2024/2025 Tomato Spoiler Alert

[Tormato]

I don't think I've ever saved so many seeds before and done this much packing and labeling!
I'm getting close to mail in the next 10 days or so.

Spoiler list:
Tomatoes - 10 packs each unless noted, usually about 8-13 seeds/pack unless noted

Adora
Afternoon Delight
Bundaberg Rumball Dwarf
Carbon
Chocolate Pear
Dester
Dwarf Galen’s Yellow 3 packs
Dwarf Johnson's Cherry 5-8 seeds/pack
Empress GMO 25 packs of about 20-24 seeds/pack
(I started with about 6 plants, cloned some, but wish I had more. 'Last few survived a few frosts.)
Indigo Cherry Drops
Lovely Lush 2 packs (I was short on these seeds, but didn't see this on the master list)
Orange Peach 20 packs
Pink Jazz
Porterhouse (stabilized from hybrid, 16 packs, only one plant this year, but it is a great producer!)
Tropical Sunset 14 packs, one of my favorite cherry tomatoes

Peppers:
Orange Habanero 1 pack
Purple Beauty Bell 1 pack

Other:
Paw Paw tree seeds 1 pack, keep cool and moist, currently in my fridge, treated with 10% bleach to prevent mold
Egyption Walking Onion bulblets ( 1 or 2 packs, noticed the request, last yet to pack, not sure how to best wrap these)

Any interest in garlic chive seeds, or is this a weed for most folks? I eat them from early spring through late fall.
I also have some tall marigold seeds, yellow and orange if desired.

Egyptian Walking Onions bulbils should be packaged on a case by case basis. If freshly harvested, and packing dozens upon dozens of then, a sealed air-tight method likely should not be used. The moisture released from all of the bulbils usually causes them to both sprout green shoots and roots.

If they were harvested a couple of months ago, are now drier, and you're not sending that many, "maybe" a sealed bag. If there really isn't any smell to them, something breathable would be OK.

I have an interest in the garlic chives.

Marigolds are always welcome.

[marisolstice]

I am sending cover crop seeds:

Buckwheat
Lupine (think it's Sweet Blue)
Daikon Radish
Iron and Clay Cowpea
Sparky French Marigold

I think I put enough in each packet to cover 1 or 2 typical 4x8 garden beds. I am sending 10-15 packets of each, but if anyone wants more, let me know since I have more here.

[midwestfarmwife]

Still working on my seed packets. More to come. Updated 10/25/24 Updated 10/26/24 Decided to let the others be a surprise.
TOMATOES
A Grippoli D' Inverno
Arctic Rose
Brandy Cowlick's
Chocolate Berry
Cuore Di Bue
Dad's Mug
Dwarf Blazing Beauty
Dwarf Sweet Scarlet
Exerted Orange
Flor de Artana
Geante de Hutt
Girl Girl's Weird Thing
Gloire de Malines
Golden Buddha
Granny's Throwing
Green Zebra
Groovy Tunes
Grosse de Rodelle
Helsing Junction Blues
Hssiao His Hung Shih
Kiyevlyanka
La Vie en Rose
Lloyd E. Frey
Maerchenfee
Meat Breakfast
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Rab Orjak
Rugoso Di Consenza
Russian Current
Sweet Pea Current
Terhune
Venus
White Current
White Tomesol
Yellow Current

FLOWERS
Bee Balm, Lavender
Cut Flower Mix Annual
Datura White Angel Trumpet
Foxglove Gloxinia flora
Foxglove Purple
Peek-a-Boo

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Cucumber Wild
Ground Cherry
Habanero Lemon Yellow
Melon Fordhook Gem
Melon Minnesota Midget
Melon Orlinabel
Melon Swan Lake
Melon Zatta
Pumpkin Galeux d' Eysines
Tomatillo Purple
Watermelon Landrace

MISCELLANEOUS
Luffa Gourd
Motherwort
Tiny Vetch
Wax Gourd

[Gthegardener]

Tomatoes:
1. Rebel starfighter Kayleigh Anne (extremely productive mid season to first frost, very delicious balanced flavor)
2. Hoosier outlaw black cherry (loved this large cherry, deep flavor profile, very productive)
3. New Yorker cherry (largest “cherry” I’ve ever seen, insanely productive, good traditional flavor)
4. Ginger fox
5. Chillomat (great tasting small pear tomato, very productive)
6. Legenda tarasenko (good producer, traditional paste flavor, medium size)
7. Primorski pacug
8. Siletz (incredible flavor, biggest beefsteak I’ve grown in a while, late season, lower productivity, shorter plant)
9. Marchenfee
10. Couilles de taureau
11. Lady fingers (yellow) cascading type
12. Shimofuri cascading type
13. maskotka (variegated) cascading type
14. Tartufo micro 10”
15.Snegirjok micro 10”

Herbs:
Lemoncello lemon balm
Lemon basil
Greek oregano

Flowers:
Daucus carota Purple Kisses 3’
Candy mix zinnia 6’
Zahara double raspberry ripple zinnia 20”
Cupcakes pink mix zinnia 2’
Queen lime purple mix zinnia 3-4’
Queeny lemon peach zinnia 3’
Cupid mix zinnia 2-3’
Queen lime blush mix zinnia 3-4’
Senora zinnia 3-4’
Diablo cosmos 12”
Marigold happy days 2-4’wide x 12” gorgeous colors and flower variation (pics below for size and color sorry it’s blurry it was dusk)
French marigold disco (yellow variety) 12”

Other:
Violet bell pepper
Mother Mary’s pie melon
Blue coco snap bean
Aunt Molly’s Ground Cherry
Indian snake cucumber (I’ve never saved cucumber seeds before and these are turning out to be quite tricky, so add to your wishlist at your own risk )

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[eyegrotom]

Well. After many many hours of making labels and packing in to small zip bags, only to run out and have to order more I am finely done. Over 900 bags with over 60 different varieties. It will all go to the Post Office today.[attachment=0]IMG_20241023_140121_hdr.jpg[/attachment]

[mamadisalvo]

Headed your way from Oregon! About 15 bags of each.

Barry’s crazy cherry
Black beauty
Brandyfred (dwarf)
Cannabec rouge
Chocolate champion (dwarf)
D’amico
Dancing with Smurfs
Early Cascade
Fat frog
Fireworks
GG’s glory (micro)
Helsing Junction
Kangaroo Paw (dwarf)
Kryptonite
Legend
Lucid Gem
Martino’s Roma
Mr. Snow (dwarf)
Orange crush
Persimmon
Piennolo giallo
Piennolo del Vesuvio
Pineapple
Red Robin (micro)
Rebel Starfighter Prime
Sherkahn (dwarf)
Siletz
Soldaki
Thorburn’s Terra Cotta
Tigerella
Whippersnapper

[iva*hi*hope]

So far I have to send:
Arlene’s Big Red (beefsteak)
Bronza (small beefsteak/large saladette)
Laura micro
Miri Miri micro
GG’s Glory micro
Yellow Canary micro
Fat Frog micro
Dark Brandy (beefsteak)

I hope to have at least that many more varieties ready so I can mail in by Monday, November 4th. I have some other good stuff I haven’t gotten into yet.

Hope

[mystressgarden]

Would anybody be interested in jicama/Mexican Jam bean seeds? It's an edible root that's crunchy, a little sweet, and stays kinda crunchy when you cook it but it can be eaten raw or cooked.

[Tormato]

Would anybody be interested in jicama/Mexican Jam bean seeds? It's an edible root that's crunchy, a little sweet, and stays kinda crunchy when you cook it but it can be eaten raw or cooked.

I will accept them sent in your package, but I will only send them out on special request.

My understanding is that ALL parts of the plant are POISONOUS other than the flesh of the tuber (seeds, vines, leaves, tuber skin, roots, etc...), and I will label them so.

I do the same for castor beans,

and hyacinth beans (which supposedly the poison can be cooked out of these).

[Seven Bends]

Sent today: Red Penna (on the return request card that was included in my 2022 MMMM package). This is an excellent large red indet beefsteak -- delicious, meaty, healthy, productive, and not much catfacing/weirdness.
VA WU L

[Tormato]

Sent today: Red Penna (on the return request card that was included in my 2022 MMMM package). This is an excellent large red indet beefsteak -- delicious, meaty, healthy, productive, and not much catfacing/weirdness.
VA WU L

For those confused about the "Categories" part of the swap, Red Penna can go into three of the categories, Red, Beefsteak and Oldies But Goodies.

The Beefsteak category would be so large, I don't even list it by varieties. I usually just sort beefsteaks into categories of the various colors. And the Oldies But Goodies doesn't get a list either. They're not often requested, so such varieties get put into other categories. When participants do request OBG, I generally know which ones to pull from the other categories.

There are varieties that can go into 4 or 5 categories, but I'm not going there, for now.

[bjbebs]

Just got a 1 1/2" rain. Bone dry for 3 weeks and these plants immediately woke up.
Salvia Skyscraper- pink, Coral Nymph, Vista-red, Bodacious Smokey Jazz have constant attention from bees and Hummers. Feeders are near all the salvia and they hop back and forth. When the young birds flew the coop in early July it's been nonstop. Will start saving spent spikes for seed. I don't plant much seed myself but prefer to winter over cuttings. These explode when they go outdoors in spring. Got cuttings of Smokey Jazz this spring from a friend who started from saved seed. Hopefully seed will mature on the spike. This Smokey Jazz is a killer Hummer magnet.PXL_20240816_141015767.jpgPXL_20240816_141121676.jpgPXL_20240816_155327963.jpgPXL_20240816_155351584.jpg

Update on Salvia guaranitica hybrids. Skyscraper and Bodacious don't, can't or won't make seed. I suspect these proprietary hybrids are being bred to be sterile.The calyx looks as though seed is forming but doesn't separate. I saved a few that might pop but not enough to send in. I carry over clones and clone these again in Feb for my plant outs. These hybrids are available at a local greenhouse I trade with. He grows a dozen or so guaranitica hybrids but of course not from seed. Liners can be had but only in bulk.

[MissS]

I will be replenishing SunGold and SunSugar, again. I purchase these in a bulk quanity so that you can enjoy a discount on some of the best cherries out there. We are requesting a $1.00 donation for each pack. The money that you send in is to help replenish the seeds for the following years. Getting the donation has not been easy. This is not a sustainable offer unless you all help and pitch in. If you are in a tight spot, we are more than happy to help you. If not, then please don't take advantage of the offer, send in $1.00 to help cover the cost of the seeds.

Thanks for your understanding and enjoy!

[rxkeith]

thanks for doing so patti.
i will be sure to put a few extra dollars in the packet since
i will be asking for some sun gold seeds.



keith

[greenthumbomaha]

Hi Patti - Thank you once again for organizing this group purchase. We had a very long, hot, sunny growing season. Sungold , Sunsugar, (and Esterina ) produced like crazy despite the over 90 degree temps and were growing well beyond the bounds of their large cages. I wander over and snack on a few every couple of minutes, with dirty hands, while I work outside. These are basically why I grow tomatoes. I used up the last of my stock over sowing older seed which of course all germinated.

- Lisa

[colcol2]

From colcol2 (CO TH C)

Spoiler list:
TOMATOES - about 10 packs each, 10-12 seeds

Black Sea Man
Boobie aka Bobbie
Blood Moon
Cherokee Purple Cherry
Cosmic Eclipse
Daniels
Dark Galaxy
Eva Purple Ball
Faelan's First Snow
Gargamel
Marsha's Starfighter Beefsteak
Monkey Ass
Osu Blue aka P-20
Rebel Alliance
Blaine's Moonlight
Rebel Starfighter Prime
Rebel Yell
Toad Suck Toad
Wine Jug

SWEET PEPPERS: 10 packs each
Apple Crisp
Chocolate Twister
Elephant Ears
Long Sweet Twister
Murasaki Purple
Quatro Milpas Chile (medium heat)
Zulu

BEANS: Unless marked otherwise, most have at least 10 packs of between 5-10 seeds, a few with bulk extra in main bag if needed or for future.
A few of these are on some wish lists already.
Adzuki
Bird Egg Blaue
Blue Jay - 1
Black Nightfall
Blooming Prairie - 2
Blue Ribbon - 3
Blue Shackamaxon
Brockton Horticultural - 2
Buckskin Girl -5
Candy - 1
Duane Baptiste Potato
Falcon
Hidatsa Red Indian
Hidatsa Shield
Hopson Silver Way - 3
Jumbo - 3
Lina Sisco's Bird Egg - 3
Maggie's Cresent
Magpie
Money
October Bush - 3
Olga
Red Valentine Bush
Red Swan - 2
Rouge de Paris - 2
Scuba
Snowcap - 1
Tigre
Tuscarora Bread
Vermont Cranberry - 1

MISC: at least 10 packs each
Drott's Yellow Ground Cherry
Strawflower (Scabiosa stellata)

[BettyC-5]

Mailed on Friday
tomatoes:
Black Elephant
Jory
Margaret Curtain

Bush beans:
Fort Portal Jade
Maine Yellow Eye
Montezuma Red
Wyatt-snap, stringless

Pole beans:
Blue Marbut-snap
Cranberry Fielder
Christmas Lima
Flagg
Missouri Wonder-stringless when young
Ohio-snap
Quin Bian- large flat, stringless, tender, another favorite

I'm including some Black Jungle Butter Bean seeds that haven't done well
for me. Most are older. Will let Gary decide who gets them to try.

[MissS]

Esterina F1 will be added to the group buy. Thank you @greenthumbomaha for reminding me.

[rdback]

...I'm including some Black Jungle Butter Bean seeds that haven't done well
for me. Most are older. Will let Gary decide who gets them to try.

I had the same issue with Black Jungle Butterbean. I received my seeds from Harry Dodge (GW:Flintnapper) back in 2010. I think Harry was the original distributor, and also named the bean. I also think these beans don't like cool/cold temps. Harry lived in Florida, where they grew quite well.

[habitat-gardener]

I finally packed some seeds! Here's what I'll be sending today:
all saved garden seeds, 2024 unless noted otherwise

TOMATOES, all indet.
Cowboy, dark beefsteak
Jersey Breeze, red slicer
Tommy Toe, red cherry

PEPPERS
Ajvarski
Chocolate Cake
Gatherer’s Gold
Lesya
Red Ruffled Pimento
Violet Sparkle

MARIGOLDS
Alumia Vanilla Cream 2022
Red Marietta
Red Metamorph 2022
Safari Red

BEANS
Thai Soldier long bean

SQUASH
Musquée de Maroc, winter
Tatume, summer, vining

MELON
Prescott Fond Blanc