This is the time of year when you are likely to see pests in your garden and even pest damage,

even if you don't see what pests are causing the problems.

I'm seeing it a lot on my Instagram feed in my Facebook group, The Beginners Garden Shortcut,

and I'm seeing it in my garden as well.

Good news, I've got a full podcast episode coming up in June

that talks about pesticides that you can use in your garden that are organic. And we're also

going to be talking about how to use them and when to use them and when not to. But if you're like

me, you may be going outside right now thinking, I need some answers.

The most common pest that I'm seeing in my garden personally is aphids.

And this is something that I have talked about at length.

Afids look really scary and they can get very overwhelming.

In fact, just a few nights ago I went outside and found my tomato plants covered

with them, but I'm not worried about it. In fact, I haven't had to treat for aphids in my garden

ever because I have a good and healthy beneficial insect population, and that starts with ladybugs,

which I found near my aphids just the same but the

few days before that there weren't any ladybugs near those aphids that's the thing is that a lot of

times these pest insect populations have to build up before your beneficial insects come to the

rescue and for that, I would suggest that

unless you're seeing some major damage going on with your plants, I would give it a little bit

of time. Now, I'm specifically talking about aphids because there are a lot of predators of

aphids in your garden, especially if you're gardening organically.

Now, other pests tend to be more of a problem, so it just depends on what you're dealing with.

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