Gardening

Background: I've started a second round of seeds indoors, this time a mix of cucumbers (spacemaster and muncher) and tomatoes (tiny tim and marglobe). For my first round in April I used those Jiffy peat pellets, which I don't think I'll use again b/c I'm reading online that the mesh netting may not break down as quickly as I had initially thought. For my second round I used a mix of Jiffy seed starting mix and coco coir as recommended by Gary Pilarchik of Rusted Garden, which I also used to pot up my first round seedlings into 3" pots. I hydrated the mix w/ three pots of boiling water as shown in Gary's video and then let it sit for a day or two before using it.

Good news: My cukes have sprouted after three days!

Bad news: I must not have saturated the mix enough to kill all the fungus gnat eggs b/c this morning while inspecting my cucumber sprouts, I spotted what I assume to be a fungus gnat flying around inside the humidity dome.

Advice/Next steps: Is it time to head to the store and pick up some mosquito bits? What other approaches for treatment and prevention have worked for people of c/gardening?

Further reading: How to Identify and Get Rid of Fungus Gnats | Almanac.com