The Garden Guys are digging into a topic that’s growing faster than mistletoe takes over a tree: artificial intelligence. We’ll explore what AI actually is, what it isn’t (no, it can’t weed your garden… yet), and how it might show up in the gardening world. We’ll also talk about the limits of AI, why it still can’t replace dirt-under-the-fingernails experience, and how gardeners can use technology as a helpful tool rather than letting it run the whole garden bed. If the robots start coming for your tomatoes, turn your computer off. Immediately. Then go outside.

Happy Thanksgiving to all you gardeners, farmers, and food geeks out there! Yes, the Garden Guys are still alive! Darrin and Tom are on another site visit this week with Jude Schuenemeyer, co-founder of MORP (Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project), and we were lucky enough to catch an earful of wonderment on all things' apples. So much so, that we have a special 1-hour episode for the holiday season. If you appreciate apples and history in the southwest, join us on a journey through time with Jude on MORP and orchards in Montezuma County.

This is a special one. Tom and Darrin love site visits (think: field trips without the sack lunch) and we go visit a special gem just outside of Durango. But as you will hear, it's not just about the garden; we feel the family, the history, the generational romance of what growing your own food can mean. Who knows, after listening you may feel the Italian sun on your face!

After waxing poetically about the present environmental state of affairs, we get deeper into the multiple layers of growing alliums. That magical, healthy family of plants that support our cooking and immune systems. We go over some details on several plants from the allium group, including bulbing onions, bunching onions, leeks, garlic, chives, and shallots. They all grow well in the four corners, and you should try to grow at least two varieties. Let's go allium!

HOT damn we're back! Ever feel like you are trying to garden while attending Burning Man? Well, that's what it was like trying to grow some veggies here in the SW corner of the state this summer. Hot. Dry. Windy. Grumpy. Those are our adjectives - what are yours? Oh, and we talk about fences - Darrin took his (275 foot) fence down and invited all the town deer to their front yard; Tom had bears climb over his, for the first time in 25 years. All for the love of gardening - oh joy you carrot, oh joy!

Everyone still have their fingers? Let's hope so, 'cause there's weedin' to be done! We compare present day gardening to what it was like in 1776 when this whole experiment got started.Many garden varieties have carried through unchanged, but our collective cultural involvement in growing food has been altered dramatically. Tom and Darrin also have a “whine fest” and then suggest options for the next month while they’re away.

All about rain. Visualize it. So many benefits. An encore edition from June of 2022: what can you do to direct that rain as it falls on your garden? Why is rain so beneficial? And for all of us that will get rain, it can also come as a frozen package of hail. Indiscriminate, soulless hail thrashing a garden. Take the good with the bad, but visualize moisture in your future.

It's June, and it's hot. And not just outside. Darrin's house registered 89 degrees at 5pm, which only means one thing: he's cranky.

Fortunately, we give some ideas on how to get those plants through the rough month, as we all start looking north and west for those summer monsoons. And just for you all and those summer cocktail parties: the history of food through the B.C. years - now you can really wow your friends!