What's going on everyone? Welcome back to Epic Gardening. This is Kevin and we're back with

Jessica Walliser, The Bug, Babe, attracting beneficial bugs to your garden, a natural approach to pest control that is her book highly suggest you guys take a look at it and today we're going to talk about the effect of spraying on your garden now certainly we can talk about the effect of maybe some

chemical pesticides herbicides etc but even even things like BT or some other

things that organic gardeners use very often and we've

recommended here in the podcast as well for certain pests in extreme scenarios

we're going to talk about what effect that really might have on the bug landscape in your garden.

So thank you for coming back Jessica.

Thanks very much Kevin once again for having me and just so everybody out there knows I did give him permission to call me the

bug babe he didn't just take that on his own and run with it so so anyway yeah you know

it's funny because people often think that when you go organic in your garden that you're doing all the right

things suddenly and you can spray you know those products without thinking twice because it says

do not you know that it doesn't harm beneficial on the label.

But the truth is that even organic control methods,

even squishing that pest with your hand,

even squirting it off of the plant with a sharp stream of water from the hose is you as a human being

putting yourself into what's called the predator and prey cycle which is a natural

cycle that exists in every undisturbed ecosystem around the world, across the globe

from the Arctic to the tropical rainforest. It's a system that's evolved to keep the good guys

and the bad guys, so speak in check and when we come in with

our spray can or our fingers and we get rid of those pests we're putting ourselves

in that natural predator and prey cycle in a place that we really don't belong.

And so even if you're using an organic spray, you're impacting that predator and prey cycle.

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