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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Attracting Beneficial Bugs To Your Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode kicks off a 7-day series about beneficial bugs that I GUARANTEE will change how you approach your garden. I'm chatting with Jessica Walliser, the author of Attracting Beneficial Bugs To Your Garden: A Natural Approach to Pest Control. She's trained in horticulture and has a ton of experience with bugs  of all kinds. Trust me when I say this series is going to blow your mind. Thanks for joining in. Learn More: Buy Jessica's Book, Attracting Beneficial Bugs To Your Garden Jessica's Website Savvy Gardening Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everyone Kevin from Epic Gardening here and today we are back with another

0:07.2

guest this is Jessica Walliser the author of attracting beneficial bugs to your garden, a natural approach to pest control.

0:15.7

So as you can see, we're probably going to be talking about beneficial bugs this week on the

0:20.4

podcast, which is something I have to admit I know some about we've done a couple

0:24.9

episodes on this in the past but certainly not as much as Jessica so I'm really

0:29.0

excited to have her on thank you so much for coming on Jessica well Well, thank you for inviting me, Kevin.

0:34.0

You are welcome.

0:35.0

I actually don't even remember how we connected with each other.

0:38.0

I think it was you heard a podcast that I did with Joe.

0:42.0

Oh, you know what it is? Now, here's what... you heard a podcast that I did with Joe.

0:42.8

Oh, you know what it is?

0:44.0

Now, here's what you, I have to give the shout out.

0:46.1

I have to give the shout out now.

0:47.2

It's, it's Phil Koster.

0:48.6

He's a listener of both podcasts,

0:50.4

and he always feeds me these awesome ideas and awesome guests.

0:53.0

Well, thanks, Phil.

0:55.0

Yeah, thanks, Phil.

0:57.0

Okay, so I figured we might as well start off with this episode

1:00.0

about kind of who you are, how'd you get interested in bugs, and how did it lead you to being

1:05.1

the author of a book about them?

1:07.5

It's quite the meandering journey, to be honest with you, Kevin.

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