My First Seed Swap

These are some of the 35+ seeds packets we
brought to the Lurie Garden seeds swap

Last week my mom and I went to a Lurie Garden seed swap. We brought melons, carrots, marsh mallow, tomato seed and beans. First, we laid all our bags of seeds on a table divided into three sections: annuals, perennials and vegetables. Then we met Mr. BrownThumb, (a locally famous gardener) and saw one of his PowerPoint presentations about sowing seeds. Next we helped ourselves to a rather large variety of seeds.

Seed heaven!

After the seed swapping was over, six hungry gardeners were getting ready to go home and eat lunch. Mr. BrownThumb thoughtfully stated that we all go to a pizza place. We all agreed. So Robb, Mary, Mr. BrownThumb, my mom and I went to lunch. Our pizza would take a while, so we chatted about seeds. I asked Mr.BrownThumb how to keep cats away from seedlings. He suggested that we grow cat greens to distract it. Then, while the grownups talked, I drew a picture of a plant. Robb, who had recently given me some Love-Lies-Bleeding seeds drew a Hosta, and Mary who gave me some Loofa seeds, showed me how she used to draw bunnies. Soon, our pizza arrived. Not long after that, we headed home to look at all our new seeds.

Loofah Seeds from a nice lady named Mary

These are the seeds we took home, note the pretty and unusual
Love-Lies-Bleeding seeds in the top row

Funny favorites!

I can't wait till the next seed swap! The Forest Park Community Garden is having a seed swap this Sunday, Feb 27th and there is also the Peterson Garden seed swap on March 6th.

By-the-way, did you know that there are over 300,000 species of plant and there are more to be discovered?!

Kara