Viewing post #56226 by Weedwhacker

gardenersdetective said: The caladiums, elephant ears and such really don't perform very well till it is consistently 60 degrees at night and the soil warms up. It is not worth the trouble and mess for me to start early indoors, just requires patience till it gets hot enough.

I think I see what my problem is -- many years we never get temps consistently 60 degrees at night!

This year would have been the exception to that, I don't remember ever having this hot of a summer -- too bad I didn't plant any! I can see I also need to work on the potting mix thing, no wonder I'm never very happy overall with my container plants -- time to break out of the MG rut!