Plant Exchange - Free Plants

ukbill69

Hello and this year has gone really mad, I have exchanged plants with all sorts of people and now got nearly every plant you can think, in pots in the garden. I suggest you talk about and you will sure find people willing to swap or even give you plants they have grown for free.

Give it a try telling people you are giving it ago with doing your own plants wont hurt.

dogstarheaven

well, it is very normal for a lot of ppl who sow from seed that they'd have lots of surplus ones that they don't want. i end up still pricking them out and put them in cell modular trays and gift them to schools, freegle, and plant swap events (that are part of gardening/eco events that are becoming popular in most towns and cities now). also, i have lots of self-sown seedlings that i gather up from my garden such as borage that i pot up as well. only the other day, i swapped a massive rhubarb crown for some tomato plants that i got spare (i had 10 to give away and one is left over!). this was done thru' freegle (like freecycle)...

Init_sister

I'm too find that there are always people willing to swap plants or just give them away. I know that when I grow plants from seed and if I have spares, I like to see my plants go to a good home.
I belong to a couple of gardening forums and we regularly have a seed parcel going round from which you can take and/or add and send on to the next person. this way, you get seeds for the cost of a postage stamp, way cheaper then buying seed packets.

I'm not shy of asking for cuttings these days either. I really need to stop giving my money away to garden centres.
wish I was that good with composting though. I will have to try harder at that.

peter_the_piper

Init_sister wrote: »

I really need to stop giving my money away to garden centres.

Boo Hiss. :):):)Don't stop giving your money to small nurseries though as once they are gone all that will be left are garden centres/sheds and most of them only have the same plants.