Having been in the garden business (academic, commercial, and nonprofit) for over four decades, I’ve had the great privilege to learn from, share with, and debate an awful lot of smart and experienced gardeners. But there’s a new force on the lecture circuit so I decided to pull on my John Henry of Horticulture hat and go toe-to-toe with an artificial intelligence service to see what would happen.

The set up.

I asked my new AI colleague (I’ll call him Bob) to answer a few common garden questions. And I followed up his response with a few of my own thoughts.

Paul Cappiello: What got you interested in gardening?

Bob : “That’s a lovely question — and one that often gets to the heart of why people stay in this field.

For me, the spark came from spending time outdoors as a kid. I remember

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