Do you resemble this remark?

A cartoon was posted in the Hilarious, rib tickling memes thread (Thank you Jocelyn Campbell!!) that made me laugh unreasonably.... HEY! I resemble that remark!!



This spring I had plants to go into the new garden I made. Most of them in this picture are tomatoes, of various types, some I grew, some I bought... 84 tomato plants! But when this picture was taken, I actually had space for 24 of them. Only leaves 60 to account for...



Do you resemble this remark? Show off your excess plants! We will all be envious!! :D

We go through the same behavior every year.  We carefully make up a list based upon diagrams of our property as well as a careful walk around our garden and high tunnel identifying where each plant and seed will go.  We limit our purchases to an absolute  of $100 and aim for $50. We go to up to 4 local nurseries. Then we make our annual pilgrimage to Baker Creek.  Of course, we drive home from Baker Creek with around $400 in seeds. Then there us the cost of the gas and the motel in Springfield.  To be fair, the travel costs are normally for Baker Creek, Missouri Wind and Solar,  and a couple of other destinations (the last couple of trips this has included livestock.   The saved shipping costs make up for the travel costs. By any means, we drive home confident that we have done our share to prevent the economy of Missouri from  collapsing.

I just LOVE sowing seeds in pots and other containers in my window sil in early spring. Always more than I can plant in my garden. And often I sow too early in spring, and then the seedlings become leggy ...


Small seedlings of different species


Tomato seedlings


Leggy seedlings (kale)


Good looking seedlings. Cardoon plants were a good choice for my garden!

I did that!
I started them really early, I ended up having to up pot the tomatoes 3 times, they got huge…
I had to take them outside every day and bring them back in, what a fiasco.

I had purchased several Bell Pepper plants because my grown from seed plants were still very small. I did finally use some of those, however, I gave a cousin about 2/3 of a flat.

I also dug up several Elderberry Plants which I thought I'd sell at my "Open Garden Day" but I had only 10 people show up - and no sales of those plants. I'll have to make some calls to see if I can GIVE them away.

My gluttonous plant purchases tend more toward tropical fruit trees and such that need to be grown in a greenhouse or in pots in my zone 6 area.  Several years ago I planned to build a greenhouse and so started buying plants and "temporarily" put them in non-plastic pots which I dutifully (with only modest amounts of cussing) lug outdoors in late spring and back indoors in mid-fall or so, depending on the cold tolerance of each plant.

Each year I put off the greenhouse project due to caregiving duties, physical limitations, other incomplete projects, and financial considerations.  Each year I add just a few more huge pots with cool tropical plants.  This past year our dining room looked like a jungle, being the only room in our small farmhouse with a south facing window other than my elderly mom's bedroom.  We could barely fit around the dining table to eat meals.

And yet, I just received another delivery of baby tropical plants!  Macadamia, cinnamon, lemongrass, spilanthes, patchouli, curry leaf, plus a few others.  Some don't like the environment and fail to thrive, such as the variegated cotton plant, the black pepper vine, the very tender wasabi, and a mango tree.  Others do well (like the cacao tree, vanilla orchid and pomegranate) and many just kind of hang in there, looking a bit sad and making me feel guilty for not getting their permanent home built.  This year I'll hang a few grow lights in the living room along a windowless wall and line up several of the biggest pots there so the dining room can still be used.  

Most of the plants are outside on the deck now so I can't take a photo of the jungle-room to share.

The only other thing I've overdone was my garlic planting last fall.  I planted as much as I could fit where I had planned to plant it all, then had enough cloves left to fill my 40 square foot "raised" bed that acts as a safety railing around part of the deck.  Just harvested those and they are small, but they all grew!  I also harvested the scapes awhile back, and made garlic scape powder which is like garlic powder but green.  I keep threatening to add a bunch of it to scrambled eggs for "green eggs and ham," but haven't followed through on that yet...

It's not hording if it's plants

I totally resemble this remark!!!  I will tell myself I can't buy a plan/tree if I don't have a place to put it, and then get it anyway.  Maybe I need to go a step further.  Make myself dig the hole before I can buy more plants.
It's a real sickness. I killed so many seedlings this year, that I started, and never got planted.  Even now I have 3 hops plants, perineal sunflower, and echinacea that need a home.

Its a problem but I'm lucky that my partner balances me out.

I get plants, but struggle to get them into the ground.

She likes the plants, but she likes all the rocks that we can sift out of the dirt from the ground to be added to her projects.

I'll dig, she sifts, we both put the plant in the ground.

It is very efficient! I'm becoming something of a pro rock excavator if I do say so myself.

Donna Lynn wrote:And yet, I just received another delivery of baby tropical plants!  Macadamia, cinnamon, lemongrass, spilanthes, patchouli, curry leaf, plus a few others.  Some don't like the environment and fail to thrive, such as the variegated cotton plant, the black pepper vine, the very tender wasabi, and a mango tree.  Others do well (like the cacao tree, vanilla orchid and pomegranate) and many just kind of hang in there...

Donna, where did you buy those amazing plants?

Robin Katz wrote:

Donna Lynn wrote:And yet, I just received another delivery of baby tropical plants!  Macadamia, cinnamon, lemongrass, spilanthes, patchouli, curry leaf, plus a few others.  Some don't like the environment and fail to thrive, such as the variegated cotton plant, the black pepper vine, the very tender wasabi, and a mango tree.  Others do well (like the cacao tree, vanilla orchid and pomegranate) and many just kind of hang in there...

Donna, where did you buy those amazing plants?

Logees.com is the website.  they have lots of rare and tropical plants, fruiting and decorative.  Prices are not terrible either.  Availability is sometimes not the best, but they are good at letting you know if there is any problem with your order being filled promptly.   They also offer a 60 day guarantee and are pretty good about honoring it once you submit pictures and details.  I'm happy to recommend them!

Thanks for the recommendation for Logees. I bought from them a long time ago but didn't realize that they had such a diverse offering of plants. I'll check them out!