County Fair Time!
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 livin...
12 Aug 202329min
The Hodge Podge
With all this heat (and little to no rain in the area), Darrin and Tom do a mid-season garden check-in. Can you plant citrus in the four corners? What can you still plant now? And also some background...
5 Aug 202329min
It's Hotter than...Part 2
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...
29 Jul 202329min
Field Trip II! SOIL Outdoor Learning Lab
We grabbed our snacks, water, and found our field trip buddy - off to the SOIL Outdoor Learning Lab at Riverview Elementary. Wow!
26 Jul 202329min
We're Back - and It's Hotter Than...
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 summe...
17 Jul 202329min
Soil Tests and Pollen Clouds
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 prol...
17 Jun 202329min
Q&A Grab Bag
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?
10 Jun 202329min
Beet Street Farm
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....
6 Jun 202329min
