giveway

Finally got around to purging the seed collection by giving a bunch away to the local buy nothing group.

These were given away:

Basil: Genovese - two packs available (commercial)

Basil: Thai (home-collected)

Bok choy: Bietola (commercial) I find it bolted to seed quickly

Bok choy: unknown variety (home-collected) I find it bolted to seed quickly

Broccoli: Waltham (commercial)

Broccoli: Green Sprouting (commercial)

Carrots: Touchon (commercial)

Carrots: Nantes Scarlet (commercial)

Kale: Premier Forage (commercial)

Kale: Siberian (commercial)

Kale: White Russian (commercial)

Lettuce: Black-seeded Simpson (home-collected)

Lettuce: Tom Thumb Butterhead (commercial)

Malabar spinach: Green Vine - 4 seeds left - can be tricky to grow (commercial)

Parsley: Single Hardy Italian (commercial)

Rosemary: Unnamed variety (commercial)

Swiss Chard: Barese (commercial) - this is a dwarf variety bought last year - very similar to bok choy - I found it bolted to seed very quickly

Tomato: Sweetie - cherry variety (commercial)

Tomato: Rainbow Blend (commercial)

Tomato: miscellaneous cherry variety (home-collected)

Tomato: miscellaneous large variety (home-collected)

Tomato: miscellaneous medium variety (home-collected)

Zucchini: Golden - 3 seeds left (commercial)

Zucchini: Golden Rush - 7 seeds left (commercial)

Zucchini: Ronde de Nice (round) - 4 seeds left (commercial)

Flowers:

Marigold (home-collected)

Nasturtium: Peach Melba (commercial)

Poppy: Oriental Scarlet (home-collected)

Poppy: Oriental Scarlet (commercial)

Poppy: Flanders Field (commercial)

Purple coneflower (home-collected)

Sunflower: Mammoth (commercial)

Sunflower: Mammoth (home-collected)

Sunflower: Evening Sun (commercial)

Sunflower: miscellaneous (home-collected)

These are still left over as of when I'm writing this:

Flowers:

Bidens (home-collected)

Black-eyed Susan (home-collected)

Forget-me-not: cynoglossum amabile -- the flowers are fully blue with a blue centre (not the yellow-center variety) (home-collected) -- I love these and grow them every year from home-collected seed, have lots of seeds so would love to share

Hollyhock (home-collected)

Lupin (home-collected)

Wild evening primrose (home-collected

Giveaways: Broccoli and short zinnias

Yay, 6 of the 11 broccolis I set out today were taken.  And most of the short zinnias that I had set out.

More giveaways to come provided I don't end up needing them for backup.

Giveaways: Ray tomatoes x 3; kale, broc, and chard on front step

Gave Ray his tomatoes today:  1 cherry, 1 medium, and 1 rainbow.  He'll finish hardening them at his place.

Gave kale, broccoli, and chard on front step.  The chard and kales went fairly quickly, while not one broccoli had yet been taken.  As I write this, 3 of the 7 broccolis remain.  Do people not like broccoli?  Or do they not like the worms :-)

Give-aways

Gave away 2 each of cucumber, cushaw, butternut, yellow zucchini, and ronde de nice.

Gave 4 tomato plants to Ray + 1 ground cherry

He decided not to buy any tomato plants this year at all.  I sure hope some of these will work for him!

- 1 Sweetie (cherry tomato)
- 1 tofubrick
- 1 medium
- 1 Scotia (a late start, way smaller than the others)
- 1 ground cherry