What's going on everyone? Kevin here from Epic Gardening. We're back with

Jessica Wallister, the author of attracting beneficial bugs to your garden a

natural approach to pest control. We've gotten into quite a bit already and I think we have another

doozy episode for you guys because this is a really interesting topic and this has to do with

fall garden cleanups.

I know that I for sure have done episodes on the past of

checklists for fall or things that you might want to consider doing for fall

and looking at the fall garden and the garden itself through the lens of

pollinators beneficial bugs predatory insects it might change my advice on that my

practice on that and so I'm really excited to have

Jessica here to kind of educate all of us on what we're really doing when we are

cleaning up the fall garden.

Hi Kevin, how are you?

I'm doing great.

Good. Well I do hope what I'm going to say here changes your mind about cleaning up your

garden. And I'll start by saying that as a horticulturist for many years I taught at Phipps Conservatory

and Botanic Garden here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I taught a class called

how to put your garden to bed for the winter.

And I showed slides, if you might remember slides, right?

This is free PowerPoint days and I would show

images of you know gardens that were everything was cut down every leaf was

raked out the roses were wrapped in burlap and it was like, I like to say it was a

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