Seed Swap with Catherine!
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- Last week, @dain and I got together to have a chat and do a seed swap! Exchanging seeds is a great way of saving money and experimenting with seeds you might not have bought.
Just make sure that the seeds you're swapping are in date, write the names on an envelope and when to sow them and you're good to go! You can even take photos of the front and back of the seed packets and save them in a folder on your phone.
But the main thing is to sit down and have the chats with a friend! Happy seed swapping!
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I always have random seeds spilled in the bottom of my seed box. Periodically I throw a handful in a bed that I call my “wonder garden”. I call it that because I throw the random seeds in and wonder what will grow.
I LOVE that idea! I might try that this year and knowing my luck, I’d end up with lovely flowers and random peas and courgettes coming up, but sure that’s part of the fun 😂
I did this and had leeks everywhere😂
I love this idea!!
@@Lovelygirliebits The mix of veg and flowers can be quite lovely.
@@mwillis7791 That sounds like a good thing to me. I love leeks!
My jaws hurt from laughing, I have a seed problem too. Seed sisters 💜
I’m glad we gave you a laugh!!
“fuc! fuc!..” tea spewed,tears running,slipping off chair…..you ladies are my kinda gardeners 🤣🤣🤣 💜Heather
😂😂😂 thanks for watching!
This was so much fun. I understand wanting and praying for a simpler life. I hope someday you both are blessed with that dream. God bless and keep you.
That's exactly it! A simpler life full of things that make us happy x
Thanks for helping me Karen! And for the seeds ☺️
More than happy to help and fill your box 😂😂😂
I let my pumpkins rot and compost themselves each year and then I get surprised pumpkins. LOL. I enjoy you both. I don't have any garden ladies to giggle with so I live vicariously through you.
The gardening community is the best!
Don’t feel too badly about your number of seeds… I’ve got tons too because I buy them and also collect them from foods! 🤣
That's a great idea!
Sometimes I enjoy my hobby supplies more than my hobby!
Me too 😂
Karen’s box is beautiful. Needs categories.
I have almost no seeds, so you both look like champion gardeners in my book! Also, if I were rich I’d have a huge greenhouse with work tables and have an attached library with a fireplace to read books and host meetings about crochet, sewing and gardening….. ahhh the dream…..😊
That sounds magical!
I now realize I'm with Karen in the "not well" department! 😂 I need me a SEED BOX like that so my stash can be more organized!
I think the bigger the seed box the more likely we’re going to buy more seeds 😂
I love that seed box. Please tell where you got it😊
Hello from California!🌞 I just found you and Catherine over the weekend and have been enjoying your channels! You ladies got me so inspired, I spent yesterday writing out my garden goal while watching your chity chats, lol!😊
Quick tidbit of info: our seeds do not expire. The seed companies are required to only sell new seeds for the calender year, and that is why there is a date on the seed package. Seeds want to grow!🌱 The thing is, the older a seed is, it has a lower germination rate.
Just like you were talking about in this video, just sow extra seeds to give yourself a better chance at germination.
People have come across seeds in old envelopes from decades gone by, stuck them in soil and they got plants! 🌿 I hope that was helpful!
Im gonna move on to your next video now! Enjoy your day!!❤
😂Catherine has a seed box, you have a seed trunk 😂❤ no judgements. Gardeners don’t judge each other. 😊👍
You’re so right 😂😂😂😂 I’ll need one on wheels next year!
Please take us to Pete's vintage place with you. We want to see what he has too.Thank you for sharing. Canadians love you both.
I love your gardening videos. I do want you to enjoy your gardening and not be constantly thinking about what to put on your videos. What I enjoy about the videos is seeing how excited you both are for all the aspects of your gardens.
We're easily excited and that's the best!
Maybe in place of some of the chit chats yall can takes turns helping in each others gardens. Maybe every other month.
That's a great idea!
Oh I so needed this 😂 thank you for your endless exuberance and giggles☺️planning to start some seeds by the end of January. My growing season won't be till the snow is gone 😫 but not going to let that dampen my excitement!
I wish the garden centres in my area of Quebec had coffee shops attached to them like you do in the UK. I feel like they're missing out on something.
One of my kitties was having the zoomies this morning and she stopped when I started your video. She was watching you intently as you went through the seed packets😻Syd usually only stops to watch when there's a fish keeping video on 🤣
Have a lovely week Karen and Catherine
p.s. I think my seed box is bigger than Karen's 😱😱😱
I love that your seed box is bigger than mine! And as for garden centres with coffee shops, they're definitely missing out in Quebec! I think that's what keeps our garden centres going over the colder months!
Bit hard to tell what your plant in the pot is without seeing the leaf close up but it could be a cucumber.
I finally have a simple life. I love it. I get to spend my days art journaling, going on walks and working in my garden. I love it. It’s not for everyone though. I have one friend that would go insane without all her adventures. She’s only actually home part of the year. Retirement has been good for me.
That sounds like a beautiful life! Catherine and I often joke that we live the retirement life sometimes!
I did a bee keeping course a few years ago, it was very interesting. In the end I decided it wasn’t for me, it was more involved than I thought & there was nowhere near that could set up a hive or two. I didn’t want to risk setting one up in my garden for two reasons, possible neighbour problems & the fact that you don’t know if your neighbours are using pesticides.
Also if you want more garden space & a workshop, try to move heaven & earth to get it while you are young, time passes fast, you’d only need about a third or a half an acre garden to achieve it.
That's so interesting!
Ladies, yes I have so many seeds! Mostly veggie seeds that all stare back at me from the box, lol! Enjoy watching you both❤. Your my RUclips sistahs! Happy planting from Hawaii!🪴🌴
I'm with you Karen. Taking more time to appreciate the little details that make each beautiful flower💚🌱
Yes! Thank you!
My seeds are all over in different places of my house, in coffee cans, drawers, I bet if I clean out a few cabinets I will find seeds lol 🤣🤣
What a nice surprise!!
Loved this lovely long chat, thank you for keeping me company. I’ve seed box envy now😄
Now I just need to find room to plant all the seeds!
I love both of your vlog but I have noticed that Catherine does talk over you a lot when you are talking.
We both do that and it's because we're so excited in our chats! Neither of us mind it!
Always love the girlfriend chat
Thanks for watching!
I just found three packets of seeds in a drawer today so yes I know what you mean
That's the best surprise!
Question: do you have pests, squirrels in Ireland? I bought 2 new dianthus on clearance. Each put in a pot, one left, one with “ chicken wire” surrounding it. 12 hours later I had to dig out the soil again to refill the pot. Now both are protected, phew.
I love my Holly trees. We have a lot on our land….both female and male. I did a beautiful arrangement last Christmas, well 2022. I believe the berries are possibly poisonous to dogs and cats. But fact check this. I may be wrong.
“You’re not well, you’re not well!” I guess I’m not either lol I love your seed box Karen! It makes me happy 😊 I only have a little wooden crate but I filled it up. You have given me hope in planting seed. Don’t you just love the pretty packs some come in???
Love that “ seed sisters “. Thankfully our local libraries have seeds too (& I have a family in). I donate all my excess sweet peas, money plants, marigolds and veg I can go to seed. If you dead head you can have so many.
I watched the whole thing again last night ... I haven't laughed that much since Catherine dressed up like Bob Ross! You were talking about how often to film your chats, that every month was too frequent ... maybe you could do a seasonal chat every 3 months - winter, spring, summer, autumn ... and talk about what's going on in the garden during that season?
Gosh yay. Just sown basil, growing on the window sill. I made miniature envelopes 1 inch square for my seeds to reduce space so I could fit them in a small Perspex container I had. Brings out our inner-librarian, fun to do, and practical, hard for mice to raid.
Yes, keep a hobby that's doesn't become work. When I retired several years back, my husband suggested I get a job at the garden center. I told him that that would take all the fun out of gardening. I think you are rich Catherine. Just Maybe not with money,❤
Just planted by sweet peas. I think those curly seeds maybe french marigolds (tagettes)
Thanks for making me giggle girlies
I'm as bad as Karen or maybe worse. I have six full seed boxes and last year I hardly bought any!! It's truly an addiction. Time to have a good sort out. Love the videos with you two, you make me laugh xx
you could open your own seed shop at this stage! Love it!
I’ve sown seeds that are 5 years old. The seed companies have to put seed dates on the packets to sale their products. Seeds can be good for up to six years and longer.
Ah this is great to know! But also stops my excuse for buying more seeds!!
I am a seed hoarder. I put mine in freezer in the off season in freezer bag
Karen’s box did not surprise me. I remember watching all the videos where she showed seeds she had brought.
And yet I keep buying more!
I got my box of seeds out with you girls and wrote down everything i have so i stop buying multiples. I too have a huge box that just keeps growing and I live in an apartment and can only container garden. It is my happiness. Love your seed swap ideas. Cant wait to see everything popping up. 🌻🌹🏵
Happy New Year my love. Iv enjoyed watching your seed swaps. When I was younger I worked for Sutton Seeds and loved it. I worked in the office but I did overtime in the seed packing department . That was watching and putting seeds into packets machinery. You can still use out of date seeds. Catch you next time xx
That’s good to get clarification on the out of date seeds, thank you!
Yes I have a Karen seed box but my husband went wild with the seed catalog pictures. He bought seeds that can't grow in a dry arid climate like Texas and in packages of 100 tomato seeds or 100 cauliflower seeds. My nursery owner wants to buy organic seed from me. ha ha Then he "ordered" 11 tomato plants. All indeterminate and patio or grape varieties. That 3x6 bed was a jungle of vines so yes I laughed when I saw Karen's box. You two are so much fun. Thanks for the video. If you two were rich: Catherine you would have a flow bee hive and David Beckham would be your bee keeper. Karen would have full time staff just to weed the garden. Take care you two and stay warm.
Your husband sounds like me! Buying stuff because he likes the look of them!
yes@@Lovelygirliebits
Really enjoyed the Seed Sisters chat today! The cat cameos were fun too. I usually grow vegetables at the back of the house with perennials in beds along the side and front. After watching you two last year I started flower seeds in pots and stuck them along the sidewalk to the house. Thanks for the inspiration. Laurie
That sounds beautiful!
its a fava bean.
I was going to watch for 5 mins and come back later. An hour later--- lol. - Frances
Dainty- we alllll know Karen has a seed purchasing problem😂
I'm keeping the seed industry in business!
Really loved this and got my imagination flowing, cant wait to start making a garden now! 🌿🌼 xx
So glad we gave you some inspo!
I love seeing you girls together. I have a pot addiction. I buy containers because they are cute and then I have to find something to put in them. 😅😂
I think this will be me this year because I want to really focus on the container garden on the patio 🥰
Hi seed sisters !!! Lol
Seed sisters unite!
OMG, Karen, you have a healthy love of seeds! 🤣I love how you both get the giggles. You have me laughing with you the whole time. My face hurts! Doing your hobbies to earn income is fantastic because you do what you love. Remember that a typical work week is about 40 hours, so you do not have to be working every minute of the day. Keep track of your hours.
It's so easy for us to just keep working away, especially when doing something you love and before you know it, it's bed time! But we definitely need more balance xx
Enjoyed this video very much. Live you... seed sisters😂😂❤❤❤
So happy I'm not alone with the seed buying 😅
You and me both!!
Lovely friendship, helping eachother 🫶. I feel like a coffee now 🤣
You two are fabulous ❤😊 JULIEANN xxx
4:12 - 4:30 Best bit ever. I may have watched it five times before moving on. 😂😂
Love these videos 😊 just pottering about listening until an interesting seed comes up I need to see 😂
Thank you for this video!!! Always so good to see you chatting! Also you prompted me to look at my seed box 😂
Thank you for watching! If you have any seeds you think I should buy, let me know 😂
@😂😂Lovelygirliebits
You are both the loveliest flowers in Ireland! Don’t hesitate to show us the front of the seed packet-makes us drool even more. You are both incredibly inspiring💕🌷💕!
Thank you! Will do!
You girls, when you get together and start giggling you set me off, by the time the video ends I've got tears running down my face 🤣🤣🤣 I'm always cheered up after watching you, you should be on prescription 😂😂😂 keep up the good work 😘
I'm so glad we gave you a laugh!
I really enjoy watching your video's, both together and separately, thanks so much for sharing!! My only one little criticism Catherine, and I'm not sure you're aware you do it, but you talk over Karen a lot and often when she's in the middle of a conversation you'll interrupt and talk about something else. Hope I haven't offended, just wanted to bring it to your attention. Looking forward to future videos.
We both do it and neither of us mind that we do it! We’re passionate and excited about what we chat about, so it’s all good for us x
Just what I needed this afternoon. You bring me so much joy x could you use that app to tell you what the plant is x
We tried the app but weren’t sure about the results!
@@Lovelygirliebits thats a bummer . Its going to be interesting to see what it grows into . I just sat a looked at my seedlings . Its so hot here at the moment everything is dying
Actually I have 2 that are slightly bigger than Karen's 😢 but I haven't got to garden for a few years because my health went flew. I use to grown and sell plants and I hope to do it again. I grew annuals, perennial, and biannual, culinary and medicinal herbs, flowers, fruits, and vegetables. I love watching you two together!!!
I hope you feel well enough to garden soon xxx Take care x
Omgggg im sooooo happy ive found both your channels xxx💐💐💐💐💐💐💐
Yay! Thank you!
what a giggle you girls lift my day good idea to share the seeds and plans of action for the coming year nothing better than sharing what you love. Your plant looks like a runner bean but i may be wrong I'm not a gardener
Thanks for sharing girls
Thank you for watching!
This made me smile so much! Thank you for sharing ❤
I had so many seeds, I went to Dollar Tree and bought little containers to consolidate all the packages that were alike. I have an illness, ha. Im afraid I have to buy multiple bags incase they dont come up. Have fun. 🌲🌺🌲
I love the sound of those containers!
I’m a single income household too. So I understand that feeling.
Locally grown and harvested honey will help with allergies if u have any. Add to tea or toast daily. It helps me a ton with mine! It also helps cats and dogs with their skin allergies or other allergies as well. Our vet has us give our three dogs (see profile pic) a tsp of locally harvested honey in their breakfasts daily. Our dogs r quite large tho so I wouldn’t give a cat or small dog a tsp - more like 1/8-1/4 tsp in their food daily. It’s important that it’s locally harvested tho bc the bees r pollinating the local flowers in ur area. We get ours from a local health food store that stocks the honey from a local bee keeper.
I must google to see if we have local honey here!
Great video! I’m pleased to see its not just me who buys more seeds than I have room for. I’d love to grow the colourful carrots but I don’t have space. They look great! Was it zinnea that Catherine said don’t like to be disturbed? I didn’t make a note and now I can’t find it without watching the whole video.
yes it was Zinnias that don't like to be disturbed xxx
This video gave me life. I was painting watching listening and full on laughing during Latin names reading 😂 can't wait for garden season ❤
Roll on spring!!
Love your chats and could watch you all the time, but I know you need time to enjoy yourselves and not feel pressured to do them. I have lots and lots of seeds as well -- it's hard to control the urge to buy especially when you grow veg and flowers. Wish I could join the seed swap cause I could help fill up Catherine's box.
Thank you so much xxx
Info: Jamie Oliver has Flow hives.
You two are the best! I have many seeds as well - may I come over? I bring coffee and cake. 😅Tomatoes in pots are great, that´s what I always do. So I can shelter them from rain.
The more the merrier!
Love both of you together. Your friendship is so beautiful. Having something that’s just for you is important to your mental health.
Thank you so much xxx
I get what you are saying girls, but in my opinion, you are rich. House without needing a man. Great achievement, but I get that rich means endless money without having to work every day for it,. I'm an artist and I couldn't make money during corona. But now I am starting anew. Love you both!
I love that you're starting anew! Best of luck with that xxx
I've come over from dainty diaries... So worth it - thank you ❤ new subscriber here!
Thanks for subbing!
Many years ago when I was at the beach, there were millions of little foil packets washed up on the tideline. I took several packets home and planted them, hoping for some lovely assorted flowers. Not a flower to be had….all were beetroot! 😆😆
Hahaha I hope you managed to cook with them! I've never grown beetroot actually. Maybe I need to try!
😮 This just popped up in my feed. 3 days after posting. I have notifications on. Grr YT.
So annoying! But glad you were able to watch!
I agree that some times using your hobby for income makes it not as fun. I currently use my sewing hobby to make things for charity. It gives me a chance to make things I would not use myself. Hope your winter is going well. Mine has me quilting in a sunny spot and sewing bright colored items.
That sounds so lovely! Happy quilting!
I think a seed buying excursion should be planned. Catherine needs more seeds : D. This is so fun, I need a seed sister! I need to plant all my seeds that fall to the bottom of my seed box too. Don't underestimate your knowledge Karen, you have shared so much!
I totally agree re a seed buying excursion!
I hope you gals continue your chats together about nothing...its is quite fun listening, I look forward to them
It's what we do best! Thank you for watching!
Everything you love ,you turn into a job...because you are so damn good with it and you allow us to live out some dreams through what you do and for that we will be eternally grateful ❤
Aw that comment has just made my day, thank you so much!
Your right with new Zealand and the lupins in new Zealand. Grew up with a story about my great aunt in New Zealand and this flower taking over
It’s so interesting, isn’t it!
Karen I think my aunt was n bother with the neighbors 🤗🙈
I loved this video I wish I could of been sitting with you both having a giggle, so natural keep it up girlies xx
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hahaha, I had to laugh, I've got 5 seed boxes that size.. hi my name is Ingrid and I may have a seed addiction..
Ingrid, we are seed friends 🤣🤣🤣
You two make me laugh so much love your chats.
I don't think I've seen that many seeds outside of a garden centre lol.xxx
Seed Sister's Garden Centre, coming soon! hahah
🥳Yay! The chats are back!
Woo hoo!
I needed a good laugh! Thank you! Just a thought, maybe you two could get together once at the start of a new season and go over plans for that season and if there’s any other adventures to be had? Thank you again for your time! jd
That's a great idea!
Hello my first time here. Glad I came. You two had me in stitches 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks so much for watching!
Well you guys made my day, it's so much fun watching the two of you
Thank you for watching!
you girls crack me up lol
karen my seed boxes yes boxes are just like yours don't get me started on tomatoes can't wait for your next vlog i have banned myself from buying any more this year apart from my onion set and seed potatoes 🤞😉
I love growing tomatoes so much! What’s your favourite one to grow?
black russian it is a large tomato soooo tasty 😋@@Lovelygirliebits
If i were rich i would buy a cricut machine and then gonna buy each and every type of seed at our garden centre😂
That's what I'm talking about!
❤I Wish you ladies were my neighbors you are a lot more fun than mine who frown at me and my garden and cats I have a lot of seeds too 😊
We're lucky to have someone who loves all the chats!
I always LMAO when I'm "hanging out" with you two! 😂
Glad to hear it !!
Do you plant Irish bells?
I love them but have not been able to grown them.
I've never heard of them! I must go and look them up xxx
Organizing by month is exactly what indid for this year. It doesn't feel so overwhelming. I've started my wintersowing and if I dint see any activity by mid February I will sow the seeds again. I think that will also help me narrow down exactly when I can start. Mid March for me is always the time I can guarantee start seed sowing but now that I have a cloch maybe I can start sooner!!! The gardening itch has already started for the year!!!
Ooh maybe I need cloches! Any excuse to buy more bits for the garden!
I don't have a greenhouse so I'm using that instead. I will hopefully get to use it to try and overwinter spinach. We will see how that goes.
I had great tomato harvest from my 4 plants on my balcony, but because it was such drich summer last year it took till August for them to start ripening, and some had rather tough skin. Will grow tomatoes again and some peas, and my strawberries hopefully will survive the cold weather 🤞🫶
My tomatoes took ages to ripen too last year, wasn't a good year for me
@Lovelygirliebits tomatoes really love the sun, during the sunny weather I was picking almost a punnet a day of fresh tomatoes 🍅
Hi , I love your friendship ❤🎉❤🎉beautiful video 😂❤
Thank you for tuning in!
I’ve signed up to for a bee keepers course I’ve been looking at the flow hives too , I can’t wait 😊
Keep us posted on how you get on with it!
OH how I love you two! I’m getting such a kick ❤
Glad we gave you a laugh!
The cat is getting so big