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Simple trellis for green beans

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Harvesting seeds from your groceries

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concerns with using cardboard/newspaper as a mulch

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what is permaculture?

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Garden Failures...

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

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How do you keep the cats from shitting in your garden?

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Propagating Blood (cling) Peaches

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Shanleya's Quest: A Botany Adventure for Kids Ages 9-99 by Thomas Elpel

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Vertical fence gardening

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We have Monarch butterflies and caterpillars: Creating a Monarch Habitat

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Grow your own groceries 2 DVD set by Marjory Wildcraft

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What is the pH of lime?

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Cardboard mulch after 1 year

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Great big thread of Harvest photos!

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

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gardening for beginners

Podcast 043 - Gaia's Garden chapters foreword to 3

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Rhubarb: to seed or not to seed

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The Resilient Gardener by Carol Deppe

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Tips for the Ruth Stout method

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Vertical fence gardening

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We have Monarch butterflies and caterpillars: Creating a Monarch Habitat

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

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What do you do to minimize inputs in your annual garden?

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The Good Caterpiller - the butterfly caterpillar

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Seed Saving Procedures?

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My garden failed completely - help!

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gardening for beginners

No Dig Organic Home & Garden by Charles Dowding & Stephanie Hafferty

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Does this make sense? Mashup of gardening principles

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Flowers for North facing woodland clearing?

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Planting by Phenology (Natural Plant and Animal Cycles)

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HDPE liner for raised bed idea

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Taking cutting - for newbies

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Whats all the hubub about compost tea recipes?

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Starting gardens in a forested area

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Help Me Save My Garden (From Myself)

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Walking onions?

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Pumpkins-what would you do with these?

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Need Help with my Garden Plan Challenges - Drought, Grass and Rocks

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Push the Zone by David the Good

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Bumblebee Garden Project - Advice Please!

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Are sunchoke flowers edible?

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The Resilient Gardener by Carol Deppe

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Squash borers :(

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lawn

1st Timer Here, Need Your Help!

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dyeing

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

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First allotment, on weedy steep clay slope. Tips?

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

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HDPE liner for raised bed idea

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Seed Saving Procedures?

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Growing sunflower for seed (at 56N)

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Frost got us last night - What to do about squash and sweet potatoes?

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Building a rain garden from existing french drain

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Vertical fence gardening

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Walking onions?

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plants

Black nightshade?

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My garden failed completely - help!

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Are leaves always a good thing to rototill in?

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Producing on an Alaska south facing steep slope

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White spots on mint leaves

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What do you do to minimize inputs in your annual garden?

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Keyhole building ideas

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Five Amazing Ways to Freeze Leeks

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Growing Wild Grapes

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Help Me Save My Garden (From Myself)

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Starting gardens in a forested area

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Whats all the hubub about compost tea recipes?

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Reuse (compost) rototilled grass

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Hay Mulch (Ruth Stout) vs. Compost Mulch (Charles Dowding)

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To amend or not to amend soil

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Ongoing battle with ants.

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Solar greenhouse with hydroponics

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Soil building with hay

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Dale's hose watering techniques - Don't buy silly hose attachments

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New to Site, new to area, and somewhat new to vegetable gardening

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Nutrition in plants

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Is there a (tomato & cucumber) doctor in the house?

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dogs and cats

How do you keep the cats from shitting in your garden?

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How to convert pasture to garden without tilling?

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market garden

Garden Seeder Reviews

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Shrub Identification

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Taking cutting - for newbies

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Starting our raised annual bed

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Companion planting asparagus

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