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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?

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

Can you eat immature pumpkins?

What advice to take? Not?

Standing Stubble vs Chop and Drop

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

Need squash ID, maybe Flat White Boer?

Garden on this concrete, or remove all/some?

Why the duck cant I grow carrots!!!

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late planting of rhubarb?

Sun-jokes?

Watering with tap water

A Totally New Way Of Thinking

Fall Garden Prep, Fall Leaves

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

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planting peas

Raised Bed Garden

Do you need to be an expert?

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How much to till?

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How did plants evolve?

starter seeds pack for non gardeners?

A shoutout to bush and pole bean mavens

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Peanuts - advice wanted

garden infested with squash bugs....

Help me plan a garden that thrives on neglect

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Help with my peas please

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

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Zone 5B Guilderland NY - best time and seeds to plant in new garden early

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?

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guerilla gardens 2025

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