NARGS SeedEx

[Lori S.]

I'm starting to wonder where mine is too... hope it's not drifting around aimlessly out there!  You are in Canada, too, aren't you, Liz?  Maybe it's just a function of the cross-border transport, somehow.

[Lis Allison]

... You are in Canada, too, aren't you, Liz?  Maybe it's just a function of the cross-border transport, somehow.

Yes, and that has me worried! You never know what new rules there are that you haven't heard about. Oh, well, patience IS a virtue, and I'll continue to work on getting some. Patience, that is. Too late for virtue.

[Middleton]

Everyday for the past week, here in central Ontario, I've excitedly checked the mailbox and nothing   Last year's order arrived February 4Th so I'm not panicking yet.
But speaking of 'wandering around', in 2009 the NARGS seed order had not arrived by mid February so I made some inquiries.  Yes, my order had been filled and sent out!  Weeks went by and I assumed it was stuck in customs or lost.  But it arrived in April!  Our rural mail delivery person came to the door with a very soggy and dirty bundle of mail.....the NARGS seed package and bills.  It had been found two concessions away, in the ditch, revealed by melting snow, near someones mailbox! Talk about being thrilled
This mail lady now receives a lovely bonus every Christmas!
Sharon

[maggiepie]

Mine haven't arrived either
Sent my order in the day the list came out but I think it takes something like 2 weeks each way for mail to get to destinations between US and Canada.
Am so hoping the online ordering starts next year.

[Lori S.]

Oh, well, patience IS a virtue, and I'll continue to work on getting some. Patience, that is. Too late for virtue.

It had been found two concessions away, in the ditch, revealed by melting snow, near someones mailbox! Talk about being thrilled

Mail delivery has been very good around here for last few years... so I'm not yet tempted to start checking the gutters and back alleys.  
(... Although some time ago, we did have a sociopathic mail carrier who would park on our boulevard (lawn at that time) or blocking our driveway - despite extremely ample parking space in this neighborhood - and preferred to bash through people's hedges rather than use the sidewalks.  Instead of using an organized mail pouch as other carriers do, she had loose mail thrown in the backseat of her car and would grab handfuls to deliver at each stop.  We'd get at least one mis-delivered piece of mail each week...  Had the mail been delivered by aerial drop, I think it would have been only slightly less accurate and much less damaging to the landscaping.  )

[Lori S.]

Am so hoping the online ordering starts next year.

That would be a great feature!

[RickR]

Our rural mail delivery person came to the door with a very soggy and dirty bundle of mail.....the NARGS seed package ... had been found two concessions away, in the ditch, revealed by melting snow...
Sharon

So, you got a head start on the cold-moist seed stratification(!)

(Sometimes, you have to look hard for a bright side.)

[Middleton]

I meant to add, regarding seed packages lost in a snowbank for weeks, that they were fine, nice & dry inside the inner plastic bubble lining!  Just the outer cover had suffered.
Yes Rick, germination of those seeds was excellent, even though they received frigid temperatures....dry. One package of Calceolaria arachnoidea from Chile did not germinate but can't surmise it was too cold for them.

Tuesday's mail had come......no seeds

[CScott]

A big THANK YOU to all the volunteers who make the Seed Exchange work.
I am delighted with the seeds which arrived yesterday when we were at minus 25ºC.
It is fun to go through the packages and look them up on line and plan how to germinate them.
Thank you to all the volunteers!
                                 Caroline

[Lori S.]

Hi, Caroline!  Great to see you here!  If you have got your seeds, I guess I should be hopeful... ?
I echo your sentiments... thanks to all the volunteers who make these seed exchanges possible!

[McGregor]

My seed turned up this morning here in the UK. Was just starting to wonder but it has arrived just as I'm getting started on the Spring issue of the Quarterly so I'll have to take some time out to sandpaper some Astragalus, and sow Castilleja and Towndsendia together in companion sowing (which I read about from Stephanie Ferguson in the Fall issue - it inspired my choices). It's such a great time of year - looking forward.

[Todd Boland]

Mine arrived a couple of weeks ago.  The first pots (those that didn't need strat) are germinated already.

[Lis Allison]

Mine arrived a couple of weeks ago.  The first pots (those that didn't need strat) are germinated already.

Yes, mine arrived about 10 days ago. But I'm ahead of you, Todd. Damping-off has already got one pot's worth, so one of mine has comed and goned already.

(Sigh).

[Lori S.]

I got my order on Feb. 8... and just realized last night while entering sowing records in a spreadsheet that I had received rather fewer packets than I anticipated because I had forgotten to add my donor number to the order... acckk!  
(Just as well- I already had more than enough seeds to play with anyway, and in addition, my order from Vojtech Holubec just arrived today. )

[Todd Boland]

I am ashamed to say I have never ordered from Vojtech...mostly he has drylanders that just won't go here anyway.  However, I am now on the seedex list for Goteburg BG...I heard they have a great list.  Have to wait until next year though as they have already sent out this years list.