A few days ago, I heard that you shouldn't rely on the "old trick" of testing the top of the potting soil with your finger, because underneath, it could be sufficiently moisty, so that additional watering because of a seemingly dry soil would be counterproductive.
What to do? Raise only cactuses? (Fortunately, one of my plants recovers very well from "dry seasons", even if it let its leaves hang down so as if to say that I eventually managed to kill it.)
Of course, you could always stick a small bottle filled with water into the soil, upside down, or use one of the many gadgets that were invented to make a nicer sight (but the operating mode is the same).
And there's a variety of flower pots containing water reservoirs to moisten the potting soil to save time and help us cover up our carelessness. But this one is the funniest I ever saw:
The roly-poly pot. Due to a weight hidden in the bottom of the pot, the pot tumbles over when the water reservoir is emptying and straightens up when you add water.
Brilliant idea! (Although I suspect my pots would hang lopsided a lot of the time anyway...)
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