What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

podcast. Today is January 2nd of 2018. Happy New Year once again. Hope

you're having a wonderful kickoff to the new year. I know that I am. Yesterday I had some

Arugula from the garden mixed with a little lemon, salt, pepper, and shaved Parmesan.

Wonderful Arugula salad. Give that a try. If you have a lot of Arugala, that's a quick tip.

It is a one, two, three, four, five, five ingredient, salad that tastes absolutely delicious.

Actually, there's also olive oil, so olive oil, arrugala, salt pepper, lemon, and parmesan.

Six ingredient salad, taste absolutely delicious.

And Arrugal is quick and easy to grow.

So give it that a try.

But that is not what we're talking about

today on the podcast. Today we're going to talk about scale insects. So all about scale insects,

how to get rid of them, how to identify them. But before we do that, we are going to mention Garden Maker Natural is the sponsor of the epic gardening podcast so what they do they make natural organic fertilizers

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about scale insects. So how do you get rid of them?

I know that I have a bird's nest fern in my well now it's in my compost pile but

rest in peace it was in my room and I was enjoying it to its

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