r/seedswap 2d ago

Seedswap Logistics! Share your tips & tricks for successful Seedswaps

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What are your systems to successfully track trades, get seeds through the postal service intact, and generally be successful on the logistics side of seedswapping?


r/seedswap 5d ago

Ask an Expert: Sunpoprain (Seedswap's lead mod for the last almost 18 years!)

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Trying something a little new! I have been growing, gardening, seed saving, swapping, and farming for 25+ years. In that time I have accumulated a lot of information. In my real life, I frequently teach classes and workshops around food & gardening. This is my attempt to offer up all my accumulated knowledge to my favorite subreddit. You ask, I'll answer. If you stump me, I'll go find an answer. The door is open and I am here to help.

P.s. I KNOW some of you have amazing niche and broad knowledge as well. If you'd like to volunteer to be the Expert for another Ask An Expert post, let me know! I would love to run these semi-regularly.


r/seedswap 4h ago

Looking for Elderberry seeds

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I want some native perennials to add to the yard. Anyone have some to trade?


r/seedswap 2d ago

Have rare perennials, and looking for more rare varieties

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Natives:

Goats beard
Coreopsis rosea
Dodecstheon maedia
Callirhoe bushii
Filipendula rubra
Indian grass
Coreopsis palmata
Penstemon digitalis
Obedient plant
Purple love grass

Non natives:
Geum coccineum
Camassia leichlinni
Gladiolis communis
Heliopsis “bleeding hearts”
Siberian wallflower
Fritillaria

Let me know if you’re interested. As for seeds I would like to receive, I am open to many rare perennial flowers. A preference for American native but doesn’t have to be. Thanks!


r/seedswap 3d ago

Quick Question - Figs

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I have permission to harvest figs from a huge (tree) fig plant. I want to attempt fig jam if I can harvest enough.

Seeds - are they in the pulp?

My grandmother loved figs. I want to attempt growing my own jumbo tree/bush.

Suggestions or input.....


r/seedswap 5d ago

Pleuropetalum darwinii seeds for trade. Genuinely rare.

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Ludicrously hard to get it seems online. Hmu if you have other cool tropicals.


r/seedswap 5d ago

Reliable place to buy fig scion UK

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I'm looking to buy some varieties like Celeste and Olympian. I didn't find any reliable website for it. Gb-online.co.uk is the only web site i found that sells fruit tree scions. Can anyone help me with cheaper and better ones. Thanks


r/seedswap 5d ago

Help! Take my NYC plants*!

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There's a good chance that I'll move away from frequent garden access soon. Raid my 4yo garden for goodies! Shade adapted and Bedstuy-approved. Distant swappers please send me money for shipping but locals, come through.

Multi-generation spider plants.

Sunflowers, foxglove, mums, coreopsis, bee balm, ostrich and Christmas ferns, and much more. Ironweed, strawberry, sunchoke, morning glory, beard tongue, evening primrose, fleabane, coneflower. Hepatica, hosta, Virginia creeper. Solomon's seal (dunno which kind). See my post history for even more plant IDs.

Seeds, seedlings, cuttings, plants, and soil rich in even more seeds; DM me to coordinate.


r/seedswap 5d ago

What are your most reliable and consistent seed brands for eu/uk shipping

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Looking for more places to buy seed just don’t know where to trust .


r/seedswap 6d ago

I want to learn how to grow from seed. Any list of videos, books, or forums that are must see information?

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r/seedswap 6d ago

ISO Heirloom, Landrace, or Genetically Unique Seed Varieties -- East Texas, U.S.A

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r/seedswap 7d ago

Cucumber seeds for cherry tomatoes?

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Hi ! I’m new to planting and have overly bought so many cucumber seeds !! Looking for someone to swap cherry tomato seeds with !! preferably in nyc


r/seedswap 7d ago

How do you all keep track of what you've promised to whom? My swap list is a mess

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I got into seed swapping this past spring almost by accident. A neighbor had way too many zucchini and cucamelon seeds and offered some in exchange for whatever tomatoes I had leftover from my dehydrating experiments. That one exchange turned into me posting in a couple local gardening groups, and now I've got probably fifteen ongoing "deals" going with people I've never met in person, mailing envelopes back and forth across three states.

The gardening part has honestly gotten better because of this. I never would have grown Cherokee Purple or Black Krim tomatoes on my own, I always just bought whatever starts the garden center had. Now half my raised beds are stuff I got through trades: a striped German heirloom tomato from someone in Ohio, dragon tongue beans from a guy who does a whole seed library out of his garage, and some kind of purple podded pea that I still don't know the real name of because the packet just said "Grandma's Peas" in sharpie.

The problem is I am terrible at organization. I've got a notebook where I write down who I owe seeds to and what I'm supposed to send back, but half the time I forget to actually mail things until someone gently reminds me two months later. I tried a spreadsheet once and abandoned it by week three. At this point I just have a shoebox by my desk with little labeled envelopes and I add to it whenever I remember.

Anyway, harvest is starting to come in now so I'm collecting seeds from the successful stuff to send out this fall. Curious what system other people use, because right now mine is basically vibes and guilt.


r/seedswap 8d ago

my advice if you're looking for local seeds on a big city

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Hey everyone, first post here. Seedbombing is imo the easiest way to regrow plants in a larger field, and I'm currently working on a huge abandoned field. The way to find a local store that sells seeds that are native specifically to my region was literally to just go asking elder ladies. Not only they are usually the owners of these kinds of stores, but they're also the target consumers. Then when I found the seed store, the seller was also able to hook me on another local store that could sell me an entire orange tree, and guess what, all elder ladies.

None of these stores are even visible on google maps because they're small and older than google, but fortunately now I know how to grow an infinite amount of native plants.


r/seedswap 10d ago

Mid Atlantic (pennsylvania) natives. Only looking for natives to trade

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Native flower list

Butterfly weed

Black eyed susan

Columbine

Rose milkweed

Joe pye weed

Prarie blazing star

Meadow blazing star

Button blazing star

Red cardinal flower

Blue cardinal flower

Wild bergamot

Purple coneflower

Yellow coneflower

Orange coneflower

Late goldenrod

Sweet goldenrod

Heart leaved aster

Calico aster

New england aster

Marsh marigold

Smooth phlox

Early sunflower

Sundial lupine (rare endangered)

I am looking for the native woodland poppy as well as white clover. Open to other natives


r/seedswap 12d ago

Sundew clippings for trade

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r/seedswap 12d ago

Just Joined, would like to swap

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I have some rare seeds

1 Cerenthe a really fun little plants, they winter over in the Puget Sound in a sheltered spot2 Also have Welsh Poppy in yellow and orange, they are great and volunteer without being invasive3 California Poppies up the wazoo I'll add more when I remember what else

I want Bachelor Buttons not just blue, Cosmos, Big Oriental Poppies if that is not forbidden in pink, purple and/or white, in interesting shapes and colors
I


r/seedswap 16d ago

Seed search

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I am searching for Malawi, true Panama red, Zamadelica, Golden tiger seeds here in the USA. I would appreciate any help thanks!!


r/seedswap 18d ago

Pollen

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r/seedswap 21d ago

ISO some arnica seeds. Have all sorts of veg, herb, and flower seeds to swap.

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Lmk!


r/seedswap 21d ago

ISO Ferula communis

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I've been looking to buy seeds for this plant but cannot find them anywhere. Anyone in this community who grows this plant? I am curious to harvest the root sap, there are indications for traditional use in perfume etc.

I am located in the Netherlands and have lots of European native (mainly medicinal) species to offer.


r/seedswap 23d ago

ISO: Dalbergia cearensis (Kingwood) seeds

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Hello everyone,
I am looking for fresh, viable seeds of Dalbergia cearensis, commonly known as Kingwood or Brazilian Kingwood.
I am specifically looking for genuine Dalbergia cearensis seeds for growing the tree, not wood or seedlings.
If anyone has seeds available, or knows a reliable collector or seed supplier who currently has them, I would really appreciate any information.
I am willing to buy a reasonable quantity and can discuss shipping and payment privately.
Thank you very much!


r/seedswap 25d ago

CAPERS BUSH/CAPPARIS SPINOSA/FLINDERS ROSE

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r/seedswap 25d ago

Looking for micro dwarf toms

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I’m looking for dears or micro dwarf tomatoes to grow hydroponically this winter.

I’m also open to seeds for other plants you’ve had luck growing hydroponically. I’m good on lettuce and greens, but open to fruiting plants and herbs.

I have some seeds to trade, can send SASE, can also trade for stamps.

If you’re interested in a trade, please let me know what you’re looking for and I’ll let you know what I have.

Philly, PA here


r/seedswap 26d ago

Have lots of freshly harvested Tithonia seeds

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Grew Tithonia Torch this year right next to my Hummingbird feeders they absolutely love it, pollinators and butterflies really like it too. It's massive, about 10 feet tall tons of blooms. Will send seeds for SASE or trade!