Seed Exchange

I have these seeds on offer, that I've been saving all winter long, from seeds that I saved the year before and they are special. When I was first gifted a wonderful, giant version of a butternut squash, we called it Luc's Pumpkin. The kids loved it, and thankfully, the seed had pollinated true to type and last summer we got a magic, 40 pumpkin crop from that one pumpkin. As near as I can tell it's a Tahitian Squash but could be a Canada Crookneck Squash or a Pennsylvania Dutch Crookneck-this is from scratching through images online. What I do know is that it is dense, beautiful, sweet and keeps very well. And there's nothing like it that I can find in the NZ Seed catalogues.

I love saving and sharing seeds. And since seed saving and heritage seeds are by nature old-fashioned, I think an old-fashioned distribution is what we need.

I have about 40 packets of Tahitian Squash, those self-addressed stamped envelopes received by November 15th will get one. Let's get them in the ground this season!

Tahitian Squash Seeds- Sent on November 20, 2017- Community Seed Exchange is a Go!

It was great fun going to the Post to collect your envelopes. See what I got for one day's haul. A big thank you to everyone who participated in our seed exchange. I had my 40 seed packets ready to go. It is a lovely tradition to think of seeds being dispersed over NZ with these amazing orange fleshed squash. They should be nestled in dirt with a little moist top now.

Be patient and let them do their thing, Bex