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Easiest Vegetable to Grow

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Seeds Have Gone Places!!

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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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We have Monarch butterflies and caterpillars: Creating a Monarch Habitat

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sweet potato propagation and harvest!!!

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what is permaculture?

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Yes, you may

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

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Growing Grapes Naturally

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

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Permaculture Victories: tell your stories

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Would like input on potentially drastic option for garden beds

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Death to scale bugs - help me brew up some organic death spray to save my citrus trees

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Green Cushaw and Illinois White Pumpkin freeze tolerance

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

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Biggest benefit of a no-till garden is...

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Rapid increase in fertility needed.

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Why it's always good to fact check...

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Garden tools for self sufficiency on rough land

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Plant ID My New Backyard

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Heat Mat for Seedlings - Help!

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First flowers of the year! (What pretty thing did you see in the garden today?)

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Potatoes, wood chips and compost

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Creating a Super Vigorous and Productive Pole Bean Landrace

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Worried about my warm season veggies

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Critical Path Gardening

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Beginning gardening class: What would you teach?

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New to propagating

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Is this a silly idea - worm corridor

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Not alfalfa? Plant ID Yellow Sweet Clover

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High Performance Gardening by Lynn Gillespie

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Death to scale bugs - help me brew up some organic death spray to save my citrus trees

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i need some gourds out of season by feb 19th '23 : P

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Accidental bed with shallow dirt

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Any ideas for NOT ugly grow lights for house plants?

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comfrey for mulch

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The Ultimate Guide to Soil by Anna Hess

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Walipini or underground greenhouse - actual experience

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Free Printable for Garden Planner

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Suggest Your Favorite: Bean(s)

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Honey suckle invasion

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Making new raised bed edges

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Ibc question

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Are succulent "food forests" a thing?

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stiltgrass as bedding for oyster mushrooms?

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earthing up potatoes - drying out issue

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How old is too old to begin?

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Food as houseplants?

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Corrugated steel garden beds

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Can I start seeds in composted manure?

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How to Grow Coral Aloe Succulent

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Plastic mulch advice

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Getting my garden going

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DIY potting/ starting soil

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What have you accidentally sprouted?

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Budget Saver - how to grow lettuce at home

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aquaponics

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Understanding Roots by Robert Kourik

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Calendula The amazing Flower

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How to Grow Marigolds

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Growing Comfrey

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Planting by Phenology (Natural Plant and Animal Cycles)

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How to save basil seeds

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Black bamboo hardiness

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The Wilderness Garden by Jackie French

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Getting a jump on spring...starting seeds

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zone 9 greenhouse idea

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Benefits of growing potatoes from true seed.

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Tips/tricks seeding baby green mixes

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Seed question -- can you plant birdseed?

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What can I do to stop bindweed (a wild morning glory)

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