Okay-okay. No more Emails! . I say Uncle! I heard from so many of you fellow GWebers. I have many requests for the Heirloom beans and the flower mixes and basils. I'll have to put them in a hat and draw out the winners. I will go thru and match up seeds this weekend. And I promise to mail them out by next week Tuesday at the latest. Thanks to all who answered. It's giving me a good feeling to get rid of my Seed Hoard! I'll be in touch with everyone soon who sent Emails! No need to senmd me postage or envelopes or anything in exchange From Jannie

I wonder if anyone has noticed that not a single match has been made on this thread between a person with extra dirt and a person who needs it who are both close to each other. Not surprising. I suggest using your local Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, etc. or the matching sites linked in this thread.

Try looking on Celiac.com. Lots of recipes, helps and a place to order items also. As far as flour, buckwheat is fine, as it belongs to the rhubarb family. Do a search on grains, or gluten.

Myal, this is a distinction I learned long ago on Gardenweb. We in the U.K. use the word 'compost' to mean the stuff we make in our compost heaps from any organic materials we can scrounge which is then used as a soil conditioner. But we also use the same word to refer to growing media such as seed compost, ericaceous compost, potting compost, etc. This can be confusing for US gardeners because they use different nomenclature to distinguish the two. Almost everyone on these forums is based in the USA so they may not be familiar with our usage, nor our gardening publications, although many are. I keep out of container growing discussions because there are very strong opinions voiced on these forums. Somehow UK gardeners manage to grow things in pots despite apparently doing it all wrong. But I just let those discussions go. I frequent these forums precisely for these differences in gardening culture and challenges. Some I agree with, some I don't. Some are irrelevant to our climate. But I find the ideas interesting. I find U.K. gardening forums and magazines fairly boring since they only tell me what I know already.