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PLANT SWAP INFORMATION
It is a friendly gathering of people who love gardening. They bring plant starts, seedlings, seeds, or cuttings and other garden-related items to share with other fellow gardeners. No money is exchanged for anything. It all started on the Gardenweb.com forums when fellow gardeners suggested getting together and sharing their plants with other gardeners. All plant starts, seeds, seedlings, and cuttings and garden-related items are traded, however, we will have a designated table for free plants for your taking. Please ask swappers about any plant you are interested in on their table, and do not take without asking. You will find all gardeners will be happy to share with you what they have and are VERY generous giving away their plants. You will probably find several Master Gardeners there as well.
If this is your very first plant swap, just come and see what it is all about. Please be sure to tell everyone there
that this is your first plant swap or that you are a newbie to gardening. You will see how nice everyone is and
how they will make you feel right at home. If you feel you don’t want to come
empty handed, follow these guidelines below…
Bring anything that you think someone would want. Dig up rooted plants the morning of the plant swap. Put them immediately in moist soil in old coffee cans, plastic pots, styrofoam cups or even plastic bags with moist soil over the roots. Take cuttings the morning of the swap and immediately put them in water. Make sure the cuttings have at least two nodes on them. Make a note of which end is the stem end (end closest to the mother plant). If you bring bulbs, corms, rhizomes, etc., make sure they are dried and cleaned of most garden soil. If you can’t – no biggie! Just put them in paper bags so they are easier to handle. Seeds should be packaged in labeled envelopes. It would be helpful if you can include other information about the plant or flower on the envelope, such as – sun-loving, shade plant, purple blooms, blooms from March until frost, drought tolerant, etc. When marking your plants, you can use permanent ink on popsicle sticks, cut pieces of old blinds (we do not recommend cutting up your blinds on your windows!), plastic knives, forks or spoons and anything else you can be creative with!
Anything
garden related:
Whatever you have to trade as long as it's garden related ~ sculpture,
crafts, books, etc. ~ Again, nothing is to have a price tag on it. TRADE or GIVE AWAY ONLY.
Events:
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Great door prizes! |
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Free picnic lunch! |
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Silent auction for awesome garden items! |
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A 50/50 drawing. Split the pot with the swap! |
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Master Gardeners to help answer your gardening questions! |
Food: Please go to www.Gardenweb.com; click on Garden Forums then Texas Gardening and click on Exchanges and look for the Galveston County Plant Swap thread for a list of food items to bring for our picnic or click on the link in this website Picnic List to view the list and to contact our organizer to let her know what you would like to bring.
Other
Things To Bring:
| Gardening
Buddies and Spouses
~ If ya' got 'em,
bring 'em! And tell them to bring stuff to swap, too, so they can join in
the fun. The more, the better!
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Some
Things Not To Bring:
| Small
Children and Pets…some
plants are poisonous and sharp and we do not want children and pets getting
hurt. If you must bring them, please watch them at all times. Dogs must be
on leashes. There is a playground nearby in the park for the kids. |
| Beer…the
park has an ordinance prohibiting alcohol and we prefer to keep our plant
swap alcohol-free. |
For
more information on the Plant Swap contact Mary Ellen at MEB53@Houston.rr.com
or
Margie at MJenke@Verizon.net or go to www.Gardenweb.com
click on Forums and
then Texas Gardening (Exchanges)