Welcome, Greene. I need some company since everyone else seems to be making progress.

By the way, I haven't got my procrastinator's badge yet. I feel like if I actually go get it, then I'm not a procrastinator anymore...

I have not made much progress nor have I gotten a badge. LOL.

Ditto!

My pot ghetto is down to a tomato that for some reason I don't seem to want to plant. Am thinking it's too late now anyway. it's in a 3" pot. a coneflower that I'm still thinking about where to place and one weigela? bush. Some of my gallon pots I just put together in larger containers, so now I no longer consider them ghetto residents. They have moved up to condo dwellers. Oh, almost forgot the 2 flats of succulent cuttings that are now rooting and getting established in little 2" pots. They will probably be moved into 3" pots this fall and overwinter in my kitchen along with many other succulents and lots of coleus cuttings. So things will start all over again. And so it goes.

We sure have some Master Procrastinators here!

>> By the way, I haven't got my procrastinator's badge yet. I feel like if I actually go get it, then I'm not a procrastinator anymore...

That's genius! But oh, alas! If ONLY it were that easy. I'd buy a dozen badges and be half cured.

But no ... then my "forever projects" would all be complete. What would I do with myself if I didn't have a million things half-done? Would that mean that I would have to do the chores I'm REALLY avoiding?

>> The other thing I do that contributes to this situation is to buy too many plants. Is there another badge for that, or perhaps a plant shopper's anonymous group somewhere?

I only know of the support group for my particular addiction. Obsessive Seed Disorder, O. Seed D. I kept filling bigger and bigger boxes with my collection until I took positive action to address the problem. I started a second big box.

Rick, I'm so glad I'm not alone. We all have our obsessions, do we not? I'm out of room in my yard and have started planting gardens for other people now. Three so far this year, not including family.

O. Seed D.

Awesome!!!

>> have started planting gardens for other people now.

I tried, but that neighbor moved and I had to clear the raised bed out of her yard. And six lavatera were well-rooted and about to go into bloom!

My SO has let me plant two Knockout roses in her yard, but she knows me too well. She was on guard against letting me take over and plant things willy-nilly before it even occurred to me to try to encroach.


>> My pot ghetto is down to a tomato ... a coneflower ... and one weigela? bush
>> Oh, almost forgot the 2 flats of succulent cuttings

Whats a couple of flats among fellow fanatics?

You're the bright light on ATP, Rick!

I get so much friendship AND garden help here, I have to give back something! And I have a plentiful supply of "being silly".

RickCorey said:We sure have some Master Procrastinators here!

>> By the way, I haven't got my procrastinator's badge yet. I feel like if I actually go get it, then I'm not a procrastinator anymore...

That's genius! But oh, alas! If ONLY it were that easy. I'd buy a dozen badges and be half cured.

But no ... then my "forever projects" would all be complete. What would I do with myself if I didn't have a million things half-done? Would that mean that I would have to do the chores I'm REALLY avoiding?

>> The other thing I do that contributes to this situation is to buy too many plants. Is there another badge for that, or perhaps a plant shopper's anonymous group somewhere?

I only know of the support group for my particular addiction. Obsessive Seed Disorder, O. Seed D. I kept filling bigger and bigger boxes with my collection until I took positive action to address the problem. I started a second big box.

I have a crock pot full of seeds and yet I still order more seeds! This madness needs to stop soon, other wise I will need a bigger crock pot, then I might actually use the red one for cooking....Oh, there is a thought! O. Seed D.!

Being silly rocks. I am still laughing at Arlene's post

So my best friend started backing away and going "no more plants, thank you very much," every time I mentioned sharing anything. Several weeks ago her very large front yard was excavated to fix a pipe leak, and then it rained about 10 inches and turned the whole thing into somewhat of a sinkhole. I said, "hmmmm, looks like an opportunity for a new garden to me," and she agreed. She ordered 14 yards of dirt to fill it in. Once the excavator levels it out, I am bringing over everything I can find. Therefore, my pot ghetto will shrink significantly in the foreseeable future. HOWEVER, this is not due to any planning on my part, but to an accident of nature. I'm pretty sure I'll wind up in the same pickle when the late season sales get going.... Hi, I'm Jeanie, and I am a plantaholic....

Here is a photo of the first time the trench was dug and then covered up, before all the rain. Her front yard is probably half the size of a football field.

Oh - forgot to say - Rick, you hit the nail on the head about avoiding the chores we really should be doing, and about not having any half-finished projects. The thing about gardening is that there is no such thing as a Forever Project...there is always more to do. I spend every winter dreaming up changes and additions to whatever is in the yard. And of course I never get all of them finished.

>>>>> Hi, I'm Jeanie, and I am a plantaholic....

To the insanity and glad to meet you! I still have some work to do if I am going to get rid of this High Rise Ghetto! I am Susan and I am a plantaholic. LOL.

>> other wise I will need a bigger crock pot,

>> So my best friend started backing away and going "no more plants, thank you very much," every time I mentioned sharing anything.

I think the madness must be contagious. Or we're enabling each other.

Do we have enough information yet for a Twelve Step program for perennial potters?

I only know how it goes for seed-aholics.

1 Buy seeds
2 Buy More seeds
3 Organize seeds
4 Save some seeds
5 Get a bigger box for saved seeds
6 Buy bigger O.P. seed packets
7 Trade many bought seeds for Yet More Seeds
8 Multiply O.P. seeds and Save Vast Quantities
9 Trade and give away Vast Quantities
10 Organize seed swaps
11 Sell seeds on eBay
12 Buy larger house to hold more seeds

Jeanie - so how do you create a pipe leak? I'd like to fill a local property with tons of plants!

Oh my oh my oh my, I see we are a large and diverse group. Susan and I share our drug of choice, which would be POTted perennials. Rick, yours would be seeds. Others might be bulb addicts, and so on. Pirl, you might need an intervention if you are about to create pipe leaks in order to plant.

I do think that Rick's 12 steps are probably not the ones we should use in our groups... no offense, Rick.

Do you guys realize that I haven't stopped laughing since Arlene's post???

And I have to come clean...I stopped at Bachman's tonight and bought 9 more plants, the came home and divided my Little Grapette day lilies..I now have 14 pots of them along my front walk and on my front steps.

Yup, I came home with more again too. I've got the front 20 ghetto and the back 80 ghetto. Not number of residents; size