372 - Top 10 Garden Pest Problems and How to Identify Them
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you'll learn how to identify and manage common garden pests. You'll understand the importance of not rushing to use insecticides without proper identification, as some organic controls can harm beneficial insects and may not be effective for all pests.
Jill discusses ten potential problems you might encounter in your garden, providing specific signs and symptoms to help you identify the pests causing the damage. From insects causing unidentifiable damage to critters like deer and rabbits, you'll gain insights and tips on mitigating these issues. You'll also understand the importance of recognizing the lifecycle stages of insects.
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| 0:00.0 | You're walking your garden on a beautiful June day and you notice that something is not quite right. |
| 0:05.9 | Maybe you notice large holes in your leaves or maybe small holes, tiny holes. |
| 0:11.9 | Maybe entire leaves are missing altogether or the leaves just don't look right. |
| 0:16.9 | Maybe they look puckered a bit. |
| 0:18.3 | We talked in last week's episode about how as organic |
| 0:21.8 | gardeners we don't want to when we start seeing evidence of a pest start blindly applying |
| 0:27.5 | insecticides. Number one, even if we're applying organic controls, many still aren't safe |
| 0:34.2 | across the board for beneficial insects. And number two, not all organic insecticides work |
| 0:40.5 | for all pests. It really does boil down to then identifying the culprit. That makes the biggest |
| 0:48.1 | difference and should be step number one when we start seeing issues with our plants. Today I'm going to teach you how to channel |
| 0:55.6 | your inner Sherlock Holmes or Nancy Drew, if you're of my generation, and identify the culprit, |
| 1:02.4 | or at least get close enough to know what might be causing the problem so that you know what to do. |
| 1:09.6 | Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill and I'm so glad |
| 1:13.4 | you're here. In this podcast, you'll find easy to understand conversations about how to grow your own |
| 1:19.2 | food. As a first time gardener myself 11 years ago, I remember what it's like to feel overwhelmed. |
| 1:25.7 | So I want to make gardening so doable for you |
| 1:29.0 | that you'll find yourself falling in love with gardening just like I did. Let's dig in. |
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| 1:45.9 | coverage in your raised beds. With seedlings, especially in the summer, they need frequent or even |
| 1:50.7 | daily watering until the roots are established. If you have dry spots or poor coverage, |
| 1:55.9 | this usually means that the seedling will die. But the garden grids can help combat this. |
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