Hi Gardening Michelle 2011,
It’s me again, GM 2010. I’m writing to remind you of a few more things to make gardening easier and hopefully more successful.
You’ve got enough iced mocha cups now, both with and without holes on the bottom. Remember to put the ones with holes into the ones without holes, but make sure the ones without holes have a little water in them. This will let you water from the bottom, which is better for the roots and will also reduce the frequency you need to water. Plus, if you use fish fertilizer, the top cup will block most of the smell and your house won’t smell like a pond. Just make the holes a little bigger because I’m not sure the water is getting soaked up as regularly as it should.
The plastic salad bins worked great as a greenhouse for the eggplants, consider getting at least one carnivorous plants for the gnats that may appear again (name it Audrey III), get the italian veggie seeds at Rail City and remember to start only half of your flower seeds indoors. Start the rest of the flower seeds outside, once you know what the seedlings look like. That way, you’re not pulling up poppy seedlings because they look like dandelions.
Oh! Before I forget, your lilac is going to look all fallen over as it did this year for the first time. Either remember to prune or trellis it somehow, because it looks like crap.
Smooches, GM 2010