Reducing Summer Pest Pressure in the Garden (The Easy Way)

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🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In today’s episode, we dive into a summer gardening classic: how to manage insect pressure without chemicals, using simple, natural and organic pest control strategies you can start implementing today. For more information on organic pest control, check out our blog post here: https://homesteadingfamily.com/garden-pest-control/ In this episode, we cover: 🌿 Seasonal chit-chat: What’s thriving in our North Idaho garden: garlic scapes, raspberries, Napa cabbage, red currants, hops, asparagus,...

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0:49.0	slash podcast dash farm tour hey guys this is josh and caroline Carolyn with homestating family and welcome to this week's episode
0:57.6	of the pantry chat food for thought.
1:00.1	This week we're going to be talking about a common issue out in the garden in the middle
1:06.2	of the summer, which is insect pressure, pest pressure in the summer garden.
1:11.6	Almost a challenge always, those are not the right words, but a challenge all the time for just
1:17.3	about everybody at some point in the year.
1:20.2	Definitely.
1:20.8	So we're going to be talking about the easy kind of passive ways to deal with them somewhat naturally, definitely natural organic ways.
1:31.4	And that's, I know that's a struggle for a lot of you out there.
1:34.2	It is.
1:35.2	So we'll be diving into that in just a minute.
1:37.4	But first, some chit chat.
1:39.8	Yeah.
1:40.4	What if you go first.
1:43.4	So what have you been up to? What have you been up to?
1:44.9	What have I been up to?
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