Jeff Gillman

Jeff Gillman was born in Southeastern Pennsylvania and spent the first years of his life living on a small orchard in the then rural setting of Pughtown, Pennsylvania.He attended Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, and earned his masters degree in entomology and hisdoctorate in horticulture from the University of Georgia.An assistant professor in the department of HorticulturalScience at the University of Minnesota, Jeff teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in nursery management. He also conducts research and gives talks the use and abuse of pesticides.Throughout his professional career, Jeff has published numerous papers and articles on subjects that range fromhow plant hairs affect mites and using soluble silicone to combat plant diseases; to using lime in containers and how to control deer.Jeff loathes information that is passed out without concern for the consequences. Hearing self-proclaimed experts spouting things such as feeding syrup to plants gets him so fired up that he decided to do the research on all those common household remedies and write the tell-all book.When not teaching, conducting research, or participating in numerous master gardener programs in Minnesota and nearby states, Jeff likes to spend time with his daughter who involves him in her slug hunting and slug control research. Together they test lint, eggshells, coffee grounds, and other top-shelf ingredients. "But", says Jeff, "that's another book".