Choosing Organic Pest Control Products
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
If you’re going to choose an organic pesticide, you must understand the consequences of what you’ll be applying or spraying. Even though they’re organic, that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily good no matter what.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome back again to the Epic Gardening podcast. |
| 0:17.2 | Today is our final episode for now with Susan Mulvill, master gardener from Spokane Washington, |
| 0:23.4 | author of the upcoming book The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, out April 6th. |
| 0:28.5 | So make sure and check that out as well as some of her other resources in the podcast description. |
| 0:32.1 | So we talked yesterday, Susan, about IPM, integrated pest management, how to approach that. |
| 0:38.5 | And then we both sort of mentioned, yes, you can choose organic pest control products. |
| 0:42.9 | We both try to minimize that. |
| 0:46.1 | That being said, if you are going to elevate your pest control strategy to that level, maybe |
| 0:50.8 | you have something very serious at hand, a prized plant that you really want to be pristine. |
| 0:56.5 | How does someone start thinking about, okay, well, given that I'm going to do it, which |
| 1:00.1 | are the best ones that I should be buying? |
| 1:04.1 | Okay. |
| 1:05.1 | Well, in addition to helping gardeners identify vegetable garden pests either by seeing and |
| 1:10.6 | identifying the bug or looking at the damage they cause on plants, I also provide a lot |
| 1:17.0 | of options in my book for how to deal with them. |
| 1:20.4 | And some of the strategies are for keeping them away from your plants or outsmarting them |
| 1:24.8 | in some way, but others are organic products that will control the problem pest. |
| 1:31.6 | And I thought that we should talk about some of the products today, because unfortunately, |
| 1:37.2 | this is one of those good news, bad news situations. |
| 1:41.2 | The good news is week gardeners have so many organic pest control options now. |
| 1:46.8 | You know, it hasn't always been that way. |
| 1:48.6 | So it's always a treat to go to a garden center and see all of these organic products. |
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