Come Join Us! 5th Annual Tomato & Pepper Seed Exchange

[bower]

WOW! My seeds arrived today Heather, THANK YOU!! Great selection of my wishes plus surprises and so much more! Thanks to everyone for the swap and for the generous bonus and other vegetables.. I am over the moon.

Happy Holidays everyone, and Pants, congratulations on the little one!!
May we all find the bigger gardens that we now need...

[koshki]

Heather,
Thanks so much for the wonderful assortment of seeds! I wish I could plant them all...I don't know how I will ever decide!!

Thanks to everyone who has participated as well!

Katherine

[nicky]

Congratulations Pants!

My seeds arrived today! Thank you so much Heather. I really appreciate all of your hard work. My package is amazing! I can't imagine how much time & effort goes into a swap this large. I hope that Santa is good to you this year

[Rideau Rambler]

Hooray, my package arrived today! Happy dance Thank you so much Heather for all your hard work in getting so many items on my wish list. Thanks everyone for growing and sharing so many interesting and diverse vegetables!

Dear Santa....please bring me the above suggested large roll of cardboard so I can have much much more garden space.

[ddsack]

Package arrived today! Can't believe it made it here in only 5 days during the Christmas postal crush. Also can't believe you managed to get some of my hard-to-find requests. A Big Thank You for putting all this together, I know I couldn't do it.

[Appaloosa909]

Hi Heather,
My seeds arrived yesterday. Thank you again for a wonderful exchange. Your organization amazes me! Hope you have a great Holiday.

Andrea

[spacetogrow]

Heather, the package of seeds came last night. Wonderful job you did; I'm very impressed!

Thanks to all who contributed.

Have a great 2013.

[O.P. Mater]

Heather!

The seeds arrived about 15 minutes ago! I am so excited and can't wait to begin learning about all of the new varieties. Thank you so much for taking on such an enormous task. You have certainly brightened my corner of the world and I am very grateful. Thanks to the participants.....your seeds will soon be finding a home in SC soil where they will be surely tested by both weather and insects..........:-)

Pants........congratulations to you. Hope the crying has subsided, but just remember that it will eventually stop. Cherish the time.

[sicily]

Heather!!!

My seed package arrived and I can't thank you enough!!!!! For starters, I'm a beekeeper and the stamps had honeybees on them, I just loved the stamps and will save them. The varieties of tomatoes , peppers, and bonus packages were amazing. I've been looking for some of those tomatoes for sometime, so, so exciting. Thanks so very much, the whole experience has been wonderful. I just wish Canada were closer to Indiana, would love to meet you and the others in the exchange. Best wishes to you for happy holidays, you have made mine very joyous with all these new seeds to plant. All your work putting together this exchange is very much appreciated.

[tnpeppers]

Hi, Heather! My seeds arrived today, and may I add my voice to the chorus of cheers from those recipients of this awesome bounty of tomato and pepper seeds! OMG doesn't even begin to describe it...lots of goodies from my want list! Now on to the next task...more land; because I am going to need it! Thank you to the members of this forum and others who took time out to participate in this swap...your generosity is MUCH appreciated! Can't thank you enough, Heather...you did a magnificent job! Standing and applauding!

[halleone]

They're heeere! Thank you so much, you have outdone yourself again. It will be quite a growing year. And thank you also to all those who contributed so generously.

[Pants]

Through the snow came a smiling postman with a package for me (seeds!!!) and a package for the baby (from his uncle he is named after). Thank you so much, I can't imagine how much work this all must have been. I got seeds off my wishlist I thought were really obscure and I'd be looking for for years. Also thank you for all the well wishes and gratz for the baby. He's doing the growth spurt non-stop feeding thing now.

Anyone who got my Ghost Cherry seeds they are my favorite move them to the top of your grow list!

[Mandy97]

I received the package in the mail today. Thank you very much Heather! It was a great Christmas surprise. I also wanted to thank everyone who sent in bonus seed. I have quite a few new varieties and seed that I haven't grown before. Happy Holidays!

Mandy

[bluebonnets]

Thank you, Heather!! My seeds arrived today and I am so thrilled! I can't believe all the cool varieties and oh the fun of planning! Thanks for your hard work and thank you to all who participated!

[dinca]

Hi Heather. I received "the envelope" today - Christmas Eve - a very nice Christmas present. Thank you! You mailed it on December 7, so it took 17 days to travel 1304 road miles (77 miles a day).

Here's MY result:

I contributed 14 varieties of OP tomatoes in 36 packets, 4 varieties of dwarf tomatoes in 17 packets and 1 hot pepper variety in 2 packets, a total of 19 varieties in 55 packets.

I requested 22 tomato varieties, 3 sweet pepper varieties and 2 hot peppers.

I received 41 tomato varieties of which 12 matched my requests (55%), 4 varieties of sweet peppers of which 3 matched my requests (100%) and 18 varieties of hot pepper of which 1 matched my requests (50%). I received 63 packets in exchange for my 55 submissions. Overall 59% of my requests were matched. Not bad at all, a success in my book. Thanks again, Heather, AND to all the other contributors, as well.