Bean, pea, legume (& tomato) swap

[PhilaGardener]

Great list, @happydog !

[Aerial]

Mmm..mm... delicious lists!

I've dedicated a plot for the wonderful bush, poles, limas, cowpeas, edamames and peas..

[spacetogrow]

I won't be able to get my package into the mail until the day after tomorrow. Is that too late?

If not, I'd love some Doyce Chambers, and some Violet's Multicolored Butterbean.

[happydog]

Originally Posted by PhilaGardener

Great list, @happydog !

Thanks. The wonderful thing is that the majority of the beans I'm sending in were grown out from beans I received in last year's swap. Gary does an AMAZING job.

[spacetogrow]

OK, I'm finally getting mine packaged up for tomorrow's mail.

Beans, Common - 1 pack of each
-Black Mandan
-Black Turtle
-Black Valentine
-Blue Shackamaxon
-Bobis d'Albenga
-Bountiful
-Cherokee Trail of Tears
-Cline's Potato Patch
-Concador
-Early Contender
-Dragon's Tongue
-Flamingo
-Gourmet Green
-Jacob's Cattle
-Kenearly Yellow Eye
-Landreth Stringless
-Magpie
-Mayacoba
-Nickel
-Painted Pony
-Parshall
-Pencil Pod Golden Wax
-Provider
-Rattlesnake
-Red Peanut aka Pink Half-Runner
-Rolande French Filet
-Royal Burgundy
-Scharenchich - "no-name" Bosnian shelly, named by a fellow Minnesotan for the area it came from, I think.
-State Half-Runner
-Swedish Brown
-Tavera
-Top Crop
-Triomphe de Farcy

Bean, Cowpea - 1 pack
-Red Chinese Noodle

Bean, Lima - 1 pack of each
-Florida Speckled
-Hopi Pole
-Jackson Wonder

Bean, Soy/Edamame
7 Sayamusume

Pea - 1 pack of each
-Alaska aka Earliest of All
-Dwarf White Sugar

Bonuses: 1 pack of Pineapple Tomato and 1 each of Peppers - Bulgarian Carrot, Chinese 5 Color, Georgia Flame, Inca Red Drop & Purira.

[PhilaGardener]

Originally Posted by happydog

Thanks. The wonderful thing is that the majority of the beans I'm sending in were grown out from beans I received in last year's swap. Gary does an AMAZING job.

True enough! All of the varieties I sent in this year were grow outs from last year's swap. Great fun! Thanks again to Gary and everyone who is participating!

[sweetgapeach]

Gary-my box is on its way, expected delivery day saturday, jan.16.

[SummerSky]

Due to weather/sick kid, I haven't been able to get my box out yet. I'm going swing by the post office today. I'm sending it USPS Priority, so hopefully it'll get to you soon!

[happydog]

I learned something interesting at the post office today. I was mailing off my seeds for the swap. I had too many seeds to fit in their ridiculously small flat rate box, so I had packed them in a larger box. Well, it weighed nearly 3 pounds and was going to cost me $9 to mail it in for the swap.

I have a rural post office, in the back of the store past the potato chip aisle, and there was nobody in there but me and the postmistress, so we spent some time talking about beans and figuring out the cheapest way to mail my box. Finally she pulls out a flat rate padded envelope and says, "let's see if they fit in here." Then she shoved the whole box into the envelope, slick as you please, and voila, it only cost $6 instead of $9.

So file that info away for future use. A flat rate padded envelope costs the same to mail as the small flat rate box, but holds a lot more. I'd guess it holds about 50% more.

[sdambr]

Originally Posted by happydog

I learned something interesting at the post office today. I was mailing off my seeds for the swap. I had too many seeds to fit in their ridiculously small flat rate box, so I had packed them in a larger box. Well, it weighed nearly 3 pounds and was going to cost me $9 to mail it in for the swap.

I have a rural post office, in the back of the store past the potato chip aisle, and there was nobody in there but me and the postmistress, so we spent some time talking about beans and figuring out the cheapest way to mail my box. Finally she pulls out a flat rate padded envelope and says, "let's see if they fit in here." Then she shoved the whole box into the envelope, slick as you please, and voila, it only cost $6 instead of $9.

So file that info away for future use. A flat rate padded envelope costs the same to mail as the small flat rate box, but holds a lot more. I'd guess it holds about 50% more.

They don't usually have these padded envelopes at the post office, but you can go to usps.com and order them online. They are free and shipped free to your home.

[PhilaGardener]

It all is based on weight. Once or twice our postal clerk has weighed my flat rate boxes in hopes of telling me it would have been cheaper to go with an envelope, and vice versa, but each time I seem to win.

[imp]

We used to ship out a lot of stuff when we sold online, and I've ordered a lot of the priority boxes and envelopes, once orcering a whole ( combined items) pallete's worth. The local PO was always out of some sizes, so they talked Rob out of almost half my order!!!

Priority can be a good way to go for cost and weight.

[walt456]

You should check to see if the regional rate boxes are available for the zip code you are shipping to. You can mail up to 15 pounds in the A1 10x7x5 box for about $5. Also note if you are ordering boxes from USPS.com they usually come in packs of ten. As a postal worker I've had many customers shocked when they received 200 boxes instead of the 20 they wanted.

[joseph]

I sent my seeds into the swap in a flat-rate non-padded envelope for $6. Because it held more than the small flat-rate box.

[joseph]

Here's a couple more photos:

Spotted and plain sub-populations of my landrace beans:


Great Hutterite. Those are kidney beans for comparison.