You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net,

and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. Hi guys. Welcome back to the Beginners Garden podcast.

One question that I've had more than any lately is how to deal with aphids. So if you are one of those who is

having issues with aphids, you are not alone. I have them in my garden right now and so do a lot of you

guys. So I know this is something that a lot of us are going through. And if you're like me,

you want to deal with aphids in any other pests in your garden.

With natural methods, you don't want to introduce a lot of chemical pesticides or anything like

that in your garden, but you're not really sure what to do. So in a little bit, we're going to be

talking about aphid prevention and also how to control

aphids once you have them in your garden but before we get to that I'm going to go over what

aphids are and how they affect your plants and we're going to talk just a lot about the nitty

gritty of apids especially for those of you guys who are beginners and want the basics of this pest.

But before we go any further, I have to let you know that hopefully you won't notice me being

jittery or talking too fast or anything like that. But I'm kind of on a sugar and caffeine rush.

And can I even admit that

when I try to talk about, you know, eating healthier by growing your own vegetables and fruits?

But it is really hot today.

We've had a pretty mild spring for our area, and then it just decided to get summer, like,

overnight.

So this week has been oppressively hot and we spent the afternoon my kids

and I did at my mother-in-law's pool today and I sat in that sun and you know how sun just kind

of saps you when you start getting into the 90s and when heat indices or in the hundreds

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