The Garden Question

The Garden Question


096 – Planning for Your Successful Vegetable Garden - Susan Mulvihill

February 09, 2023

Growing organic vegetables is Susan Mulvihill’s passion.

She has learned many lessons from her consistent gardening of 5 acres in Spokane, Washington with her husband Bill. Their large raised-bed garden yields some mighty fine edible crops.

Always curious and researching answers to their garden challenges. Susan loves sharing her findings through numerous outlets.

Her newest book The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook promises to be another best seller. The book will help you identify and manage diseases and other common problems on edible plants.

It is a great companion for her best seller The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook. She is also the co-author of the Northwest Gardener’s Handbook.

Susan and Bill’s Garden has been featured on the popular public television program, “Growing a Greener World” (episode 809 and 1202), hosted by Joe Lamp’l.

Helping other gardeners be successful has driven Susan to produce and host over 400 episodes on her weekly YouTube channel Susan in the Garden.

She is the longtime garden columnist for the Sunday edition of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington.

Been a Spokane County Master Gardener for over 20 years and is a nationally known Garden Speaker.

Her website can be found at SusansintheGarden.com and contains resources for organic pest control along with many other guides designed for gardening success.

Susan has been featured previously on The Garden Question Podcast in episode 047 - Developing Your Battle Strategy for This Year’s Bug Wars