4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
One of the best hacks for 100% pest prevention, floating row covers are a must in my fall garden. Are you using them?
Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening
My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, will be out May 7, 2019. If you pre-order the book and forward your receipt to [email protected], I'll send you a free pack of heirloom, organic seeds from one of my favorite seed suppliers!
Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening
Shop Epic Gardening
I'm carrying Birdies Garden Products raised beds, the ones I use exclusively in my front yard garden. They're a corrugated Aluzinc steel, powder-coated raised bed designed to last a lifetime. Buy Birdies Raised Beds at my online store.
Follow Epic Gardening
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. I hope you are having an awesome day |
0:06.9 | And I hope the day will become more awesome after listening to this because this episode is a great one if you've been struggling with late summer |
0:14.8 | early fall pests or really struggling with pests at all. But before we get into |
0:20.0 | that we have to read our podcast review of the day from Sprout Daddy, |
0:26.0 | 0. 128. I love that name. I found this podcast looking for something that wasn't |
0:30.4 | super long and had great information. After the first few episodes I was hooked, I have since then bought the Epic Gardening book, |
0:36.2 | Side note amazing, thank you for the support, and have been busy with all the information |
0:39.7 | and ideas that are in the book as well as the podcast. |
0:41.8 | Keep up the great work and thanks for the awesome information. |
0:44.0 | Well, thank you so much for that review, |
0:47.0 | Sprout Daddy, I love your name. |
0:50.0 | And thank you for the support on the book as well, |
0:52.0 | guys. If you'd like the book it's called |
0:53.2 | field guide to urban gardening and it is on amazon or signed copies are available on my store |
0:58.0 | at shop that epic gardening.com today we are talking about the amazing device known as a floating row cover. |
1:08.0 | It's kind of a weird name. |
1:09.0 | I don't know why they put the word floating in there, it makes it sound very magical but basically what this is it is woven |
1:15.6 | plastic polyester or polypropylene usually it is a plastic material and we place it over our plants to block pests and act either as a wind break or as a way to retain heat while still allowing water through, while still allowing air through and while still allowing of, the most important input of all, sunlight. |
1:37.0 | So my favorite use of this because I do not have to deal with keeping heat in, in fact, sometimes |
1:42.2 | I wish it was a little cooler in my zone is for pest control. |
1:46.9 | The number one pest I struggle with and longtime listeners know this is the case is the |
1:51.9 | imported cabbage worm, cabbage looper, any of these |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Epic Gardening, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Epic Gardening and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.