Garden writer and educator Susan Mulvihill discusses how to organically control some of the most challenging insects in the vegetable garden. You'll learn all sorts of tips for keeping ahead of cucumber beetles, Japanese beetles, squash bugs, and squash vine borers. You'll also find links lower in this description for information on varieties of disease-resistant cucurbit family crops (cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, summer squash and winter squash) as well as additional information from research-based sources on why Japanese beetles traps aren't a viable alternative for controlling them.

Susan gardens in Spokane, Wash. While most of this region is in hardiness zone 6, her garden is in a microclimate, making it zone 5b. She is an #epicgardeningambassador for @epicgardening. To receive a 5% discount off all items in the Epic Gardening shop, just go to https://shop.epicgardening.com/ and use Susan's special code of SUSAN5.

You can order signed copies of Susan's newest book, The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook, by sending her an email at [email protected]. Her other book is The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, which is all about insects and how to deal with the damaging ones organically.

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Here are links to disease-resistant cucurbit family crop varieties that Susan referred to in the video:
https://www.reimerseeds.com/Departmen...
https://www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetable...
https://extensionpubs.unl.edu/publica...
https://www.reimerseeds.com/Departmen...


Here are the promised links regarding not using Japanese beetle traps:
https://extension.umn.edu/yard-and-ga...
https://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resour...
https://hortnews.extension.iastate.ed...
https://extension.umn.edu/yard-and-ga...