This is part 10 of Growing With AI, a documented season of learning, gardening, and AI collaboration. The rose bloomed today. Not pretty, not full, leaves rough, but a bloom nonetheless. Not a dramatic statement. Not a metaphor. The David Austin rose that spent the winter in my garage as a collection of dormant sticks, that... Read more
This is part 9 of Growing With AI, a documented season of learning, gardening, and AI collaboration. There are weeks in a project where everything that was planned starts happening all at once. April 16 was that week for the garden. The Eden Brothers shipment arrived with perennial roots and dahlia tubers I had ordered in... Read more
This is part 8 of Growing With AI, a documented season of learning, gardening, and AI collaboration. Somewhere in late April I stood in my kitchen and living room and counted. Four grow lights. Seven seed trays. Four dahlia pots on the windowsill. Two dahlia pots on the counter. A tray of gomphrena on the... Read more
This is part 7 of Growing With AI, a documented season of learning, gardening, and AI collaboration. I want to be honest about something before we get into the numbers. I spent $441.94 on seeds, bulbs, and perennial roots for a garden that had already cost me several hundred dollars the year before in plants... Read more
This is part 6 of Growing With AI, a documented season of learning, gardening, and AI collaboration. By April I had built something I didn t have a name for. It wasn t a prompt. It wasn t a workflow. It was closer to a relationship as weird as it sounds with a three-month running conversation with Claude... Read more
This is part 5 of Growing With AI, a documented season of learning, gardening, and AI collaboration. The Iowa Master Gardener Program has been running in Scott County since 1979. That is not a trivial fact. It means there are people in the Quad Cities who have been accumulating hands-on horticultural knowledge about this specific region... Read more
This is part of Growing With AI, a documented season of learning, gardening, and AI collaboration. I have driven past Wallace s Garden Center hundreds of times. It is literally five minutes from my house. It has been a Bettendorf institution for decades. The people who work there have been growing things in this specific soil,... Read more
This is part of Growing With AI, a documented season of learning, gardening, and AI collaboration. · Previously: Zone 5b Is Not Forgiving And That s What Makes It Interesting. I spend a lot of time telling teachers that AI is a scaffold, not a shortcut. The distinction matters. A shortcut takes you somewhere faster without... Read more
This is part of Growing With AI, a documented season of learning, gardening, and AI collaboration. Subscribe to follow along. Previously: I Killed My Garden Last Year. Here s What I Did Differently. ⚠️ A CORRECTION AND WHY IT MATTERS: You ll notice this post is titled Zone 5b, not Zone 6a. While researching resources for this... Read more
This is the first post in Growing With AI which is a documented season of learning, gardening, and AI collaboration across six threads. There s a particular kind of gardening failure that s hard to admit. It s not the dramatic kind but the early frost that wipes out tomatoes overnight, or the rabbit that destroys a whole... Read more