New Zealand Spinach

A really neat cyberfriend sent me some New Zealand Spinach seeds (or should I call them fruits?) just before I went across country so I've been salivating over the chance to come back and plant them for some time now!

Wanting to know whether the gnarly little fellas should be soaked before planting and what their heat tolerance was going to be (it is HOT here in the Palm Desert) I tried Googling up some information and found this awesome blog:

Matron's post from March 27, 2009

Meanwhile, I've been so proud of my modular pot-in-pot system, but this morning I encountered a difficulty. Apparently due to my having set the automatic watering widgets to spray too much water, the hole in the bottom of the outer pot plugged and was not draining. I had to go out with the kitchen baster and suck up extra water from one of the holes, as the last thing we need in this neighborhood is standing water to attract more mosquitos. As usual, this sort of thing happens right after I have manicured my nails.

On the other hand, this baby fig tree seems pretty happy with my pot-in-pot system.  I lifted it out for this photo: