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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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concerns with using cardboard/newspaper as a mulch

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3 Sisters Garden, 2024, Year 2

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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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Getting ready for GAMCOD-(ish) in Portugal

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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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Who is going to get their hands dirty this weekend?

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

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Hot Weather Watering?

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Question for all of you beginner gardeners

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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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Winter Squash Spacing

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Re-growing store bought veggies

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Composted vs Rotted

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Celebrating salads!

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Need an ID, greens with red stem

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Straw Bale Garden - Tips?

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Saving sickly tomato seedlings, a mini case study.

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oh gosh, where to begin now that we've already begun

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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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garden expectations and projects for 2025

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apples

Protecting base of apple trees for winter?

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3 Sisters Garden, 2024, Year 2

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Why did you start a garden?

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Gardening in a depression

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starter seeds pack for non gardeners?

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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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Seed Snail Roll - Hype or Hope?

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Images of the Edge Effect: share for teaching & education

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house plants

Food as houseplants?

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cooking

Help me figure out what to do with excess young garlic

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Winter gardening, AKA winter harvesting

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apples

Self Fertile Apples UPDATED: 144 Cultivars

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potatoes

What to do with a bag of sprouting potatoes

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Planting by Phenology (Natural Plant and Animal Cycles)

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Best bulk seeds for fall scatter/broadcast seeding?

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Managing Areas between Beds

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cow pots

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seeds and breeding

dehybridizing hybrids - I invite you to join me

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Weevil life cycle and corn seed long-term storage questions

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How much does gardening cost?

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snail trap

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All-in-One Permaculture Design App

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Evaluation of my raised bed menagerie.

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plants

Rhubarb: to seed or not to seed

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Planting a fall garden in zone 4

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kids

Intro seed selection for friends children

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potatoes

Growing potatoes -- methods and musings

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Straw Bale Garden - Tips?

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Apple trees cracking

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Planting flower bulbs in wood chips.

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Thinking about complete re-doing my gardens--Ideas?

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hugelkultur

How to find the type of hugelkultur bed that’s right for you

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Getting Started With Hugelkultur Beds

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Hydroponic tomatoes

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trees

Water quality at the tree farm

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Anyone buy late season clearance Bareroot Perennials, Trees, and Shrubs?

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soil

soil building with daikon radish

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Planting slightly crushed up radish seed pods from last year

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Hot manure on dormant plants?

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How do your organise your seed packets?

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