Hey guys, we are in the thick of gardening season, and I hope that your garden has turned out to be everything that you had hoped it would be.

But most likely, we have our hits and we have our misses and we have our pests.

And a lot of times we know to expect pests, but we don't realize exactly what we are up against until the garden is actually

going. And then we're not quite sure what to do. This can be the case whether we've been gardening

for a long time or whether we're beginning gardeners. But in my experience, I believe as beginners,

we just tend to panic a little bit more because we just aren't sure what to do. And especially

if we want to garden organically,

we don't know how to handle these things.

Well, today's guest is going to be addressing some of these issues

and she is going to give you so much good information,

information that you can put into practice in your garden right now.

We're going to be talking to Susan Mulvill, and she is the author of the book,

The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook. And this book is, to me, a must have. I feel like it needs

to be on all of our shelves because not only is it a good book to read,

I did just sit down and read it through, but it's also a very good reference book.

She'll talk in our conversation today about many of the different charts and resources that

are in the book. I know I am already going back to the book and looking at different things

that I didn't know when I first started. So to me, it's just becoming something that I go back to.

A little bit about Susan, if you haven't heard of her, she has been a master gardener

with the Spokane County master gardeners for almost 20 years.

And she's been an avid garden writer and she's been helping beginners for so many years with

their gardens and she's a wealth of knowledge but the good thing is is that when she is talking

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