Letting Go of Pest “Control”

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Jacques and Kevin consider their encounters with powdery mildew, how it might crop up regardless of prevention measures, and why their gardens aren’t subject to pest pressure this year. They ponder the benefit that comes when control is relinquished. EG shop homepage: https://growepic.co/3s2ByEQ EG book collection page: https://growepic.co/3OCYKky EG homesteading book: https://growepic.co/3DVSdwt Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, and Jacques) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the beat, last time we were talking about summer and what we've learned
0:09.4	and what we've changed maybe a little bit and I wanted to talk a little bit about disease
0:13.0	and pest pressure because I feel like it's getting better every year for some things
0:19.9	for sure.
0:20.9	Like for instance, powdery mildew seems to be a lot less prevalent this year than I am
0:26.7	at least used to.
0:28.2	I'll say this for me, powdery mildew is pretty damn prevalent in the front yard garden
0:34.2	in the birdhouse gourd and the winter squash but also it's been a long time like those
0:38.8	are actually coming to maturity.
0:40.6	So my perspective on powdery at least in our region is like it's going to be there no
0:44.5	matter what and the weaker the plant gets the more susceptible it is and if I'm looking
0:48.8	at the end of maturity on the squash, okay well it's going to be there and I have like
0:52.8	12 birdhouse gourds hanging so I'm not too worried about it but I would say for me what
0:57.2	I've noticed is my pest pressure is way down.
0:59.4	My disease, I'm still seeing like even a little powdery creeping up the base stems of my
1:04.3	tomatoes.
1:05.3	That's true, actually I have seen that out.
1:06.3	Which is frustrating to see because I really, like I plan my tomato garden out this
1:11.6	year in such a way specifically just to avoid disease.
1:14.6	It wasn't even anything else.
1:15.8	Yeah.
1:16.8	Like all other design was put to the, you know, the backburner.
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