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Seed saving, seed exchange, where to buy seeds, plant breeding, and propagation.

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Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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Auto-Hybridizing Tomatoes

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Landrace Gardening

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Potato Onions from true seed - grow journal

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Breeding for dew collection, or my experiments with dryland farming

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The purity of seed - what I realized at Seedy Saturday when I talked about kale

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Seeds, seeds everywhere . . .

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Mendel's peas - what varieties work?

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Turning Wild Grasses into Grain Crops

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Tomato Breeding - F1 hybrid Habrochaites Grow Journal

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Breeding Localized Varieties of Sweet Potatoes

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Saving your own seed

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Tell Us About Your Local Seed Swaps

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Hybrid and true-to-type seed questions

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Landrace Seed Saving and Chemicals

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Changing the world by getting back to direct seeded gardening

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How I Fold seed Envelopes

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dehybridizing hybrids - I invite you to join me

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Plant Breeding For Human Scale Farming

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Perennial sweet pea - wide cross to create edible perennial pea possible?

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Potato Onions from true seed - grow journal

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Tomato Breeding - F1 hybrid Habrochaites Grow Journal

21 replies 21 6

Landrace Seed Saving and Chemicals

21 replies 1 6

Changing the world by getting back to direct seeded gardening

36 replies 2 2

How I Fold seed Envelopes

9 replies 5 1 5

Plant Breeding For Human Scale Farming

16 replies 3 4

Cheap Seed Potatoes/Potatoes from the Store

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Black gold bean

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Desert asparagus seed.

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Be ready for Spring! (source for heirloom organic seeds from Russia)

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AVAILABLE: Sandhill and Mirabelle plum seeds from Oregon

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Air Layered Figs

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Alternatives for Cold Stratification?

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Cucumbers

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I need help with growing healthy watermelons

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Seedling Thinning Philosophy? ( Weak vs Strong )

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Looking for Honey Locust seeds, I want the thorny variety!

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Seed saving and moving climates

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Want to buy - Osage Orange seeds

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Free tomato plants to gardeners in the Denver Metro area willing to help me with seed saving

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Where to buy fruit and nut trees in Canada

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In search of paw paw seeds

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Saving green bean seed

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Black gold bean

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trees

In search of nut seeds

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trees

would anyone like some honey locust pods/seeds?

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Be ready for Spring! (source for heirloom organic seeds from Russia)

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Changing the world by getting back to direct seeded gardening

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Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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Giant Ragweed seed

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How I Fold seed Envelopes

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All Things Apios Americana

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Potato Onions from true seed - grow journal

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Direct Seeding Tomatoes in ~100 Frost Free Days without season extension

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farm income

selling seeds

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Any leads on where I could acquire some Apios priceana seeds?

2 weeks ago 3 replies

plants

Own or Breed Unique Varieties/Cultivars?

2 weeks ago 51 replies [ 1, 2 ] 22 22

Mendel's peas - what varieties work?

2 weeks ago 22 replies 8 3

Tomato Breeding - F1 hybrid Habrochaites Grow Journal

3 weeks ago 21 replies 21 6

Beginning landrace gardening – questions about squash (bush or vine) and watermelon flesh color

3 weeks ago 8 replies 1

Landrace Gardening

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pollinators

Promiscuously Pollinated Tomatoes And The Bees That Make Them Possible

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For Sale: Lots of Seeds

1 month ago 9 replies 5

rockies

looking for thimbleberry shoots

1 month ago 4 replies 1

gardening for beginners

Seed Saving Procedures?

1 month ago 14 replies 1 6

AVAILABLE: Sandhill and Mirabelle plum seeds from Oregon

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plants

Maxima, Moschata, Pepo

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forest garden

Moving pawpaws north....

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Landrace Seed Saving and Chemicals

1 month ago 21 replies 1 6

Moringa Varieties?

1 month ago 2 replies

Kickstarter: Heritage Seed Storage

1 month ago 0 replies

plants

Siberian Pea Shrub seeds for sale from my forest garden

1 month ago 28 replies 1 6 4

looking for pistachio and almond seeds

1 month ago 0 replies

Breeding Localized Varieties of Sweet Potatoes

2 months ago 12 replies 1 4 5

Breeding for dew collection, or my experiments with dryland farming

2 months ago 43 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 11 3

survival

Seed Security

2 months ago 13 replies

resources: seeds, plants, honey, consulting, etc.

Good King Henry

2 months ago 10 replies 2

Want to buy - Osage Orange seeds

2 months ago 24 replies

Auto-Hybridizing Tomatoes

2 months ago 74 replies [ 1, 2 ] 54 19

energy crops

annuals for oil seeds

3 months ago 22 replies 2

wild harvesting

Jewelweed Protection from Poison Ivy?

3 months ago 5 replies 1 1 1

ISO horseradish root

3 months ago 4 replies

trees

Tree Lucerne Tagasaste/Cytisus proliferus Seeds & Seedlings

3 months ago 8 replies

resources: seeds, plants, honey, consulting, etc.

Seed swap via letter

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