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Tom and Darrin take a light-hearted look at gardening in the Four Corners and Southwest Colorado. Darrin is the CSU Extension Director in La Plata County and Tom runs GrowFoodWell.com. Each week, Garden Guys topics could include: growing a diversity of fruits and vegetables in a challenging climate; tips on seeding, planting, processing, and eating the bounty around us; garden disasters (and how to avoid them); and storing, canning, and preserving. Got a question for the guys?They might have the answers. If not, they'll make something up.
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Ugh. You get all excited to garden and in comes the pill bugs, pocket gophers, and mushrooms. Wait. Mushrooms? Listen to learn more - and maybe commiserate.
We filled out our permission slips and got to go on ANOTHER field trip! Tom and Darrin got to buddy-up and visit Scott Smith and his 2 year-old greenhouse east of Durango. Sampling ready-to-eat herbs, kale, carrots, and artichokes made us a bit envious of the early harvests, but not sure we're ready for all that work!
Paul Simon once wrote "...and touched the sound of silence". Well, we know that he wasn't applying compost to his garden because scientists are now able to "hear" all the bacteria and fungi that love that organic matter. The Garden Guys delve into microorganisms and the ways they help our bodies and our garden beds - and how those two are so similar.
Free advice and crisis mitigation. For plants. Learn what to look for with all those seedlings in the nurseries and farmers market. All the spring questions are flowing, and so are the sarcastic answers this week on Garden Guys.
One of our favorite places (Manna Garden in Durango) with one of our favorite people (Brooke Frazer)! The Manna Gardens are prepping for the upcoming seedling sale happening next weekend (May 10-12). She shares some of the varieties that will be available, as well as touching on the history of Manna and the wealth of services it provides for the local community.
When it comes down to very basics, it's all about the carbon. The building block of really, everything. The basis of much of life on the planet, and how it relates to the growth cycle, microorganisms in the soil and the planetary carbon cycle which is having some hiccups as of late.
Join the Garden Guys (Darrin and Tom) for the season opener! Spring is here and so are the chores. How do you procrastinate? What do you do first? And what’s your view on using Dibble Boards? Because you will definitely get ours! We all have work to do, so let’s just talk about it. Oh, and Darrin got worms! They may not be as hardy and strong as Tom's but they're learning (and so will you!) on how to start that worm bin.
As spring is just around the corner, we just wanted to step outside and admit that another planting season will soon be upon us. On this episode, Tom and Darrin discuss the finer points of “dialing-in” your early-season planning when it comes to new plant choices, and adjusting for mistakes from last year. We also go over details about our new favorite winter squash. And if that wasn’t exciting enough, the annual Garden Guys Seed Sale is Next Week! Wahooo. Let’s go!
We're back and better than ever! Well, maybe not 'ever', but we are back for one show right before Christmas hits. Darrin and Tom have interrupted their hibernation to come give you tips on LMG’s (Last Minute Gifts) as well as a list of other (somewhat related) garden subjects. Learn about last year’s failures and find tips for next year’s mistakes in the garden! And look for our upcoming seed sale at the Fairgrounds in March.
This week (our final weekly show for the 2023 growing season) we travel to The Old Fort at Hesperus to see what’s up with the dynamic ‘Farmers In Training’ program (FIT). We are guided by interviews with the Farmer Training Program Coordinator, Elicia Whittlesey, and the Education Garden Manager, Maggie Magierski. Several of the FITs chime in as well, giving us insight on what it’s like to be growing all the various vegetables at the farm. Such an inspiring visit.
We follow our show with the esteemed Jim Dyer with one full of banter of "crisp vs. cobbler", how do we get the job of naming vegetable varieties, and season extension techniques (winter is coming...)!
This week we have an in-depth conversation with Jim Dyer and his decades of work with Healthy Community Food Systems. We dive into some core issues regarding future sustainability in the ‘Greater San Juan Food Shed’. Join us for some good food for thought!
Yup. Tom and I create hypothetical stress situations, pretending we are gardeners on the prairie in the 1800s. Not sure if I want to be Charles Ingalls or Almonzo, but either way, we're nervous that we aren't going to survive for very long!
From Apricots to Wasps - and everything in-between - Darrin and Tom catch up on what’s happening in their gardens, what’s getting harvested, and what they’ll do differently next year (including the relocation of a pesky deer).
Probably my favorite show so far! Tom tries to calm me down after our office's efforts at the County Fair. Then we cover some of the decisions involved in deciding what to plant in smaller garden spaces. We culminate with an impromptu garden tour of Tom’s home garden.
It's Fair Time! County Fair is back for its 75th year here in La Plata County, and boy those squash...! This week we delve into the mystery of Cryptobiosis, the fascinating process of‘pausing’ a living organism. Darrin’s tomatoes have also been put on permanent pause for the season, with no chance of cryptobiosis. Which leads us, inevitably to the discussion of weather. And whether or not Tom should have camped up high in a lightning storm. (strictly as a sacrifice to the weather gods).
Well, if 1 show on the heat wasn't enough... We have some solutions, some laments, some salves, and a positive outlook (which helps). We also have some ideas of how to plan for success in our gardens in a hotter future.
Darrin and Tom preach the importance of getting your garden soil tested and then walk you all through how to read it. We also cry (and sneeze) while discussing these very odd temperatures and the prolific pine pollen season we are encountering.
We dig into the enormous bag of email questions and try to answer a few (at least the easy ones). Growing in containers, how to read a seed packet, and doth thou inoculate thy beans and peas?
This week the Garden Guys had a site visit to Beet Street Farm in the Animas valley north of Durango. Brian & Stacey Petrie, and Chad Goodale let us in on some of the details of running a local farm. The good, the challenging, and the ugly garlic…
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