Hyacinth Hellos my friends ~
That time of year is once again upon us. We are in the process of figuring out what we want to plant. Some of us have begun planting inside. Some are ordering seeds. Spring is right around the corner. The sooner the better for a person like me who likes to see things growing.
Recently in Santa Barbara, we had the annual plant and seed exchange. (check out my recent videos) It gave me an idea for my group, The Pregnant Onion Club - which can be found at www.pregnantonion.gather.com . All I have to offer right now are snippets of a few succulents. That's how I grow most plants - from snippets. Also, I have some small Pregnant Onion babies - they're about the size of a marble but they grow to the size of a baseball and produce their own offspring. These are great to exchange with friends. I hope all the many folks who I've gifted with these remembers me. I still recall purchasing my first Pregnant Onion plant for a dollar in 1978 at the Goleta Flea Market!
So, if you want a small pregnant onion plant whose mother was a 70's chick, let me know. These can't be eaten! Also, if anyone in the group has any seeds or plant snippets to exhange, let us know so we can possibly trade. Remember anyone can grow anything no matter how small your space. Most plants just need water and sunshine.
Thanks for reading this and have a great day! Salud
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Thanks Patricia - nice to see you.
Thank you Marianne! I agree. Salud
I was going to do a Gather seed exchange last fall, but other things happened in my life that kept me from doing what I really wanted to. I'd collected about a gallon of 4 O'Clock seeds to send out, but Kevin and I opted instead to scatter them all along the foliage that grows near the beach and along the pier. I was just remembering that we'd done that the other day, and am really looking forward to seeing how much comes up from our scattering. It's my gift to Mayberry. :o)
If people will honestly trade I would love to trade!!
I just got a shipment of seeds/cuttings/bulb and sending out a basket plant,three spider (2 different kinds), 2 different kinds of coleus, strawberry begonia,aloe with baby, and creeping Charley in trade.
I am tickled when a trade works out! We have a lot of plants ;0) Like you we both here love to see things grow! I let my guy think the outside is his ;0) j/k do not tell him =0)
http://pregnantonion.com/default.aspx
Seed exchanges can be such fun!
In my new apartment, with only a couple of hours a morning of sun on the windowsill, I haven't been able to make anything but a bit of hosta happy. :-( Herbs, which I've always loved, seem to be better on the sunny high balcony I used to have.
Does anybody have any ideas about shade loving plants, expecially edile, that do well in small pots?
I have seeds from my last balcony crop of Vietnamese hot peppers that I'm willing to share. They are the same shape as Thai birdseye peppers, but twice as big, and just as wickedly hot. I'm not sure they'll do well o the present windowsill with no sun.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?memberId=307468&articleId=281474977561904&nav=MyGather
This sounds wonderful... I'd love to be able to join in this activity!
It's still way too cold in my section of Illinois where they are predicting some snow coming our way on Sunday... darn it! So, I haven't even looked at my seeds let along my gardens to see if I could get started on my spring gardening.
My sister died right around the time I should have been collecting some of the precious flower seeds to save for this year's planting so I lost the time and opportunity to do that when I went home to the Philippines for her funeral but I think I have I few packets that I managed to salvage just before I left. I'll have to get to them, they are currently saved in unaccessable baskets and I don't have a list of what they are so I can't even tell you what I have... maybe later? :-(
As soon as I get to my baskets, I'll post a list of seeds and people can let me know what they want to trade.