To my fellow South African Gardeners;
I have lots of seeds to trade and I am looking for new seeds to try. Let me know if you are interested.
I have:
Clivia miniata (orange)
Sweet peppers (purple, red and yellow)
Peppadew
Tamarillo
Strawberry popcorn
Camellia sinensis (tea plant)
Wisteria sinensis (Chinese wisteria)
Geraniums
Tomatoes - red rosa, tiger stripe, red cherry, golden vine, orange strawberry, emerald apple
Solanum melanocerasum (garden huckleberry)
I also have lots of more usual seeds like peas, beans, herbs etc and would happily include those too.
I have some waterblommetjie plants if anyone needs.
I am looking for heirloom tomatoes, peppers, chillies, amaranth and interesting vegetables. I also need hardy drought tolerant plants for free-state gardens.
I am looking forward to meeting some SA gardeners!
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- Green Thumb
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- gillespieza
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- gillespieza
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Hi there
I would be very interested in your clivias, purple peppers, strawberry popcorn, peppadew, tamarillo, wisteria, geraniums, any interesting tomatoes (especially cherry varieties, and canning/preserving varieties) - basically any nice interesting vegetables and herbs, and any pretty water-wise plants (including succulents but not cacti) or coast-hardy plants. I also collect unusual lavenders (especially the dwarf varieties). I live in Cape Town
I have the following I to trade (unfortunately mostly commercial varieties, not many heirlooms). - I've tried to put all the info from seed packets where they are commercial seed varieties:
HEIRLOOM:
I would be very interested in your clivias, purple peppers, strawberry popcorn, peppadew, tamarillo, wisteria, geraniums, any interesting tomatoes (especially cherry varieties, and canning/preserving varieties) - basically any nice interesting vegetables and herbs, and any pretty water-wise plants (including succulents but not cacti) or coast-hardy plants. I also collect unusual lavenders (especially the dwarf varieties). I live in Cape Town
I have the following I to trade (unfortunately mostly commercial varieties, not many heirlooms). - I've tried to put all the info from seed packets where they are commercial seed varieties:
HEIRLOOM:
- Blondkopfen cherry tomatoes (little gold grape sized cherry tomatoes) (Starke Ayres brand)
- Sweet pepper
- Butternut
- Spanspek
- Lemon drop dwarf marigold (I harvest the seeds from these every year - very pretty and vigourous little things. Later this year I will have a gold mix as well)
- Cayenne pepper (possibly cross pollinated with Jalapeno)
- Jalapeno pepper (possibly cross pollinated with Cayenne)
- Eureka lemon
- Tahiti lime
- Beetroot (Star 1105) (Starke Ayres brand)
- Borage (Margaret Roberts brand)
- Broccoli (Star 2204) (Starke Ayres brand)
- Chinese cabbage 'Granat' (Starke Ayres brand)
- Coriander (Starke Ayres brand)
- Purple Echinacea (Kirschhoff brand) - very drought-hardy
- Hale's Best melon (cantaloupe/spanspek) (Kirschhoff brand)
- Lemon basil (Margaret Roberts brand)
- Mange Tout 'Kennedy' (Kirschhoff brand)
- Spinach 'Baby Dash' (Starke Ayres brand)
- Sugar Snap Peas 'Climbing' (Starke Ayres brand)
- Sugar Snap Peas 'Sugar Charm' (Starke Ayres brand)
- Tomato 'Roma VFN' (Starke Ayres brand)
- Zucchini/Courgette/Baby Marrow hybrid 'Star 8022' (Starke Ayres brand)
- Soup celery (Starke Ayres brand)
- Chives (Margaret Roberts brand)
- Delphinium (Starke Ayres brand)
- Dill (Starke Ayres brand)
- Pak Choy (Margaret Roberts brand)
- Parsley 'Moss Curled' (Starke Ayres brand and Mayfair brand)
- Spring Onion (Starke Ayres brand)
- Swiss Chard 'Fordhook Giant' (Starke Ayres brand)
- Tomato 'Heinz 1370' (Starke Ayres brand)
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- Green Thumb
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Hi gillespieza
I'm so glad to find another South African.
My seeds have changed since then. I give a lot to my mom who has a plot in Smithfield. She will harvest though and give me back some seeds.
I will send you what I have now;
yellow cherry tomato
beefsteak tomato - I find the plant to be be slow-growing though and then the hail took them all out so I can't say how good these seeds are.
tiger stripe (correction from the zebra stripe)
pink tomato
peppadew
long red chillies
tamarillo
zebra butternut
clivia - I just went to package the seeds up and found that 4 of the 6 clivia seeds went mouldy and are not viable. I will send 2 for now but I can send you more when I harvest them (soon).
In addition I have
brinjal
Cannellini beans
Borlotti beans
rocket
(All harvested from our gardens)
I have one last Meyer lemon left and I can send you the seeds. You will need to use the seeds quickly but I got 50% germination (normal) after a week of drying. You really need to open the seed casing to expose the embryo to water. Remember you may not get fruit from a tree grown from seed. This is a sweetish, small lemon that was actually crossed with another citrus but is not available in South Africa for some reason.
Do you want waterblommetjies? I think I could send you seeds in water. Ok I'd have to also find the seeds but I'm willing to give it a try.
I would love Lemon drop dwarf marigold, Blondkopfen tomatoes, cayenne pepper, pak choy and moss curled parsley.
I'm so glad to find another South African.
My seeds have changed since then. I give a lot to my mom who has a plot in Smithfield. She will harvest though and give me back some seeds.
I will send you what I have now;
yellow cherry tomato
beefsteak tomato - I find the plant to be be slow-growing though and then the hail took them all out so I can't say how good these seeds are.
tiger stripe (correction from the zebra stripe)
pink tomato
peppadew
long red chillies
tamarillo
zebra butternut
clivia - I just went to package the seeds up and found that 4 of the 6 clivia seeds went mouldy and are not viable. I will send 2 for now but I can send you more when I harvest them (soon).
In addition I have
brinjal
Cannellini beans
Borlotti beans
rocket
(All harvested from our gardens)
I have one last Meyer lemon left and I can send you the seeds. You will need to use the seeds quickly but I got 50% germination (normal) after a week of drying. You really need to open the seed casing to expose the embryo to water. Remember you may not get fruit from a tree grown from seed. This is a sweetish, small lemon that was actually crossed with another citrus but is not available in South Africa for some reason.
Do you want waterblommetjies? I think I could send you seeds in water. Ok I'd have to also find the seeds but I'm willing to give it a try.
I would love Lemon drop dwarf marigold, Blondkopfen tomatoes, cayenne pepper, pak choy and moss curled parsley.
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- Green Thumb
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