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Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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Is growing your own food a waste of time?

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gardening for beginners

victory gardens, 2026 version: what are your plans?

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gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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gardening for beginners

Weird thought: Is BIGGER better?

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gardening for beginners

Growing Food on a Budget

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gardening for beginners

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

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gardening for beginners

Why the duck cant I grow carrots!!!

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Whole-diet Garden Plan Feedback

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How to use dry sunflower stalks in my soil?

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gardening for beginners

Can you eat immature pumpkins?

12 replies 1

gardening for beginners

What advice to take? Not?

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gardening for beginners

Standing Stubble vs Chop and Drop

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gardening for beginners

planting peas

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

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gardening for beginners

Botched soil blocking

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gardening for beginners

Garden on this concrete, or remove all/some?

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gardening for beginners

Evening Solace Spiral- Has anyone tried something like this?

13 replies 4 6

gardening for beginners

LOST all my seeds

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gardening for beginners

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

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gardening for beginners

late planting of rhubarb?

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gardening for beginners

Sun-jokes?

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gardening for beginners

A Totally New Way Of Thinking

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gardening for beginners

Fall Garden Prep, Fall Leaves

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gardening for beginners

Growing rosemary from seed (it’s not as easy as it sounds)

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gardening for beginners

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

10 replies 3 1

gardening for beginners

Potato Towers

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gardening for beginners

Easy, Cheap, TEMPORARY Raised Gardens

13 replies 3 8

gardening for beginners

Tomato problem

15 replies 3 3

gardening for beginners

The Quilt Garden: A Labor Of Love

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gardening for beginners

Ye shall know them by their fruits

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gardening for beginners

Late corn planting for a last minute harvest?

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gardening for beginners

How much to till?

9 replies 1 5

gardening for beginners

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

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How did plants evolve?

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gardening for beginners

A shoutout to bush and pole bean mavens

17 replies 1

gardening for beginners

garden infested with squash bugs....

15 replies 1 4

gardening for beginners

Help me plan a garden that thrives on neglect

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gardening for beginners

All those lovely herbaceous plants!

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gardening for beginners

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

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gardening for beginners

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

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I have a dream---of new garden beds

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gardening for beginners

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

6 replies

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Mulberries in my Orchard

5 replies 1

gardening for beginners

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

4 replies 1 2

gardening for beginners

Water is the hardest element for a gardener to get right

5 replies 1 3

gardening for beginners

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

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gardening for beginners

Harvest before frost?

10 replies 1

gardening for beginners

Building a Raised Bed

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gardening for beginners

Raised Beds In Mediterranean Climate

6 replies

gardening for beginners

Toona Ciliata Germination Seedling

3 replies 3 1

gardening for beginners

Time to start planning the 2026 garden

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gardening for beginners

Garden Plan Swap!

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gardening for beginners

Creating Microbial "Nations"

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gardening for beginners

Permies Poll: Where do you source water for your garden?

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gardening for beginners

Potting on...root development

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gardening for beginners

Best Temporary Garden Setup

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Corn needs food?

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