What is up everyone?

Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast.

Jill McChi is back on the podcast.

She has her own podcast.

It's called The Beginners Garden Podcast, and her book is called Vegetable Gardening for Beginners.

We talked in the last few episodes about some different methods for trellising, soil, even aphid control. And now we're going to kind of go higher level

and talk about how to get a full harvest from your garden despite battling perhaps those aphids or perhaps that

septorial leaf spot all sorts of different pressures that can come onto the garden

and cut down your harvest and how to do that without spraying.

So I think that's immediately perking up my ears, Jill,

and I think a lot of beginners,

one of the most demoralizing things

is to have a nice healthy plant just get decimated

in a few days by a pest or a disease. and so I would love to hear some of your techniques for this.

Yeah, and this is something that I've come upon by accident and I'm going to start with the suggestion here that nobody's going to want to hear and that is accept defeat from the beginning.

And the reason I say that, let me give you an example, when it comes to planting squash and zucchini in my garden I deal

with squash bine boar is usually the worst in my area but also squash bugs and

then it seems like lately we've been having issues with powdery mildew and it's one of those crops that it seems like it's beaster famine you have a ton of squash or you're battling every known thing going on with it right?, what I figured out by accident one year is I was

growing my squash and I noticed that the squash that I succession planted and I

planted later in the season,

never got the squash vine borer.

And so my thought was, what if the fact

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