Every Garden Should Have Pests
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
We need to reframe how we view pests - they’re food for other organisms in the garden, not just things that destroy your plants.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to another awesome episode here on the |
| 0:16.9 | epic gardening podcast. Charles Malki is back, author of saving the world |
| 0:20.9 | with the home garden and also a degree in biology. |
| 0:23.7 | He's the plant expert for Ivy Organics, which is a gardening product company that I've just |
| 0:28.3 | started testing out some of their whitewashed products as well as their fertilizer. |
| 0:32.1 | We're going to talk a little bit |
| 0:33.1 | about fertilizing later on this week, but really discovered him on his |
| 0:36.7 | YouTube channel of the same name, IV Organic. So I recommend you check that out. |
| 0:40.9 | Charles today we're talking about pests, but in a different |
| 0:44.6 | angle than I think most people would. So I would love to kind of hear your idea. Why does every organic |
| 0:51.2 | garden have some or need some. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, thank you first Kevin and Epic Gardening |
| 0:57.7 | podcast for having me and to answer your question in regards |
| 1:01.9 | to why every garden should have pests and actually needs to have pests is if you can imagine for example the African savanna and on the savannah there's going to be you know |
| 1:15.1 | lions and tigers and cheetas and there's going to be all these predator animals but they're going to be feeding on the prey being the gazelle and the rabbits and all these other prey sort of animals. |
| 1:30.0 | And the goal with an organic garden is to have a balance between the predators and the prey on your property. |
| 1:37.0 | And if you eliminate the prey, for example, most people will take a look at the roses and they may spot an afin or two or 10 or 100 |
| 1:46.3 | aphids on you know the rose buds or some new growth happening on the roses and this |
| 1:50.4 | can apply also on their plums peaches apricots apples there's going to be bugs in an organic garden and that is actually the food for the predators that are there in your garden. |
| 2:01.5 | I'm going to have you name a couple of the predators. |
| 2:03.1 | What predators exist in organic garden? |
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