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Alicia C.
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Posted: Mar 18th, 2006 01:14 am |
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| I'm Alicia Cosgrove, staff writer for the paper -- and an amateur gardener. I would like to know if anyone would be interested in starting a seed swap for vegetables, herbs and/or flower seeds. I've started a variety of seeds in anticipation of my summer garden and have some left over.
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Posted: Mar 19th, 2006 12:56 am |
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Topic relocated to MAAN per request from Alicia C.
Thanks for joining us in the forum !!
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Posted: Mar 19th, 2006 11:31 am |
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Welcome to the Forum Alicia C.!
Glad you've joined us here!
Tried to welcome you yesterday but the Leprechauns wouldn't let me. A little trouble getting my posts through!
You a pepsi fan??? I LOVE MY PEPSI!
oh yea... seed swap. Wish I had some interesting seeds to swap, but unfortunately I was born with some really brown thumbs.
Hubby and I did grow some Loofah sponges (Gourds)one year. That was great fun. Wish I knew where to get some more of those seeds.
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Alicia C.
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Posted: Mar 19th, 2006 04:18 pm |
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Thanks for the welcome, Cracker. (And thanks to Moderator Steve for putting this thread in the correct forum. I goofed and started it up under Policies <blush>.)
I'm going to do gourds this year, along with several veggies and a few flowers. I started seeds in those little Jiffy pods last week -- you know, the little flat thingies that swell up once you add water. They're so cool. (Yes, I am easily entertained!) My green beans are already 5 inches tall; the gourds are about an inch shorter. I'm not doing a big garden. We're just going to do the square foot gardening thing. I think luffas are cool, too. If I find a seed source, I'll give you a shout.
Am I a Pepsi fan? Hahahahahahaa! I think if you cut me, I'd bleed Pepsi! 
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Posted: Mar 19th, 2006 05:00 pm |
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Ya'll tell me about these loufah gourds - is it really like a loufah sponge?! 
Caffeine free, Diet Pepsi for me please! (I know I take all the fun out of it  but that's more calories to spend on chocolate Eat enough dark chocolate (YUM!!) and you can even get a little caffeine buzz  )
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Posted: Mar 19th, 2006 05:01 pm |
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Alicia C. wrote: Am I a Pepsi fan? Hahahahahahaa! I think if you cut me, I'd bleed Pepsi!
Alicia, If you ever need a transfusion, just give me a holler!
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Posted: Mar 19th, 2006 05:08 pm |
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Yep Kris! The loufa sponge gourds are so fun!
I think I bought mine at the Greek Church on Westridge during the herb festival... Isn't that in April sometime??
Hubby and I did the Jack and the Beanstalk thing... We just threw them out back along the edge of the woods and they started these vines that grew up into the trees with long zucchini like gourds growing all over them... Probably a more scientific way to grow them, but I don't know it.....
We cut them off and let them dry in our out building for a month or two. Then we peeled them and shook out the seeds and cut them up into small loufa sponges just like you see in the stores. My sister and I actually sold them in some herbal baskets that we used to make.
Those sponges were fun to grow and WAY COOL!
Can't find the seeds we shook out and saved though. Imagine that.  Last edited on Mar 19th, 2006 05:09 pm by Cracker Jax
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Alicia C.
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Posted: Mar 19th, 2006 05:14 pm |
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Kris McNeill wrote:
Ya'll tell me about these loufah gourds - is it really like a loufah sponge?!
Caffeine free, Diet Pepsi for me please! (I know I take all the fun out of it but that's more calories to spend on chocolate Eat enough dark chocolate (YUM!!) and you can even get a little caffeine buzz )
Hi Kris,
Luffa gourds are pretty easy to grow, I think. Basically, you just plant 'em, keep 'em watered and let 'em do their thing. The fibrous interior is what you're after, so you just let them dry on the vine until the stems turn brown, then harvest and let them continue to dry in a dry sheltered place. I've heard that getting the husk off can be involved, but I'm sure there's lots of advice on the net about doing that. Once you have the husk off, you shake out the seeds and cut the dried fiber to whatever shape you need. Luffa makes fabulous kitchen-type scrubbers as well as bath sponges.
Re: Diet Pepsi -- you can have it. I shall be no threat to the Diet Pepsi supply in the NW area. I can't abide the taste of diet anything.  And if it has aspartame in it, I'm gonna end up with a nasty headache and an equally nasty aftertaste. Plus -- I really need my caffeine!
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Alicia C.
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Posted: Mar 19th, 2006 05:16 pm |
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Cracker Jax wrote: Alicia C. wrote: Am I a Pepsi fan? Hahahahahahaa! I think if you cut me, I'd bleed Pepsi!
Alicia, If you ever need a transfusion, just give me a holler!
I'll keep that in mind. :-D
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Posted: Mar 19th, 2006 11:48 pm |
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WOW, thanks for the loufah/luffa info ya'll! I learn so much here - it's amazing! I'm gonna hunt for some of those seeds. I saw a miniature Banana Tree in a plant catalog that I wanted to get for the porch too - spring really gets me in the growin' mood! (I have 2 black thumbs too Cracker so I need the easy to grow stuff!) I also want a gardenia for the porch because they smell so good. Anybody know about gardenias - easy to grow? need sun? I will google.......
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Posted: Mar 19th, 2006 11:49 pm |
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| Maybe we should rename this the gardening forum???!!!
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Posted: Mar 20th, 2006 02:17 am |
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The gardening forum! I might get my husband to join if we did that! I know he talked with you yesterday, Alicia!
By the way, Alicia, welcome to forums! As you'll see, I post here sometimes too!
I too am a "brown-thumber," but my husband Scott loves plants and is always trying new things. We grow pansies (almost year-round), roses, gardenias, miniature banana trees, daffodils, all kinds of things.... in addition to a small vegetable garden and experimental area with various grapevines. My favorites are tulips, which he grows because I requested them....
Of course, my role in all this gardening is to look at them and tell him they're pretty, and help weed the garden if he can tell me exactly which ones are the weeds...
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Posted: Mar 20th, 2006 09:01 pm |
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| I tweaked the name so Vicki's husband would consider posting.........if y'all don't like it, I'll change it back, let me know. SMS
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Alicia C.
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Posted: Mar 20th, 2006 09:17 pm |
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Steve Adkins wrote: I tweaked the name so Vicki's husband would consider posting.........if y'all don't like it, I'll change it back, let me know. SMS
I'm okay with it. Vicki, tell Scott he can post here now!
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Posted: Mar 24th, 2006 11:12 am |
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OH MY GOODNESS!! I just read my last entry after seeing what Alicia had just written! I REALLY didn't mean it had to be re-named in order for Scott to participate, although I realize that's what I wrote! I MEANT I might finally get him to post SOMEWHERE now that there was this type of place, since he's so "into" plants and all! (I'd better make sure he joins in now that you've put so much into assuring that he would!)
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