235 - Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden with Jessica Walliser
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Today I'm speaking to Jessica Walliser, author of Good Bug, Bad Bug and others, about attracting beneficial bugs to your garden.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's very special episode of the Beginners Garden podcast. You guys, I've got a treat for you today. |
| 0:07.1 | We're going to be talking to Jessica Walliser. She is the author of the brand new book, |
| 0:12.5 | Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden. And the reason I'm saying that this is a very special |
| 0:17.9 | episode, not only are you going to find a lot of great |
| 0:21.8 | information, especially if you're an organic gardener and you're wanting to approach your garden |
| 0:25.5 | in an organic method, we've got a lot for you here in this episode. But the reason why I was |
| 0:32.2 | thrilled to bring her to you is because I've been following her and following her methods |
| 0:37.0 | from almost the beginning |
| 0:38.9 | of my garden journey when I wanted to become an organic gardener and I wanted to incorporate |
| 0:44.1 | more diversity and attracting beneficial insects and not having to spray and all the things |
| 0:50.0 | that I think a lot of us want to do as beginning organic gardeners when I followed what she has been teaching for the, you know, I don't know how long |
| 0:58.0 | she's been teaching it, but I've been following her for many years. |
| 1:01.0 | I can tell you I can see a difference. |
| 1:03.0 | And so much of what I've taught you over the last five years of this podcast regarding |
| 1:07.8 | organic gardening has come straight from her and her methods. So I am thrilled |
| 1:13.4 | to be sharing with you this conversation with her. We're going to be talking about what does |
| 1:18.8 | organic gardening mean and what can you do and what should you not be doing, you know, |
| 1:24.6 | things that that I think we step in too soon and she's going to talk to you |
| 1:28.1 | about all that. I know you're going to leave this conversation inspired and you're going to have |
| 1:32.1 | lots of great ideas to promote an even more organic garden with what you're doing this year. |
| 1:38.8 | If you're not familiar with Jessica, she's probably the most well known for her book, |
| 1:43.9 | Good Bug, Bad Bug. And this is really |
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