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Quote from: Jeannine on October 03, 2025, 08:43:28JanG, I didn't  joined your seed saver group and I don't need anything but I would like to send your group  some  of my this tear Mayoral Blue Squash seeds to pass on if you wish. I got 4 decent sized squash and a smaller one ,they are out of the garden now and are inside in a cool room. If you can give me an idea how many seeds you could use I will get them to you. Canada post is currently on strike since last Thursday and not accepting anything for mailing.Last year it was 5 weeks. Let me know.XX Jeannine

Thank you very much, Jeanine. Having read abut your efforts to keep this variety going it will be an honour to be part of trying to ensure it lives on.

We are either seven or eight members. If you have lots of seeds then please send plenty for each member and I will happily divide them up and distribute.

We operate to an end of November deadline. With your postal strike and the time it takes for squash seeds to dry out it might well be that that is too soon for your seeds. Please send them anyway and I will either put them in the freezer for next year or, more likely, ask that anyone who wants to grow them next year should let me know and I'll post them out later but in time for growing. 

Thank you again, Jeannine. We look forward to receiving these very special seeds when the postal strike sorts itself out.

In haste .. hopefully the following..

CFB Box. Poletscka. Alice Whitis Pink.

DFB .Cupitano.

Pea.  Twelve Acre. Fairbeards Pariel.

Cress. Grandpa's.

Toms. First in the field ( it was!) Glacier. Rose de Berne. Mexican    Midget.  Peppermint. Peruvianum. Goldiana .

Cinnamon Vine . Mangle , Yellow Intermediate.

Flowers. Impomoea, Tutu. Four O'clock flower. Lucy's Starburst Marigolds. Viola ,Brush Strokes. Species Sweet Pea, Pink Tangier.
Cosmos, Sulphureus.

There should have been more peas , just was not their time.

Information about cinnamon vine below.  Basically it is a yam, that produces both starchy mini yam aerial tubers on the plant after flowering and also big storage tubers in the ground.  Both are fully edible and nice tasting.  The flowers smell very nice too, but more like quality fabric softener than cinnamon (in my experience). 

https://www.uaex.uada.edu/yard-garden/resource-library/plant-week/cinnamon.aspx#:~:text=Cinnamon%20vine%2C%20so%20named%20because,weight%20up%20to%20a%20pound.

Thank you Jeannine, we will do our very best to keep this variety going and sharing seeds further.  You went above and beyond to make this possible and we appreciate it very much.   

JanG, I didn't  joined your seed saver group and I don't need anything but I would like to send your group  some  of my this tear Mayoral Blue Squash seeds to pass on if you wish. I got 4 decent sized squash and a smaller one ,they are out of the garden now and are inside in a cool room. If you can give me an idea how many seeds you could use I will get them to you. Canada post is currently on strike since last Thursday and not accepting anything for mailing.Last year it was 5 weeks. Let me know.XX Jeannine

As we are quite near our November deadline, I think we need confirmation from Debs that she would like to participate. There has been only one post from you, Debs, and on that basis I don't think we can ask everyone to prepare extra seed packets.

I think it's fair to say that we need to hear more in the next four or five days as we will all be apportioning seed in the coming weeks.

In line with the request to Debs to give information about the varieties she mentioned it will be good for us all to exchange more information, and photos where possible, as we prepare our contributions. Thank you to participants, especially Galina, for information already shared.

I hope to play my part by making a final decision about at least tomatoes and posting later today!

Please could we have some information about cinnamon vine. It's new to me. Is it edible? What does it do?!

Sounds intriguing.

That's lovely MR, one less packet to do as I obviously don't need them, still going strong here, so yours will stretch a little further. Doesn't it smell lovely when flowering?  Tiny aerial tubers will grow just fine, especially if they are put into a pot, with barely damp soil, over winter frost free.

Many moons ago 2015 ish Galina ( I think ) contributed cinnamon vine aerial tubers , I have just found a straggly bit in the corner of the greenhouse, the mice have had a field day so I only managed to rescue a small number and these are small from peppercorn to large pea size . 
I am not sure if they are big enough to be viable but if anyone is interested I could add them to the list !

That looks a great bean, Galina. Always useful and rewarding to have a bean which can be eaten at all stages. Thank you.