Welcome back my friends to the epic gardening podcast this week is all about

solving problems in the garden. Believe it or not if you can solve the problems the plants sort of just grow themselves, or at least that's been my experience, and we'll

see if it's the experience of our guests today. We have Susan Mobile Hill back on the show.

This is your second time on, Susan, And you're the author of a new book.

You also have the Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook,

but your new book, The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook,

is out pretty soon here,

so thanks for coming on.

Well thank you very much for having me Kevin it's nice to be back.

Yeah it's been a while I think you were on sometime in

2021 maybe yes Yes. Yeah, yeah well congrats on the second book. I love the theme we were just

talking around your books it's helping people solve problems which to me that is what stops

someone from gardening in the first place yeah absolutely and I want folks

to know that gardening is such a joy, but if something comes along, I'm going to give some tips on how to deal with those problems and you know once you start learning about different types of problems that might come up,

you're going to be a much more successful gardener.

Yeah, I agree.

I think it's the knowledge and understanding that then leads to the application.

I know today we're talking about avoiding a problem in the first place.

Best practice is to keep your veggie plants healthy.

I'm curious what makes your top list because I think you see

a lot of different recommendations go around.

Right. So, you know, I thought it would be a great way to start with this because, you know,

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