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Ground-Layering Techniques Using Disposable Cups - Part 2

(This is the continuation from Part 1)

  1. While holding the disposable cup, punch several holes at the bottom of the cup by pushing the heated nail. The heated pointed end of the nail would melt the plastic of the cup. The size of the hole must be big enough for twist ties to pass through. The shape of the created holes is insignificant. Punch the holes about an inch apart from each other.

Ground-Layering Techniques Using Disposable Cups

The Mandevilla is one of our favorite vines. It comes in shades of red, pink, white and yellow. It is a rather finicky vine in that it cannot tolerate its roots being wet most of the time.

For this reason, several of my mandevillas were planted in garden pots in the porch. The roofed porch protects the mandevilla pot's soil from getting soaked from the strong rains. Its location, however, receives plenty of sunlight in the afternoon.