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. If you've ever found aphids on your plants in your garden, you may have a panicked moment,

kind of like I do.

You're not really sure what you should do if you should do anything. What spray is an option should you spray? Maybe you're like me

and you pull out your phone right there in the garden and you look up pest control methods or

organic pest control methods. And then that brings a whole host of options.

Which one should you choose?

This year I have encountered aphids in a different way than I have in the past, but with that,

I've been able to test some organic ways of controlling the aphids to see which ones performed

the best and what other results

occurred after I tested these different methods.

So that's what this podcast is going to be all about is to share with you the three

organic ways that I was able to deal with aphids and what the results of each of those

tests were.

Some of this information you definitely want to write down, but I know I've heard from a lot

of you guys that you listen to this podcast episode while you're driving.

So be sure to go back to journey withjill.net and take a look at the show notes of this

episode where I have all this information,

as well as links to some of the research that I've done and some of the recipes here

for these different controls. If you're a new listener, I just want to welcome you to the

Beginners Garden podcast. My goal in each of these episodes is to break down basic gardening information and advice to a way

that even a first-time gardener could understand. Because when I was a first-time gardener,

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