You're listening to the Joe Gardner show, the podcast all about gardening,

where we cover everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required.

And now, here's your guy, National Gardening Television Host,

and the Joe behind Joe Gardner, Joe Lample.

Hi everybody, it's Joe Lample, the Joe behind behind Joe Gardner and thank you for listening to the Joe Gardner show

So today we're going to continue the topic of using organic controls in our garden

from dealing with weeds and diseases and pest

and that's what we're talking about today organic pest control options

and we're continuing our series with our friend, Dr. Jeff Gilman.

He's a frequent guest on our television show, Growing a Greener World, on PBS,

other podcast episodes that I've done.

This is the newest news.

He's also one of our expert content

contributors to Joe Gardner.com. So he'll be making a monthly

appearance at least on the blog there with some great information. So about Dr. Jeff Gilman. He holds a master's degree in

entomology and a PhD in horticulture. He's worked as a professor at the

University of Minnesota. He is currently the director of the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens and Charlotte, North Carolina,

but he's conducted many experiments over his career as a professor, So I like that and that's exactly the kind of information we want from our experts and Jeff certainly is a

a great testament to that he also is the author of some of my favorite gardening books the truth about organic gardening

benefits drawbacks in the bottom line another one I love a lot is the truth about

garden remedies what works what doesn't and why and he's got some others as well

so I'm going to provide all of this information

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