OhioGardener wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 9:07 pm Based on responses, bloodroot and wild strawberries (Fragaria virginiana) are being collected now. Later in the season, mother nature permitting, I'll be collecting Paw Paw and true Jerusalem Artichoke seeds. This won't be all that I'll send in. Just the desirable wild plants that I have growing on my property. The Lakomka sunflowers unfortunately are going to be iffy. While worrying about birds, chipmunks managed to dig up and eat every seed I've planted so far. Currently re-starting Lakomka seeds in peat pots indoors for transplant...

Please keep me updated on any paw paw seed harvest. I do not recommend that you stratify the seeds. It should be up to the seed requester to do so. And, looking at various websites, there is no agreement on how long it takes. The range is anywhere from 60 days up to 120 days. !00 to 120 days is what I've seen. I've been in a few swaps that offered paw paw seeds. There were usually only about 2 to 4 people requesting seeds.

Even though there is no guarantee of seeds at this point, it would be best for participants to put it on their wish lists well in advance of the swap.

Tormato wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2023 6:24 pm

OhioGardener wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 9:07 pm Based on responses, bloodroot and wild strawberries (Fragaria virginiana) are being collected now. Later in the season, mother nature permitting, I'll be collecting Paw Paw and true Jerusalem Artichoke seeds. This won't be all that I'll send in. Just the desirable wild plants that I have growing on my property. The Lakomka sunflowers unfortunately are going to be iffy. While worrying about birds, chipmunks managed to dig up and eat every seed I've planted so far. Currently re-starting Lakomka seeds in peat pots indoors for transplant...

Please keep me updated on any paw paw seed harvest. I do not recommend that you stratify the seeds. It should be up to the seed requester to do so. And, looking at various websites, there is no agreement on how long it takes. The range is anywhere from 60 days up to 120 days. !00 to 120 days is what I've seen. I've been in a few swaps that offered paw paw seeds. There were usually only about 2 to 4 people requesting seeds.

Even though there is no guarantee of seeds at this point, it would be best for participants to put it on their wish lists well in advance of the swap.

I normally wouldn't, but Paw Paw and Blood Root require special handling in order to remain viable. What are your thoughts?
They can't be allowed to dry out and Blood Root may also require cold-warm-cold in order to break the dormancy. I store these seeds in moist sphagnum moss in the refrigerator and will provide brief instructions. Paw Paws didn't have a lot of blooms this spring, but I have 5 acres of them, so I should be able to grab a sharable amount of seeds.

GoDawgs wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2023 6:47 pm Revised 6/22/23

Piracicaba broccoli, maybe - I've used most of the MMMM seed growing test plants and would like just a little more seed in case I don't get one of the ones I'm growing to set seed for saving. I'm testing the reputed heat tolerance.
NOTE: This didn't do well at all this spring. No heads made, only a few tall flowering stalks. I've never had a broccoli do that badly. It will be tried one more time in the fall. If it fails again I'll be dropping it from my wish list.

Lakomka sunflower - added 4/15

Moon & Stars watermelon - added 4/16. I was sure I had some from the recent MMMM but didn't have them when I went to start some yesterday. They weren't logged in either so I must have been dreaming and planted something I already had. Maybe Moon and Stars for this next swap.

Mirasol pepper (for drying to guajillo) - added 6/22

I have about 15 seeds of Moon & Stars, which means if no others come in, those three packs will be requested quickly.

The MMMM Master List - Peppers lists Mira Sol. but I have no idea if I still have any. Perhaps on the next rainy day, I can do a bit of inventorying.

Beans

Jumbo

Tomatoes

Dwarf Sweet Scarlet
Dwarf Loxton Lad
Dwarf Mr Snow
Dwarf Emerald Giant
Dwarf Saucy Mary
Dwarf Sleeping Lady
Dwarf Golden Heart
Dwarf Scarlet Heart
Dwarf Gloria's Treat
Karma Miracle
Karma Peach
Karma Pink
Karma Apricot
Midnight Sun
Cherokee Chocolate
Cherokee Green
Stump of the World
Indian Stripe PL
Bosque Blue Bumblebee
Pink Bumblebee
Green Tiger
Lucky Tiger

I haven't even come close to identifying what tomatoes (etc) I hope to grow next year

But another love I have is onions. Especially potato/multiplier onions. Yellow and white multipliers seem to be relatively easy to find, but red, less so.

If the weather is hot/dry multipliers will set seeds. In the hopes I might get crosses, I interplant potato onions with others in odd corners, even away from my regular gardens. Im hopeful that I have a few red multipliers this year, from seeds originally saved in 2021. This is the most promising batch, growing in a spot where irrigation isn't easy, and we have been very dry this June. But if there is interest I think I may be able to share a few small bulbs this fall...if Gary wants to be s clearinghouse.

Tomatoes:
Salvaterra’s Select
Fisher's Earliest Paste
Czechoslovakian (not Czechoslovakia that is a different tomato)
My goal is to find a productive early/cold weather paste tomato

Peppers
Trinidad perfume
aji cachucha purple splotched
Chocolate beauty or Sweet chocolate
Palanacho Cudo
Gatherer's Gold
Lipstick
I want to try fun early and sweet/mild peppers

Docmom wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 7:50 am Have you tried Amish Paste?

Your suggestion of Amish Paste is spot on. I grow it and I like it very much. The freezer trick sound promising, I will have to try it.
I am going to try stupice, but I didn't want to ask the exchange for seeds I can get locally. Hume seeds has it and a couple other early varieties and so I'll pick up a pack from the feed store in the spring.

Docmom wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 7:50 am My best sweet pepper has been Lipstick. They are very productive and flavorful, though I think they do take a while to change color.
Martha

That sounds like a really good variety, I will have to grow it, thank you

Update: famous last words ? " Gary, if its not too late to update my wish list one last time ? if I may please add Prof Plum in the Dining Room with the Knife and 2 micros - Dwarf Stripe and Vilma please ? " thank you

I can't believe its time to make a wish list ! I am sure I will edit this a " few " times LOL... here goes...

Tomatoes:
Carbon
Vorlon
Uptown Funk
Bread and Salt
Homer's German Oxheart
Kentucky Plate
Julia Child
Buzau 22
Pomodoro Cuore Antico di Aqui Terme
Desdimona's Heart
Margaret Curtain
SunGold
Oncle Remi
Mrs Maxwell's Big Italian
Tidwell German
Red Rose
Dwarf Little Red Corvette
Dwarf Raspberry Beret
Captain Lucky
True Colours
Rebel Starfighter Prime Kayleigh Anne
Der Kleine Doctor
Chef's Choice Red or Black
Black Strawberry


Peppers:
Big Bertha
Antebellum
Blitz
Tollies Sweet Italian Pepper
Jupiter
Naga Smooky Rainbow
Fooled You Jalapeno Coolapeno or Nadapeno


other Veggies:
a good slicing cucumber
a good pickling cucumber

other plants:
if enough are sent in, I would love 2 paw paw seeds, I understand you have to have 2 trees in order to get fruit ?

Herbs:
any basil
thyme

Watermelons:
Orangeglo

Any Flowers or these that NYTomatoNewbie mentioned:
Corydalis
Perennial poppy
Agastache
Lance leaf coreopsis
Queen of the prairie
Coneflower
Great coneflower
Ironweed
Goatbeard

would love any short varieties of flowers, any Zinnia too !

Wish List
1. Summer of Love
2. Oziris
3. Marmande Jaune
4. Teton de Venus Jaune
5. Moonshiner's Ball
6. Quapaw Green
7. Marmande Verte
8. Abraham Green
9. Moya
10. Moya Verte
11. German Chocolate
12. D'Amico
13. Guido
14. Diosporo de Maia
15. Pinky Tuscadero
16. Copperhead Dwarf
17. Costoluto Cantanese
18. Blue Tears
19. Beautiful Dreamer
20. Stallone Nero
21. Bacon, Lettuce, and This
22. Frau Hager Klein
23. Paprikar
24. Mrs. Bots Italian Giant
25. Red Fox

My Wish List (revised based on the Spoilers)

Batyanya (Taiga if N/A)
Belarusian Heart (Kermit if N/A)
Bordovyi
Couilles de Taureau (Pleine de Chair if N/A)
Daniels
Der Kleine Doctor
Faworyt
Fresa (Heshpole if N/A)
Honey & Sugar
Large Barred Boar
Limbaugh’s Legacy Potato Top
Loxton Lad
Mano
Manyel
McMurray #10 (Royal Hillbilly if N/A)
Negro de Aritzkuren
Purple Smaragd (Oncle Remi if N/A)
Queen Aliquippa
Rosy Finch
Rumi Banjan
Sandul Moldovan
Tsar Kolokol (Saucy Mary Dwarf if N/A)
Vorlon
Yellow Brick Road
Yusupov
Zamorano

Peppers
Anaheim
Czech Black
Espellete (’20 did not germinate)
Ise
Laylak
Leutschauer
Maria Nagy's Transylvanian Pepper
Mountaineer (Sweet Pepper)
Odessa Market
Rezha Macedonian Hot Pepper
Santa Fe Grande aka Guero or Caribe
Serrano
Zupska Rana

Thanks everyone! And especially Tormato.

The following is my wish list in the truest sense of the term and will be thrilled to get a fraction of what is listed.


Tomatoes
Bella Rosa
Big Rainbow
Black Cherry
Black Krim
Chef's Choice
Indigo Rose
Karen O Tomatoes, esp multicolor and/or heart
Lemon Boy
Lucid Gem
Pink Brandywine
Purple Bumblebee
Red Snapper
Sun Sugar
Super Sweet 100
Taiga

Note: I know some of these are hybrids and may be available by sending in money.


Pepper, Sweet
Any thick walled Sweet Pepper
Habanada
Lipstick
Nadapeno
Pablano
Trinidad Perfume

Pepper, Hot
Fish
Habanero
Jalapeno, Zapotec
Jalapeno
Trinidad Scorpion


Eggplant
Listada di Gandia
Mitoyo
Rosa Bianca
Rosita


Beans
Christmas
Jumbo
Red Noodle


Herbs
Basil, Red / Opal
Basil, Lime
Basil, Lemon
Basil, Greek
Cilantro
Dill
Lemongrass


Flowers / Pollinators / Ornamentals
Ageratum
Coleus
Gomphrena
Lupine
Marigold, Bedding
Nasturtium
Rudbekia, Brown-/Black-Eyed Susans are OK, but really looking for other varieties
Salvia
Snapdragons
Sunflowers
Yarrrow, Non-White
Zinnia, Any Queen Lime
Zinnia, Bedding
Zinnia, Tall


Cucumbers
Armenian
Silver Slicer


Squash, Summer
Pattypan, Yellow Sunburst
Squash, Lemon
Trombocino
Zucchini, Cocozelle

Squash, Winter
Butternut
Seminole


Okra
Cowhorn
Jamabalaya
Jing Orange
Okinawa Pink


Gourd
Loofah


Peas
Sugar Snap


Watermelon
Orangeglo
Sugar Baby
Desert Orange


Brassicas / Leafy Greens
Bok Choy
Broccoli, Burgundy
Cauliflower, Purple
Cauliflower, Other Varieties
Collards
Lettuce


Root Vegetables
Beets, Golden
Carrots
Radish, French Breakfast
Radish, Other Varieties
Turnips


Other
Artichoke
Rhubarb

I still dont know if I want any tomatoes, I have a million varieties to try from last years MMMM plus @AKgardener went crazy and sent me another million micros and dwarves.

Edit: yeah of course I want tomatoes who am I kidding

Tomato wishlist:
Bijskaya Roza
Rebel yell
Lila sari
Negro de aritzkuren ( I have the 1 seed, if there is more )
Eva purple ball
Black early
Indian stripe
Black prince
Cosmonaut volkov
Willamete
Oxaca jewel
Negro de Monte
Alaskan Fancy



Other stuff I would love:

Garlic, any type

Greens - lettuces, arugula, corn salad

Alliums - green onions, chives

Snap peas

Broccolini ( i think there are OP varieties now but might be wrong)

Oregano

Peppers - Padron

Edit to add: succulents! Cacti, mesembs, euphorbia or any fun and quirky ones.

Hope I'm not too late to jump in again this year for the MMMM Swap. From last year's swap I planted Persimmon, Casey's Pure Yellow, Karma Apricot, Blueberries and Orange Banana. They all did quite well. The Persimmon were huge, with many 3 lbs., and the Casey's Pure Yellow produced some big ones too.

Here is my Wish List for 2023:
TOMATOES
YELLOW/GOLD/WHITE
Aunt Gertie's Gold
Goldie
Great White
Lillian's Yellow
Striped German
West Virginia Yellow

PINK
Amish Pink
Domingo
German Queen
Large Mennonite
Marge's Polish Pride
Pink Pioneer
Portuguese Monster
Turkey Creek
Winsall

RED
Big Marley
Holyland
Mega Marv
Mountaineer Delight

HEART
Eugenia
Giant Syrian
Joe's Pink Oxheart
Pink Oxheart

PASTE
Italian Heirloom
Mrs. Maxwell's Big Italian

FLOWERS
Asters
Calendula
Celosia
Cosmos, Apricotta
Scabiosa
Snapdragons
Statice
Strawflower
Sunflowers - pollenless for flower arrangements
Zinnias - over 24"

Just noticed Tormato's list of available flowers and one from the Spoiler Alert, so would like to add these to my Wish List:

Agastache
Astrantia
Baptisia
Bluebeard
Blue Cardinal Flower
Columbine
Corydalis
Cranesbill
Double Feverfew
Flax Blue
Guara
Meadow Rue
Persicaria
Poppies - any but orange
Queen of the Prairie
Rose Campion
Sea Thrift
White Liatris
Yarrow

PEPPER
Long Sweet Twister

@agee I sent in some of the herbs you're looking for. Specifically, lemon basil, Greek basil, cilantro, and dill. I hope you get some! I also sent in some Long White of Palermo squash. It's commercial seed but I don't see why that wouldn't make a gardener happy.

For myself, I was so happy with what I received last year that I don't have a specific wish list! Just send me what you have, Gary. I'm sure I'll be very happy! And more than grateful. The local seed library has said yes to any of my overage as well.

Getting ready to send my seeds in...
So that means it is time to post a wish list too!
UPDATED list 1/24 after reading Spoilers, (many I requested were pretty rare so...)
Micros
Curley Kaley
Tartufo

Op Tomatoes
Blackfoot
Boggs Yellow Slicer
Dad's Mug
Eighth Wonder of the World (green)
Géante de Hutt
Godzilla
Grosse de Rodelle
Limbaugh's Legacy Potato Top
Grant County Pink
Italian Sweet - Pink PL large
KBX
Kiyevlyanka (Heart)
Lynnwood
Royal Hillbilly
Verde Claro
West Virginia Straw


More Rare wish list
Berg
Big Yellow Simpson
Blue Ridge Mountain
Butterscotch Beefsteak
Carrie Claxson
GABRIELLE (MILLARD MURDOCK)
Honeycomb cherry
Italian Heirloom
Katja
Kosovo
Kozula 174
Kozula 179
Lurley’s Paste
Lynnwood
Milka’s Red Bulgarian
Oaxacan Jewel
Rebel Starfighter Kayleigh Anne Pink ( not regular Kayleigh Anne)
Rebel Starfighter: Penny Lane
Red Dumplin Winner Pink
Romeo



Peppers
Aji Pineapple
Bridge to Paris
Caviar Calabrais
Fire and Ice
Gatherer's Gold
Lemon Spice Jalapeno
Naga Smoky Rainbow pepper


Greens
Blue Scottish Curled Kale
Dazzling Blue Kale
Rainbow Tatsoi
Wasabi arugula


Fun cucumbers- I will leave that up to interpretation!

Thanks in advance if anyone has any of these!
Heide

Wish List

1884 Purple
Belief
Bill Bean
Boondocks
Branscomb Orange
Burgess Lemon
Corky's Special
Dirty Curty
Dorothy's Mennonite (BS, , bicolor)
Dotson's Lebanese Heart
Dr. Carolyn Pink
Dwarf Wilpena
Giant of Siebenburgen
God Love
Green Gables
JTD
Lynn's
Lynn of Jones County
Miss Scarlet in the kitchen with a knife
Reinhard Kraft's Giant Astrakhansky
Stoney's Neighbor
Sweet Canero's Pink
Heirlooms over 100yrs old
Heirloom Beans
Heirloom Squash

For me
Tomatoes
Sart Roloise - dh really wants to try this one
Verde Claro

Micro Dwarf
Rosy Finch
Pygmy
Baby

Beans & Peas
Purple podded pole bean
Whipple – Bush, Dry
Black Beef Bush
Magnolia Blossom pea or other pea for leaves and tendrils

Herbs and flowers
Borage
Basil - any kind
Cilantro
Fennel
Lovage
Bread seed Poppy
Marigolds
from Experimental
tetsukabuto cross seeds
Pink volunteer cherry

Any of the braising or salad greens below for me to grow for my friend such as those listed below:
Any cutting celery
Any Asiatic green or brassic to try
Kales - Lancinato, russian, Blue Scottish Curled, etc any and all types for her to try
Chard of various kinds
Amaranth edible varities not the flowers
Celtuce
Lettuce any kind but iceberg types

For Wyoming gardener 2
Korean pepper to use for Gochugaru
Striped sugar rush peach peppers
any paste tomato the earlier the better
Ruby Slippers
Yellow Brick Road
Fuzzy Blue Balls
Snow Peas any kind
Beans any kind
Tom Thumb Pea
1 or 2 micro dwarfs any kind
Bread seed Poppy

Finally mailed my MMMM package today. This wish list is enclosed.

Tomatoes (25):
Allegheny Sunset
Bill Bean
Blackberry
Brandysweet Plum
Bugtussle Buttermilk Wonder
Fritz Ackerman
Grant County Pink
Hawaiian Pineapple
Hibor
Lynnwood/Lynwood
Mary Reynolds
Mary Robinson (Mary Robinson's German Bicolor)
Minnie Bussell
Orange Russian 117
Reinhard Kraft's Purple Sugar
Rose Quartz
Royal Hillbilly
Rozovyi Gigant
Sakharnyi Pudovichok
Sandul Moldovan
Usbekistan
Virginia Sweets
West Virginia Straw
West Virginia Sweetmeat
Yusupov (Yusupovskyi S Fergany)

Peppers:
Dulce Mediterrano (sweet)
Lipstick (sweet)
Atris hybrid (sweet)
Any red/orange/yellow snack pepper (sweet)
Any red/orange/yellow corno-type pepper (sweet)
Guajillo (mild chile pepper)

Other:
Paw Paw (tree)
Bloodroot (wildflower)
Zinnias, any kind
Salvia

A few wishes, albeit late. I keep a notepad near as I read the forum so no excuse for my not sharing sooner.

For FALL growing at the MG donation garden:
any Bok Choy, but preferably taller varieties go further for the space allocated. One of the "Winter" varieties was particularly spectacular.

any "Sweet" Swiss chard project varieties
The crew only does one planting and picks the heck out of it. My mid summer it not only looks ratty but tastes bitter. It would be awesome to try something different. Not my palate by a long shot but I do love beets which I believe are in the same family.

For myself:

Any of the newer extraordinary tomatoes from Karen O's works. Any size , color, shape I know they will be spectacular.

A few newer micro varieties, if available. The first generation was only palatable to me doused in salad dressing which is something I am scaling back on due to sodium restriction (and sugar, and oil, etc.)

From spoiler alerts,
seed dahlias, just a sprinkle of seeds if available I started mine from Baker Creek too early last year and they were blooming on my windowsill. Most were white and the usual indoor bugs didn't like them
colored coneflowers

Thank you to everyone for making this another great swap year. A special thank you to Tormato fo,r well, everything he does to keep this going and growing.

- Lisa

TOMATOES

1 Carneal Tiger
2 Creamsicle Grape
3 Domingo
4 Dragon's Eye
5 Emerald Apple
6 Frog Princess
7 Fuego Verde
8 German Chocolate
9 Green Sausage
10 Hippie Zebra
11 Iva's Purple Rust
12 Jack@ss
13 Lea Van Annemarie
14 Lincoln Adams
15 Marquise Rosa
16 Matt's Folly
17 Moldovan Green
18 Painted Lady
19 Patty's Striped Beefsteak
20 Pink Cadillac
21 Pink Sapphire
22 Professor Plum In The Dining Room With The Knife
23 Reinhard's Chocolate Heart
24 Rose of Tashkent
25 Turks Muts

Types - Pink, Eastern European, Green, Black, Heart

Peppers - Anything. I did not send any in this year as I ran out of time.