E110: Managing Your Garden's Pests Organically with Susan Mulvihill
Episode 110 - listen here!
This week is all about pests! Maggie and Dave dig into a topic that has never been covered before on The Grow Guide joined by guest, Susan Mulvihille. But first, Maggie and Dave catch up on their gardening lives. Dave shares about the two wonderful public gardens he’s visited in Manitoba over the last few weeks:
Maggie updates listener on the storm that swept through her rural community over August long weekend, destroying much of her greenhouse roof and garden. She shares about the various materials they’re sourcing to solve the problem and how the garden has been surprisingly resilient despite the damage.
Maggie’s Fav Thing: Zeolights Organic Calendula and Strawberry Blonde Calendula
Dave’s Fav Thing: Dwarf Tamarillo
This Week’s Guest: Susan Mulvihill
Susan is an American master gardener, blogger at susansinthegarden.com, educator and author of her new book The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook. She shares with us some of the issues going on in her garden this year with the extreme heat wave many of us gardeners around the world have been experiencing. Susan is a wealth of knowledge, sharing a variety of great, easy-to-use tips on how you can manage pests in your garden, including:
Why It’s Important to Use Organic Products on Pests (0:28:50)
Identifying Good Insects vs. Bad Pests (0:34:00)
Symptoms Causing a Garden to Have an Excess of Pests (0:37:00)
How to Manage Pests in the Middle of the Gardening Season (0:43:00)
Preventative Pest Measures (0:45:10)
Cabbage Worms (0:50:26)
Aphids (0:51:40)
Slugs (0:53:49)
Japanese Beetles (0:56:10)
You can purchase Susan’s book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, worldwide! Find it at your local bookstore or on Amazon. View the full list of retailers here.
