This week the garden guys came back all rested from their vacation and all they can do is complain about pests and failures in the garden.  But really this episode is about ‘Pivoting’ from early summer garden failures to replanting in bare spots to feel better about the rest of the summer. 

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…

Just kidding. We discovered nothing, but do give some good ideas on how to manage. PLUS: another Garden Guys department - Mistakes Garden Guys Make (MGGM) and our inquiries into artificial intelligence.

Tom and Darrin sneak out of the studio to go visit a new(er) gardener's backyard where we find worms, onions, and corn transplants, oh my!

Two good news stories from the Garden Guys Good News Department (second left in the basement, by the boiler): Colorado’s ‘Right to Repair’ bill passes and why dandelions are so helpful. Plus we pontificate on why growing one's food helps feed the soul at the same time it feeds one's belly.

The Garden Guys discuss facing the garden tasks of spring, and how one of the best starting points is choosing the right crops for our growing season length here in the Mountain West.

So many questions this week…. starting seedlings under lights, replacing peat moss with coir, ‘air-pruning’ with soil blocks, and have you ever tried Trombone squash?

Tom and Darrin get their Zen on, pontificating about insects, diversity in the garden, letting things go, and even throwing out some made up words like procrastgardening and procrastplanting