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seeds and breeding

Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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organic

Permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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fruit trees

A lot about apples!

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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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apples

Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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perennial vegetables

The great big thread of sunchoke info - growing, storing, eating/recipes, science facts

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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beans

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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lawn

how do you change your grass ph without new soil

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plants

Reforestation - Growing trees in arid, barren lands - by Seeds and Clay cubes (no watering)

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beans

Simple trellis for green beans

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seeds and breeding

Profoundly Promiscuous and Totally Tasty Tomato Project

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forest garden

Food forests, climate change, and who's going to eat!

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propagation

Judith's garden plans, records, results, hopes.....

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gardening for beginners

Victory Gardens! How-to, what to grow, and so much more!

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seeds and breeding

Landrace Gardening

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permaculture

Is anyone really doing permaculture?

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composting

composting wood chips with chicken litter and fungi

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hugelkultur

Herbal Hugel Spiral of Randomness!

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gardening for beginners

Ideas for Trellis Gardening

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apples

Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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gardening for beginners

Victory gardens, 2026 version: what are your plans?

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grains and pseudograins

Geoff Lawton says grain is not really worth the while - what are your thoughts?

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vines

How did medieval peasants do it?

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house plants

Monstera, to slice or save?

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composting

Ways to combat higher fertilizer prices and sustaining ourselves in the long run.

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nuts

Hazelnuts, when do you pick, and how do you store 'em?

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Year 4

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flowers

What flowers do Bees love to pollinate?

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soil

Improving a steep slope with no access for diggers

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plants

neighborhood bamboo patch

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composting

What is Composting?

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composting

Are keyhole gardens really permanent?

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perennial vegetables

Perennials, the gift you can keep giving

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root crops

please share ideas for growing BIG sweet potatoes, several pounds per plant

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urban gardening

Homesteading in Cities

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trees

Early Tree Leaf Drop?

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organic

Help with non plastic raised bed liner

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beans

why aren't my scarlet runner beans setting beans?

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gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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cover crops

Small cover crop experiment.Parsnip, cow peas, sunflower, fennel, silphy, salsify

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cover crops

Cover cropping with Medicago Arabica or Speckled Medock

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seeds and breeding

Stratification: Not my idea of a good time... unlesssss....

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Year 4

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flowers

Crazy for Cosmo's

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plants

Show me your chiles

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flowers

What flowers would be good for flowering tea?

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flowers

Post your flowers!!! Native or non-native :D

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flowers

Zany for zinnias

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composting

Straw is helping keep my worm bin from drying out

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dynamic accumulators

Putting "bad" "weeds" to good use

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berries

My Goumi flowers, but isn't producing any fruit

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lawn

Permies Poll: How do you mow your lawn?

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biochar

My dog eats my biochar

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biochar

Using biochar heat for other uses

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greening the desert

Can you make rain with permaculture?

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woodland

Planting Timber for Future Generations

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plants

Ginger Flower?

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biochar

Biochar-getting more participation

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gardening for beginners

How could a Permie deal with Voles?

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gamcod

GAMCOD 2025: 200 square feet; Zero degrees F or colder; calories cheap and easy

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nuts

Protecting my nuts

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permaculture

Blight

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greening the desert

As drought scorches England, one farm stays green - herbal leys and regenerative farming

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organic

Permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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propagation

Judith's garden plans, records, results, hopes.....

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fruit trees

No lemons on my 5 year old trees zone 9b

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soil

Woodchip Study

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gardening for beginners

Pepper seed blues - How to grow peppers from seed?

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polyculture

The Duke It Out polyculture (z7b)

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seeds and breeding

I grew several chile pepper plants next to each other -- seed question

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cover crops

Oats as a cover crop?

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seeds and breeding

Is there an open pollinated selection of candyland tomato?

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plants

Which "weed" do you dislike the most?

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plants

Echinacea success!

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permaculture

Favorite plant and the one you wish you could grow

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nuts

Hazelnuts, when do you pick, and how do you store 'em?

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grains and pseudograins

Oikos Neosinte -- sweet corn + teosinte hybrid

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trees

Bigleaf maple bark and others for fiber

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urban gardening

Year-Round Gardening in Zones 9–11: Strategies for Seamless Transitions and Abundant Harvests

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composting

Bokashi Stank Problem, How to Clean Out the Bin?

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gardening for beginners

Cold Stratification for the Total Novice

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plants

Bees In The Garden

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berries

Preserving Local History...In Blackberry Form

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berries

sumac and its uses

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