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Simple trellis for green beans

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Harvesting seeds from your groceries

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

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What squash climb the best?

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concerns with using cardboard/newspaper as a mulch

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Seeds Have Gone Places!!

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Easiest Vegetable to Grow

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sweet potato propagation and harvest!!!

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Ideas for Trellis Gardening

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

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what is permaculture?

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Yes, you may

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Growing Grapes Naturally

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Garden Failures...

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How Many Of Each Plant To Grow As A Percentage Of Total Calories

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Great big thread of Harvest photos!

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What died in your new gardens? so far...

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Creating an Edible or Medicinal Garden for Your Use and for Butterflies to Enjoy

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Favorite easy ways to make garden beds? Here's mine using mulch and potatoes!

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Seeds Have Gone Places!!

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Ideas for Trellis Gardening

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Permaculture Victories: tell your stories

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Best Crops for a Survival Garden?

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How to overcome the weeds without the black tarp method? What would Sepp Holzer do?

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Cooking Fall Decor pumpkins/squash

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Fall Decor Pumpkins/squash that are excellent eating

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What silly thing can't you grow?

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Tired of slow soil building, really going to invest this year.

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Your 2021 garden - what grew well? What will you do differently next year?

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Starting the new growing season!

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Breaking up clay is hard to do

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A Garden for Baby to Explore

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What was your favorite new thing you planted this year?

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Squash growing experience

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Ergonomics of making cattle panel arches

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How to discourage neighbors from damaging our plants on the property line?

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Soggy garden area. Solutions? Pond possibilities?

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mostly male flowers on my winter squash

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Any ideas for NOT ugly grow lights for house plants?

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Outdoor Classrooms: A Handbook for School Gardens by Carolyn Nuttall and Janet Millington

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Rust and steel

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Experiments in Starting Pepper Seeds

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Ideas to warm the soil for high altitude? (Thought I saw post about using a tarp)

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Raised bed liners (natural or nontoxic?)

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Beautiful beginnings

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Austrian Winter Peas

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Plant vegetables based on weed indicators?

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Samurai Seed Saver Improvised Seed Packet

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Harvesting seeds from your groceries

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Benefits of growing potatoes from true seed.

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Edible Paradise by Vera Greutink

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My transition from Conventional to Permaculture/Organic Practices in suburbia!

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do peat pots inhibit root growth?

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Indoor Organic/Permaculture Plants - Discussion Thread

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Beginner's question - second season of no dig

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For Seed Germination Dates by Zip code... For Both Spring and Fall Crops. Follow this link...

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Origami Newspaper Pots

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What silly thing can't you grow?

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Creating a habitat for wildlife?

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Know Why Chitting Potatoes and How

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A Garden for Baby to Explore

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I'm going Permie - What can I do during Year 1?

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My Grandma is new to gardening, here's what we're doing.

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Garden From Scratch - ALL ADVICE WELCOME!

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It's the most wonderful time of the year! (Or one of them at least)

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grains and pseudograins

A grain that is easy to grow and easy to process/harvest

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books

Seed Libraries: And Other Means of Keeping Seeds in the Hands of the People by Cindy Conner

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Can you use teas in buried clay pitchers/ollas? And a few other questions about clay pots.

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Gardening New Year's resolutions (funny)

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Indoor plant fertilizing- PPM nitrogen vs label on the box?

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books

Edible Perennial Gardening by Anni Kelsey

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