Pest Control for Flowers

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Controlling pests, when growing flowers is tricky because they’re crops grown to admire and not to eat. Briana explains how she approaches it on her farm at Blossom and Branch. Connect With Briana Bosch: Briana Bosch is the owner of Blossom and Branch Farm, where she field-grows flowers as well as works to regenerate the wooded section of her property. Blossom and Branch Farm Facebook Instagram Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first 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. 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, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	As a flower grower, someone who is growing them for presentation may be even to sell at
0:18.7	market or as a bouquet, dealing with pests becomes kind of a tricky issue because those
0:24.3	are obviously things that you want to present really well.
0:26.5	So we have Branna Bosch back on the show from Blossom and Branch Farm and she has a farm
0:31.4	in Denver where she feels gross flowers.
0:33.6	So is this a significant problem for you?
0:36.4	I don't know really how severe pests are on flowers versus edibles, for example.
0:40.8	Yeah, I mean, like you mentioned, so because flowers are, I mean, it's not like a tomato,
0:46.5	like a tomato can still taste good, but have, you know, like a weird mark on it or something.
0:51.7	Most people expect their flowers to look good.
0:55.8	Or at least not be totally eaten by insects.
0:58.1	So it's definitely something that a lot of growers deal with.
1:02.0	And it's, yeah, I mean, just like gardeners, right?
1:04.8	There's like we get caught up in the presentation aspect of it, but there's more to it.
1:10.5	Yeah.
1:10.9	And I would imagine the way that we've just spoken about, you know, regenerative ag and flower
1:16.2	farming and more natives.
1:17.4	You certainly don't have like a spray and prey approach, right?
1:21.4	Yeah.
1:22.0	No, I think the number one question I get on our Instagram page is like, what do I do for X?
1:26.8	Like, what do I do for aphids?
1:28.6	What do I do for, you know, whatever?
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