Hey there and welcome back to the Beginners Garden podcast. Today we're going to have a very

frank discussion when it comes to organic gardening and specifically pests. This is the time of

year where our best laid plans get a reality check and that reality check comes in the form of

bugs. When we're dreaming of our gardens, especially in January, February, or before all of the

bugs come out of hibernation, we have dreams of a homegrown, pristine, organic harvest, and

probably about June, about now, we start to realize, if not a little bit before, that those dreams are very well on

the way to getting threatened. Now, before you get discouraged, before you give in and go by a

bottle of the red stuff that sounds like your favorite number, please don't, or before you

give up altogether, let's just have a talk about organic gardening

when we're dealing with the very real presence of crop eating bugs. Because the truth is,

if we are wanting to do an organic garden, we can't just assume that we can go hands off and just

pretend all the bugs aren't there or that we can just switch one to one

our inorganic pesticides for organic ones and expect that to work. But there are things that we can do

and organic gardeners like myself do this every single year. But what I wanted to do today is talk

to you about some things you need to know about gardening

organically in your vegetable garden. Yes, it can be done. Yes, there are some methods that I'm

going to be sharing with you today. But more than that, I think there's just some things that

is important for us to know at the outset what we're dealing with when it comes to growing our vegetables

organically in our home garden.

Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast.

I'm Jill and I'm so glad you're here.

In this podcast, you'll find easy to understand conversations about how to grow your own food.

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