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Best of this year in gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

Is growing your own food a waste of time?

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

How could a Permie deal with Voles?

Growing Food on a Budget

What's your favorite "alternate" product of a garden plant?

What advice to take? Not?

Can you eat immature pumpkins?

What in the world is this? - lamb's quarters

2025 - What are your gardening failures so far this year?

Need squash ID, maybe Flat White Boer?

What can take care of itself and thrive regardless of surrounding "weeds"?

What to plant . . . IN JULY!!!???

Unexpected seeds

late planting of rhubarb?

Straw Bale Garden - Tips?

Watering with tap water

How did you guys do with this late frost/freeze?

Winter gardening, AKA winter harvesting

Tomato problem

planting peas

Raised Bed Garden

Do you need to be an expert?

How much to till?

How do I find value in a non-native and seemingly pointless ornamental plant?

How did plants evolve?

starter seeds pack for non gardeners?

A shoutout to bush and pole bean mavens

How much does gardening cost?

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

Heavy Clay Soil Amelioration

Peanuts - advice wanted

garden infested with squash bugs....

Help me plan a garden that thrives on neglect

Late corn planting for a last minute harvest?

Fertilizing the garden on a budget

Help with my peas please

first frost came early -- can I still save seeds?

Hydroponic tomatoes

Cardboard and mulch

Can I plant now?

Cold Stratification for the Total Novice

Will it hurt my plants to be near my central air outdoor unit?

Mulberries in my Orchard

Ants <Sneaky wee bug-er’s> the stealth pollinators

Water is the hardest element for a gardener to get right

Harvest before frost?

guerilla gardens 2025

Raised Beds In Mediterranean Climate

Tips/Tricks for transplanting trees and bushes

garden expectations and projects for 2025

Toona Ciliata Germination Seedling

Time to start planning the 2026 garden

cabbage seedlings are always leggy

Guide to easy and cheap pea microgreens, with lots of pictures

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Corn needs food?

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