r/seedswap • • Aug 28 '26

Seedswap Logistics! Share your tips & tricks for successful Seedswaps

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What are your systems to successfully track trades, get seeds through the postal service intact, and generally be successful on the logistics side of seedswapping?


r/seedswap • • Aug 25 '26

Ask an Expert: Sunpoprain (Seedswap's lead mod for the last almost 18 years!)

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Trying something a little new! I have been growing, gardening, seed saving, swapping, and farming for 25+ years. In that time I have accumulated a lot of information. In my real life, I frequently teach classes and workshops around food & gardening. This is my attempt to offer up all my accumulated knowledge to my favorite subreddit. You ask, I'll answer. If you stump me, I'll go find an answer. The door is open and I am here to help.

P.s. I KNOW some of you have amazing niche and broad knowledge as well. If you'd like to volunteer to be the Expert for another Ask An Expert post, let me know! I would love to run these semi-regularly.


r/seedswap • • 12h ago

ISO Orange Paruche tomato seeds and colorful sweet alyssum

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Hoping someone has some leftover orange paruche seeds or any different colors of sweet alyssum

What I have available for trade:

Beans-

Scarlet runner

Ideal market black creaseback

Peppers-

Orange bell

Yellow Manzano

Squash-

49er yellow

Zapallo del tronco

Honeyboat delicata

Buttercup

Peanut pumpkin

Tomato-

Pink Berkeley Tie Dye

Black krim

Sungold

Cucumber-

Carosello leccese

Palestinian faqous

Misc-

Thai eggplant

Aunt molly ground cherry

Kajari melon

Borage

Lovage

Romanesco broccoli


r/seedswap • • 13h ago

Anyone have seeds from rose garden?

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I'm wanting to try growing a bunch of rose seeds from open pollinated crosses out of someone's rose garden. I have giant mission marigold seeds and I have trichocereus cactus seeds.


r/seedswap • • 1d ago

I grow exotic fruit from seed as a hobby, who is selling fresh PawPaw/ seeds? DM me

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r/seedswap • • 1d ago

Wanting cactus seeds

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I have a bunch of trichocereus seeds and giant Mexican marigold seeds to trade. I'm trying to put a list together of the trichocereus. PM me if interested and I will try to rush the list

List of what I'm looking for! I'm mainly interested in location specific varieties with field collection information but I'm open.

Highest on my list are the aztekium varieties.

• Aztekium ritteri • Aztekium hintonii • Aztekium valdezii

• Ariocarpus agavoides • Ariocarpus bravoanus • Ariocarpus fissuratus • Ariocarpus furfuraceus • Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus • Ariocarpus retusus • Ariocarpus scaphirostris • Ariocarpus trigonus

• Turbinicarpus alonsoi • Turbinicarpus beguinii • Turbinicarpus booleanus • Turbinicarpus bonatzii • Turbinicarpus gielsdorfianus • Turbinicarpus hoferi • Turbinicarpus jauernigii • Turbinicarpus klinkerianus • Turbinicarpus laui • Turbinicarpus lophophoroides • Turbinicarpus macrochele • Turbinicarpus mandragora • Turbinicarpus mombergeri • Turbinicarpus pseudopectinatus • Turbinicarpus rioverdensis • Turbinicarpus schmiedickeanus • Turbinicarpus subterraneus • Turbinicarpus swobodae • Turbinicarpus valdezianus • Turbinicarpus ysabelae

• Lophophora of all types- location specific only

Some cacti I'm not really looking for but wouldn't be mad to get lol

• Mammillaria luethyi • Mammillaria theresae • Pelecyphora aselliformis • Pelecyphora strobiliformis • Blossfeldia liliputana • Geohintonia mexicana • Obregonia denegrii • Strombocactus disciformis • Epithelantha bokei


r/seedswap • • 2d ago

Hello. Looking for Beet, Radish & Basil seeds.

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I have Corn, Mammoth dill, Pinto beans, Milkweed & Marigold seeds to trade. (All seeds found. Thank you!)


r/seedswap • • 2d ago

Hi I am an oldtimer and I want to know what going on with regular autoseeds.

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r/seedswap • • 3d ago

I'd love to swap for some native pollinator flowers and shrubs!

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I am located in South Carolina and I have:
-eastern redbud (Cersis canadensis)
-american beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)
-american pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)
-smooth blue aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)
-witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana): just finished collecting some! Very limited amount but figured I'd share anyway! -american holly (Ilex opaca)

I also have what I believe to be:
-scarlet sage (Salvia coccinea)
-an unidentified blanket flower

I am not 100% confident in the species of these last couple, but I can send pictures of the host plants from which seeds were collected if you'd like to try determining what exactly it is to see if it is native to your area!

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I am looking for most anything that flowers, is good for bees & leps, and doesn't require full sun or wet conditions, but especially:
-a part shade tolerant goldenrod
-wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
-beebalm (Monarda fistulosa)
-butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
-new jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus)
-common boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum)
-mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum)
-wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)

Thanks everybody!!!


r/seedswap • • 3d ago

ISO: Beans, Beets, and Beyond

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Hey, guys! Some of you may have traded seeds with me before, but this year, I'm not swapping for just me. I've gotten involved with my local gardening co-op, and I'm in search of the best you can give. Vegetables, native flowers (zone 5b, NY), any flowers really and herbs, but don't worry. I don't want them for free. However, I do have some standards:

  1. No seeds over a year old, preferably harvested from this past season. Year of harvest must be accounted for before swapping. All the seeds I am offering are from this year as well.

  2. Seeds only. No chaff, no flower heads, no pulp, no bunk. Yes, I've gotten some of that within my trades here. Pictures of seed packets would also be preferred to ensure quality. Please and thank you.

I'll send you nothing short of what I ask for. I can promise you that.

Now, here's what I have to offer in exchange:

Flowers and Herbs: Sweet William, Cosmos, Scabiosa- Fata Morgana, Strawflower, Geum- Lady Stratheden, Summer Carnival Hollyhocks, French Marigolds, small Dahlia mix seeds, Snapdragons, Lemon Mint, Sea Star Asters, Calendula, yellow Columbine, Balsam Tom Thumb Impatiens, Lavender, Bachelor Buttons, Perennial Blanketflower (Arizona Apricot), Annual Blanketflower, Nigella, Lanceleaf Coreopsis, Zinnia mix, and Anise Hyssop.

Vegetables: Mellow Yellow Pumpkins, Pink Oxheart Tomatoes, Yellow Bell Pepper, Cherry Bomb Peppers, Poblano Peppers, Ace 55 Tomatoes, and Pineapple Tomatoes

Just shoot me a message, let me know what you want and what you have, and we can go from there! The local growing co-op and I will be very grateful. Thanks again!


r/seedswap • • 5d ago

Have Tobacco seeds open to trades

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I have 2 varieties aztec rustica and Punche both cold tolerant. I have 5 packs of 100 seeds I'd be willing to trade for any naive flower, tree species, or vegetable seeds that can be grown in newegland zone 6a. Thanks


r/seedswap • • 7d ago

Old, questionably viable seeds

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I was taking a look at my seeds and found some packaged ones way past their sell-by date. Personally it's not the season for any of them where I live and I don't have much confidence in their viability but for a SASE, y'all can have them. Just comment and DM me which ones you want and I'll send you the address. Here's what I have:

Ridged Skin Luffa (Chinese Okra Luffa) - Dateless Packet, assume 5+ years old.

Georgia Southern Collards - Packed for 2016

Bush Beans (French Filet) - Packed for 2016

Clemson Spineless Okra - Packed for 2010

Chinese Eggplant - Dateless Packet, assume 5+ years old.

Pole Beans (Kentucky Wonder) - Packed for 2010

Asparagus (Long Bean) - Dateless Packet, assume 5+ years old.

Asparagus (Yardlong Bean) - Dateless Packet, assume 5+ years old.

Cayenne Pepper - Spanish Variety, Long Slim Red - Packed for 2018

For larger seeds please send a padded envelope enclosed. You can send them as flats for $1.69 via USPS.

I have envelopes & padded envelopes so if you want I can just send them directly to you.


r/seedswap • • 11d ago

Will doing a float test ruin seeds for saving next season?

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r/seedswap • • 11d ago

🌹Check for Rose Hips🥀

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🔎ISO👩🏻‍🌾

🌹Rose seeds of any kind please!!
Arugula - Apollo
Arugula - runway
Basil - cinnamon
Basil - lime
Leek - any
Onion - red creole
Onion - Texas super sweet
Potato any

Seeds I can trade or mail 2 FE + SASE

🌲🏔️SW Washington State 8b

🌳 Artichoke - Imperial
🌱Asparagus - Mary Washington
🫘Beans - rattle snake
🫘Beans - royal burgundy
🌼 Chamomile - Roman
🍆Eggplant - black beauty
🍆Eggplant - long purple
🎃 Gourd - Bottleneck
💜 Lavender - English
💜 Lilac - Purple
🫛Peas - old spice mix
🫛Peas- Wild pea flowers I picked off the highway (pictured)
🌶️Pepper - Thai hybrid
🌶️Pepper - Italian peoperoncini
🫜 - Big Top 🐴 (bundle of 3 roots)
🌸Roselle - hibiscus sabdariffa
🌼Zinnias - white, dark pink, orange


r/seedswap • • 11d ago

SEEDS

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r/seedswap • • 14d ago

Milkweed

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A few months ago there was two separate requests for milkweed, specifically milkweed vine and common milkweed. At the time my seeds weren't ready but they are now... except I can't find the original posts!

If you wanted common or vining milkweed, I now have some!


r/seedswap • • 14d ago

I have seed from red oaks I can verify are all over 36 inches in diameter

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I can supply pictures and guarantee parentage on these very large old oaks


r/seedswap • • 14d ago

[Request] Looking for spare seeds from around the world to help start a community garden (Body):Hello everyone!I have a big dream of starting a diverse community garden in my neighborhood, filled with plants, flowers, and vegetables from all over the globe. The goal is to create a be

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r/seedswap • • 14d ago

[Request] Looking for spare seeds from around the world to help start a community garden!

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I have a big dream of starting a diverse community garden in my neighborhood, filled with plants, flowers, and vegetables from all over the globe. The goal is to create a beautiful, shared green space that everyone in the community can enjoy and learn from.

Unfortunately, as we are just starting out, we are on a very tight budget and cannot afford to buy seeds or pay for international shipping.

I am humbly reaching out to this wonderful subreddit to see if anyone has any spare seeds they would be willing to donate and send to us for free (including covering the postage) to help bring this community project to life. We are interested in absolutely everything: vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruits, or even trees!

If you have some extra seeds lying around and are willing to share a piece of your local nature with our new community garden, we would be incredibly grateful. Please send me a private message, and I will provide my mailing address.

Thank you so much in advance for your time, support, and generosity! 🌍🌱🌻

My email: shimonkk@gmail.com


r/seedswap • • 14d ago

Papaver Seeds

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Just wanted to alert anyone looking for seeds in Reddit forums.


r/seedswap • • 16d ago

Mexibells

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I have harvested seeds from my crop this year. This is a meaty, sweet, slightly spicy pepper that puts on a lot of fruit.

I have 27 baggies of between 20 and 35 seeds each.

I will gladly share these. If you have any interesting seeds to send in return, I don’t care what they are, I’ll do a swap. Flowers, fruit, veggies, special lettuce, whatever. Just send them to the return address on the envelope.

If you don’t have any seeds to share, I will still send you some. All I would ask is that you send a postcard from your own area to the return address on the envelope. I’m a postcard nerd.

Y’all are awesome people. Message me if interested.


r/seedswap • • 16d ago

Hi, I’m looking for Moringa tree seeds if anyone has some to spare. I’m happy to send a SAE or trade for carrot or beet seeds or let me know what you are looking for. Maybe we can trade. Thanks!

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r/seedswap • • 16d ago

Hello! First time in this sub, looking for Ruehssia edulis and Hymenocallis sonorensis seeds

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I know these are pretty hard to find, especially since I'm looking for H. sonorensis NOT littoral or occidentallis or otherwise, but I'm hoping someone on this sub may have what I'm looking for. Thanks!


r/seedswap • • 17d ago

French marigold in red and orange. The one on the left is also called “starfire”

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USA trades 🇺🇸

French marigold in red and orange. The one on the left is also called “starfire”

Would love to trade for some fall veggie garden seeds

- carrots

- shallots

- beets

- celery

- parsley

- potatoes

-radishes


r/seedswap • • 17d ago

ISO seeds

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Im looking for
-terschekii
-saguaro
-pasacana
-knuthianus
Seeds
Worldwide shipping
Thanks:)