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Wouldn’t mind an extra pack of chillies please, if you’ve got some going spare.
And thanks from me too got organising all this.

Sadly I'll not be taking part until there is more clarity about the rules for sending seeds between the UK and EU.
Have fun everyone - looking forward to seeing your results

I'm interested in swapping seeds please. I have mainly cottage garden flowers.

I should have:

Coreopsis 
Salvia seascape
Verbena
Evergreen dark pink antirrhinum
Large banana colour flowering

Vanilla wisely nemesia
Hyssops
White Astrantia
Dark pink Astrantia
Clary sage
Orange cosmos
Madame butterfly antirrhinum
Lemonade cosmos 
Apricot lemonade cosmos
white & pink stripe cosmos
Nasturtium Orchid flame
Hollyhock dark crimson 
Variegated leaf nasturtium 

I am pretty sure i will have some other seeds and salvia's sees as I grow a fair few of these, but managing to catch the seeds before they drop is a challenge

Hi Clare, we'll be running another seed swap later this year and you'd be very welcome to join us.
I'm just closing the current one, once the last package arrives (tomorrow I hope) so, unless your seeds are packed up and ready to post, you're too late, sorry.
Save your seeds throughout the year and we'll have a mega swap in the autumn.

Nice list Clare   . 
Keep them for the next one. I’d like to grow lot of those. I’m now off to google most of them   .

(05-01-2021, 12:36 PM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: [ -> ]Sadly I'll not be taking part until there is more clarity about the rules for sending seeds between the UK and EU.
Have fun everyone - looking forward to seeing your results

I went to the post office the other day and asked about it. He said as far as he was aware - at the moment we could still send seeds out and maybe it would change in 3 months time?
I really would like to know how it is going to work.

Real Seeds posted this today :-
We've had a fair number of customers in Northern Ireland asking why we aren't shipping there right now. We just wanted to make it clear that this is not our choice in any way, but is a result of the Brexit deal.
Right now, no exports of vegetable seed are allowed at all, either to the EU, or to Northern Ireland. This will change once 'equivalence' of regulations is agreed, hopefully fairly soon.
But, even once this happens, because there is free movement of plant & seed material throughout the island of Ireland it means that all the plant health border requirements have now moved effectively to the middle of the Irish sea.
As a result even when it is theoretically allowed we would have to provide a phytosanitary certificate with each order which is just not viable for retail orders.
Hopefully at some point this may change, but it is unlikely to be different in the near future - it’s a problem for the seed and seed potato industry as a whole.
There's more info on the DEFRA website

(05-01-2021, 10:56 PM)Scarlet Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-01-2021, 12:36 PM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: [ -> ]Sadly I'll not be taking part until there is more clarity about the rules for sending seeds between the UK and EU.
Have fun everyone - looking forward to seeing your results

I went to the post office the other day and asked about it. He said as far as he was aware - at the moment we could still send seeds out and maybe it would change in 3 months time?
I really would like to know how it is going to work.

I've had an email from one UK seed company citing the cost of the phytosanitary certification required by non EU companies to supply into the single market at 125€ a variety which is clearly unprofitable. I have brought in small quantities from the USA for personal use in the past, so hopefully seed swapping will be able to continue.
It is going to take many months for all the regulations to be sorted ☹

(02-01-2021, 03:05 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]Just to get you all excited, I've been counting the seeds that I've received so far - seed packets, not individual seeds!!
Haven't received Scarlet's yet but there are 49 to date. If you subtract however many you sent in, you'll have an idea how many you'll receive back - more than 40.

The suspense is building...............not long now.

The  GOOD news is............Scarlet's seeds have arrived.  That's another 20+ packets for everyone,

Provided I don't run out of sellotape, I'll aim to post them back to you all on Monday.
I'm sure you'll all be delighted with your collection.
Thanks for playing. 

Yeah something to look forward to. I’m very excited.
Thanks for being chief seed collector, seed shuffler & seed distributor, veggie. It’s very much appreciated.