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gardening for beginners

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Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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Simple trellis for green beans

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

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Fall Decor Pumpkins/squash that are excellent eating

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Ideas for Trellis Gardening

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Easiest Vegetable to Grow

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Seeds Have Gone Places!!

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3 Sisters Garden, 2024, Year 2

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concerns with using cardboard/newspaper as a mulch

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growing, harvesting and using natural dye plants and other natural dye materials

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Yes, you may

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What squash climb the best?

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Eating bean leaves

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Garden Failures...

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what is permaculture?

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Permaculture Victories: tell your stories

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Cooking Fall Decor pumpkins/squash

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How to use fall leaves on your homestead

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We have Monarch butterflies and caterpillars: Creating a Monarch Habitat

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Getting ready for GAMCOD-(ish) in Portugal

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3 Sisters Garden, 2024, Year 2

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Help me figure out what to do with excess young garlic

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Cross Pollination and Seed Saving?

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Tomato death. Need to know why

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I have declared war on Bambi

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Is this worth the effort? (remediating a junk pile into a garden)

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How could a Permie deal with Voles?

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Hot Weather Watering?

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Sword Beans - trying them as an annual

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Help ID -- Amphibolips confluenta, spongy oak apple gall

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Composted vs Rotted

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Need squash ID, maybe Flat White Boer?

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Need an ID, greens with red stem

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Straw Bale Garden - Tips?

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Watering with tap water

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Unexpected seeds

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Saving sickly tomato seedlings, a mini case study.

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Purple Top Turnip - Cover Crop Potential?

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Intro seed selection for friends children

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Can you change the sex of grapes?

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Raised Bed Garden

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Turning Pasture into Garden... critique my plans :)

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Can I plant now?

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How could a Permie deal with Voles?

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berries

Strawberries - An underrated fruit?

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Unexpected seeds

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Tips/Tricks for transplanting trees and bushes

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North Texas - beginner garden suggestions?

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How To Propagate Coral Aloe From Pups

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3 Sisters Garden, 2024, Year 2

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Vegetable Orchestra

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Cold Stratification for the Total Novice

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garden expectations and projects for 2025

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Cardboard and mulch

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root crops

Growing daikon radishes

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Seed Snail Roll - Hype or Hope?

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Planting by Phenology (Natural Plant and Animal Cycles)

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Watering with tap water

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cabbage seedlings are always leggy

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plants

Rhubarb: to seed or not to seed

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guerilla gardens 2025

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Hot manure on dormant plants?

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Growing Dill from Seeds in Pots

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What can take care of itself and thrive regardless of surrounding "weeds"?

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Dealing with Voles and Moles

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Why did you start a garden?

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cover crops

Purple Top Turnip - Cover Crop Potential?

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Red Lady Dwarf Papayas

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Help with my peas please

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Fertilizing the garden on a budget

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starting my first garden indoors

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Do you need to be an expert?

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how we are starting seeds this spring!

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starter seeds pack for non gardeners?

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Pumpkin Question

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Winter gardening, AKA winter harvesting

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Need squash ID, maybe Flat White Boer?

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I want to grow trees in rocky desert soil in Phoenix, AZ.

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diatomaceous earth: how to use?

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apples

Protecting base of apple trees for winter?

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Gardening in a depression

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meaningless drivel

Fall Decor Pumpkins/squash that are excellent eating

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Starting from scratch on rocky, bouldery ground. Your thoughts on what I'm doing

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Images of the Edge Effect: share for teaching & education

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Papaver rhoeas - Grow, Care & Eat Corn Poppies

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