I live in apartment so space is a huge concern. I plant veggies for all three florida seasons and I've started to just look at it as a blessing. I usually grow three types of tomatoes a season (beefsteak, cherry, and paste) and i start four of each for transplant. by the time i do transplant them, there is always one that looks better: thicker stem, closer nodes, more development, whatever. This is the one I go with, and I do that with all my plants.

My feeling is that there can never be too many plants!Sort of like chocolate...
I just found a third bakers rack at Goodwill to hold more pots full of cuttings as I can't seem to manage throwing away when I prune. I save cuttings of everything, even plants I don't like or have not been successful with. Doesn't matter, they're free.
I always find a spot although it's getting harder and harder and you can't see the little gems that are hidden.
Have never grown veggies, though, so my downfall is ornamentals - I get plants for shade when I have no more shade so it means carting them around in pots to the little shade there is. I get plants for sun and then the sun "moves" just as I know it will.
And my local small nursery often gives me half dead plants which I surely should refuse, but oh no, I just smile happily.
And don't let me near the seed displays!
So you see, you are not alone in this obsession!
Hester

I'm right there with you! I hate to thin out seedlings. The seed racks must have a magnet in them. I can't walk by them, even though I have more seeds than I will ever plant! I love to go to thrift stores and yard sales. I guess I will have to try and find a baker's rack. I definitely need more plant space inside. I seem to have a knack for starting African violets from cuttings. It was just a fluke that I found a leaf in the store and the cashier let me have it. So easily swayed when it comes to anything dealing with plants!

Oh, I can SO relate! I live on 1/3 acre and have a 4 bedroom house AND a greenhouse - all full! When the cold weather is predicted, I have a temporary 'greenhouse' I put up and FILL UP - yep, I can surely relate to what you said! I still make my daily trip to the box stores and local nursery, because you never know - they MIGHT have something I don't have - I usually come home with SOMETHING!

Welcome to the dark side. Muuuhahaha I have 3+ acres to grow stuff on but it keeps shrinking every year LOL!

No, there are many of us, we covet and then must own that one more plant, cutting or seed type. Then, I have to have it in the pink, the dark red and, wouldn't the peach colored one look great, too? Oh, curly parsley, flat leaf, large flat leaf, extra curly leaf, improved super flat leaf...
Too many? No, no, no, what if some don't make it? Or, what if Tim down the street wants one? Or, maybe I can sell them on eBay...or...No such thing as too many in any gardeners' vocabulary worth their turnips in my opinion.

Plants are like potato chips....you can't have just one. ;)

(Same goes with cats....) :)

--- yep, all it took was a square of dirt to call my own. I bought seed I've yet to plant, went to plant swaps and brought home leftovers, rescued plants and pots from the curb and swiped ripe seed pods from parking lot plantings. Once, I even knocked on a perfect strangers door to tell him how beautiful his peachy-pink canna were and asked where he'd purchased them. They were from his Georgia friends yard and he was glad to dig up a few for me. I returned the next week with a door wreath I'd made as a thank you gift. Last winter's freeze finally took the last one.

I am the same, can't pass something up I don't have. And my 30ft royal poincianna is from a seed pod that I got from knocking on someones door to ask if I might take one. I love being outside with the butterflies and birds. Lubbers not so much.:o(

Hubby says it's in my genes, my ancesters were potato farmers in the old country.

That's it! It IS in my genes! My grandparents on BOTH sides farmed. My maternal grandfather was a cotton and corn farmer and when he retired he came to Florida and....grafted citrus for fun. My paternal grandmother gardened all her life and canned ALL of their fruits and veggies...

It MUST be in my genes. I was adament about it since I was a kid, but my thumb didn't turn from black until more recently. (Then again it's still not entirely green!)

Hubby couldn't care less about getting dirt under his nails he just wants to EAT the food. He also enjoys the ornamentals I grow, but edibles are a plus for him. LOL.

Good to know that if I'm crazy at least it is a shared problem. ;-) 'Cause y'all just described me to a TEE!

Barbie

that's what a spring swap is for...to dump the stuff we can't keep, lol.
Lori

I bet this describes most of us here! Even when I quit veggie gardening over the last few years, I'd dream over the seed catalogs. Now that my youngest is big enough to play in the yard while I garden, I am excited to get back into it. I just planted 4 new fruit trees and it was SO HARD not to order a bunch more. I also had to restrain myself from ordering ten times more seeds than I can possibly use. I probably bought only twice as much as I can squeeze into my garden. That's not too bad, right?

Both my parents grew up on farms, but both were happy to get OFF of them. They planted some bushes and the occasional tree in the yard, and my mom has some potted tropicals, but neither of them ever showed any burning desire to grow edibles. I guess the urge skipped a generation in my case. ;-)

No, you are not alone! I live in a mobile home park with a very small plot & every inch has something growing in it. I even have a mango tree, though it is a patio one that is only supposed to get about 12'. I even grow a few veggies.

No, you are not alone! I live in a mobile home park with a very small plot & every inch has something growing in it. I even have a mango tree, though it is a patio one that is only supposed to get about 12'. I even grow a few veggies.