Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast.

Today Susan Mobile Hill is back, Master Gardener out of Spokane, Washington, author of multiple

books actually, her upcoming book is called The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, and

if you've been listening to this week, you know that's what we've been talking about.

It's out April 6th, so go ahead and check that out in the podcast description.

And speaking of the podcast description, that's where you're going to find links to anything

we mentioned.

Susan has a website, she's got a YouTube channel with 300 plus videos, so I recommend

you also check those out and throw a subscription her way.

Okay, Susan, we talked about a lot of things in the world of pests, something that I remember

reading back when I was reading, you know, PDFs from California State Extension, when I was

first learning IPM, I saw it everywhere, and I was like, what is this?

It sounds very fancy and technical, it really isn't when you break it down, right?

That is absolutely correct.

So when I wrote my book, one of the things I really wanted to emphasize was how we need

to be really observant in our gardens so we can spot problems early on, and then give

some thought as to how we want to deal with them.

So one of the best tools to use is called Integrated Pest Management or IPM, and it is a systematic

approach to dealing with plant damage when it arises.

So I mentioned in a previous podcast that monitoring your garden on a regular basis is huge when

it comes to being a successful gardener.

All you need to do is grab a cup of coffee, maybe a glass of wine depending upon the time

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