What’s going on in your garden (2025)?

I guess I'm not sure if it is moist where the roots are.
I can stick my finger into the soil up to my knuckle and it comes out dry. All the water looks like it is on the plate now.
That was about 3/4c. If I pour any more in I'll overflow the plate.
 
You can spray it with a mister. If it's too dry it will start to yellow and if it's too wet it will start to yellow. Once that soil gets dry it hard to get it wet again!
 
I just got back from the hardware store. They sold me basically the same thing, but with the word "indoor" included.
Totally different soil. Dark and will clump together if you squeeze it. So they are replanted in that. And it does hold moisture.

Time will tell. They both do not look as good as yesterday, but I imagine there is a bit of a shock factor going on.
 
PAcanis said:
I just got back from the hardware store. They sold me basically the same thing, but with the word "indoor" included.
Totally different soil. Dark and will clump together if you squeeze it. So they are replanted in that. And it does hold moisture.

Time will tell. They both do not look as good as yesterday, but I imagine there is a bit of a shock factor going on.
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Give them a week and they'll be over it. 🤙
 
Nothing much happening, except my NZ spinach died. I think it didn't like the tropical temperatures.
Everything else is in survival mode till the rains start and it cools down a bit
 
badjak said:
Nothing much happening, except my NZ spinach died. I think it didn't like the tropical temperatures.
Everything else is in survival mode till the rains start and it cools down a bit
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It likes moisture. It can handle heat. Mine has been up to +44°C for short periods of time and regularly high 30's. A couple of times it has looked like it's all dead, but it self seeds and came back. That's typically been in winter. Right now, I'm pulling it out by the wheelbarrow full. It's happy. Wet and warm.
 
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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
It likes moisture. It can handle heat. Mine has been up to +44°C for short periods of time and regularly high 30's. A couple of times it has looked like it's all dead, but it self seeds and can't back. That's typically been in winter. Right now, in pulling it out by the wheelbarrow full. It's happy. Wet and warm.
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It did okay for 2 weeks of 42-45 oC
Then it said goodbye. Enough is enough, it said.
I hope it comes back. This one did.
 
NZ spinach - that's what you call Warrigan greens, SatNavSaysStraightOn ?
If it is, it grows perfectly over here in all sorts of temperatures. In fact, it's the spinach we find in all the supermarkets. Wide-leaf spinach (ie. European/US spinach) is almost impossible to find.
 
karadekoolaid said:
NZ spinach - that's what you call Warrigan greens, SatNavSaysStraightOn ?
If it is, it grows perfectly over here in all sorts of temperatures. In fact, it's the spinach we find in all the supermarkets. Wide-leaf spinach (ie. European/US spinach) is almost impossible to find.
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Yep. The same
According to wiki
Tetragonia tetragonioides - Wikipedia

It really doesn't like our summer, dunno.
It grows okay during the rest of the year
 
karadekoolaid said:
NZ spinach - that's what you call Warrigan greens, @SatNavSaysStraightOn ?
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Warrigal greens, yes. It grows wild here, though closer to the coast. It likes moisture. Mine needs help through the summer months, shade cloth and water during the really hot dry spells in February.

Mind you I grow almost everything under shade cloth, that way it doesn't get to stressed over the UV index which frequently hits 15, and I can get out into the garden as well.
 
Got my garlic mulched over. Should start seeing them in about a month.
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Cayenne plants are still charging along.
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