Can't say enough about how much I LOVE the plant list facilities on this site. I've long used it to remind me to save at least 1 individual of tender plants that I've put in the ground for temp landscaping/no-tend growing most of the year, and to quickly review only hardy plants, or potted plants, whatever my project is at the time.

I've added propagation categories to track which plants I've successfully propagated, either by water or soil, and a list of plants I want to propagate more. Doing this, I realized the surprising number of plants in which I seem to have lost interest after thorough investigation & propagation. Limited space for winter leads to this. And some after realizing they are hardy where I live now and running too much through my ground plantings. Like "curiosity satisfied... next?" Has that happened to you?

Also realized I haven't documented as much propagation as I thought. Wet/dirty fingers + electronics = uhoh. Trying to have the patience to stop, fix hands, take more pics lately. It's so much easier to show people what happened vs. trying to explain it. People usually want to discuss specifics, not the theoretical or hypothetical.

I'm terrible about getting my "plant activity to-do list" items done w/o an actual list. Using a category on here, I can remind myself periodically when I come inside to rest & refresh.

https://garden.org/lists/view/...

Spent the morning grounding most of the plants I got yesterday, grounding cuttings that have plenty of roots now, and snipping more cuttings. Garden is full... but I can't stop.

What you're describing sounds very familiar. I've been propagating & tending & planting & propagating some more... getting tired of some (usually common) things, getting too crazy about others... and not really wanting to take the time to find a home for my extras. I've got way more than enough to do (still need to create more beds to put plants in this fall) and am wearing myself out with the constant pressure to do it, but I keep setting myself up for more.

I really do enjoy the planning, doing, and successes even while the plans change constantly according to what plants I actually have and new things I find to plan for. But the internal desperation behind the pressure is a bit much. I've got to learn how to relax again. At least working with nature helps.

:)

That sounds frustrating. I spend so much time propagating because it is relaxing to me. But there is a lot of internal pressure to pull weeds. I don't mind doing it, except when it's so hot.

If you are considering digging to create new planting areas, consider smothering. So much less effort & the future weeding is much less.

Corrugated cardboard can be the bottom layer, just remove any tape or staples. I love starting a new flower bed with cardboard (covered with mulch, leaves, pine needles, kitchen scraps, yard trimmings - whatever I can find.) IME with doing it a bunch of times, the thickness of the organic matter on top is the key. It needs to be significantly heavy enough to physically prevent growth pushing through. Overlap seams & "patch" any holes or rips with another layer. if you have enough patience and it's not too windy, newspaper can do the same but it takes at least a dozen layers, and is so hard to cover without shifting.

This would not be ready to dig in until spring if started now, but worth doing wherever and if that would fit with your overall goals.

It sounds like you are propagating perennials. If so, maybe you could store some of the plants in your basement instead of trying to get them in the ground? It's about late to do that where you are, if you're not doing it in the next week or two, from what I observed gardening in OH most of my life (moved to AL in 2007.) Rush-jobs where I've hurriedly dug up grass to have new places to plant stuff has hardly ever gone well for me, here or there.

There's also an option of over-cramming, depending on your current spacing of existing plants. While you work @ new areas, you could cram plants into existing areas until you have more room to spread them out more.

Another option is to pile the pots up against a shed, or just somewhere in the yard, and cover them with a big pile of leaves.