Veggie
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Its all looking promising for some swapping later this year.
Tomatoes, peas and CFB. DFBs are easy.
Most flowers are too. If you don't know the exact variety name, don't worry. We'll settle for blue lupin, white campanula etc.
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
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Mamzie
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I hope to save seed from my tomatoes this year. Also only growing Alderman peas, so intend saving them for us, and if all goes well, may be able to share x
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doublyjonah
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I'd like to join, please. I have some beans, peas, and tomatoes that I'll try to save seed from this year. Can also do some flowers, though I seem to have worse luck saving from flowers.
Also happy for a commercial extras swap.
I'm feeling optimistic about my ability to organize this year...
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I'm growing OP toms & Peppers, so hopefully some of those will do the business, but everything seems slow this year.
Also peas and various climbing beans so we'll see....
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Me too,
I’ll have my great grandads runner beans, tomatoes, cuore di bue, San Marzano, sun gold and sunblush. Leeks I’ve left some of last years go to seed so should have plenty. Potato international kidney, raspberry canes golden autumn variety name escapes me at the moment.
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I’ll have a go at some toms. However, trying to remember what variety they are could be a challenge. All of mine are out door bush types that will probably end up with names like orange cherry or yellow plum.
Hey ho
Oh and I’ve got a very compact squash that has lovely large grapefruit sized fruit. Is stripy aquas OK for a name?
I’ve already liberated some seed heads from beautiful pale mauve poppies.
Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.
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Veggie
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Did you grow the toms from seed, Neffa, or are they bought ones?
Same question with the squash?
If they're bought they may be F1 which don't, as a rule, grow true from saved seeds.
The Poppies should be good to swap though. 
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Veggie
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Just a little reminder to think about saving seeds for the 2020 Seed Swap at the end of the year.
I've started with Rambling Red Tomatoes - scraping the pulp out into a dish before I eat the tomato!! Win, win.
If you know your tomato variety name and its not F1, start scraping before you eat. 
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I will have some Gigantes beans to throw in the mix.
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I've saved foxglove seeds today
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