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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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gardening for beginners

Is growing your own food a waste of time?

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gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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gardening for beginners

How could a Permie deal with Voles?

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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?

19 replies 5 6

gardening for beginners

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

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gardening for beginners

Can you eat immature pumpkins?

12 replies 1

gardening for beginners

What advice to take? Not?

8 replies 6

gardening for beginners

Standing Stubble vs Chop and Drop

15 replies 6

gardening for beginners

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

12 replies 6 6

gardening for beginners

Need squash ID, maybe Flat White Boer?

3 replies 4 3

gardening for beginners

Garden on this concrete, or remove all/some?

18 replies 1 8

gardening for beginners

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

14 replies 2 3

gardening for beginners

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

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gardening for beginners

Unexpected seeds

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gardening for beginners

late planting of rhubarb?

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Why the duck cant I grow carrots!!!

34 replies 2 6

gardening for beginners

Sun-jokes?

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gardening for beginners

Watering with tap water

9 replies 1

gardening for beginners

A Totally New Way Of Thinking

8 replies 1 1 3

gardening for beginners

Fall Garden Prep, Fall Leaves

23 replies 10 4

gardening for beginners

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

10 replies 3 1

gardening for beginners

Winter gardening, AKA winter harvesting

14 replies 5 7

gardening for beginners

Easy, Cheap, TEMPORARY Raised Gardens

13 replies 3 8

gardening for beginners

Tomato problem

15 replies 3 3

gardening for beginners

planting peas

7 replies 1 1 3

gardening for beginners

Raised Bed Garden

18 replies 1 4 5

gardening for beginners

Do you need to be an expert?

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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?

6 replies 2 4

gardening for beginners

How did plants evolve?

2 replies 1 5

gardening for beginners

starter seeds pack for non gardeners?

24 replies 1 2

gardening for beginners

A shoutout to bush and pole bean mavens

17 replies 1

gardening for beginners

The Quilt Garden: A Labor Of Love

6 replies 4 2

gardening for beginners

Peanuts - advice wanted

14 replies 5

gardening for beginners

How much does gardening cost?

6 replies 1 3

gardening for beginners

garden infested with squash bugs....

15 replies 1 4

gardening for beginners

Help me plan a garden that thrives on neglect

6 replies 6

gardening for beginners

Late corn planting for a last minute harvest?

22 replies 8

gardening for beginners

Fertilizing the garden on a budget

4 replies 5

gardening for beginners

Help with my peas please

9 replies 3 4

gardening for beginners

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

7 replies 4

gardening for beginners

Cardboard and mulch

6 replies

gardening for beginners

Can I plant now?

9 replies 1 3

gardening for beginners

Cold Stratification for the Total Novice

17 replies 1 7

gardening for beginners

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

6 replies

gardening for beginners

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

Harvest before frost?

10 replies 1

gardening for beginners

guerilla gardens 2025

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gardening for beginners

Raised Beds In Mediterranean Climate

6 replies

gardening for beginners

Tips/Tricks for transplanting trees and bushes

2 1 7

gardening for beginners

garden expectations and projects for 2025

4 replies 3 5

gardening for beginners

Toona Ciliata Germination Seedling

3 replies 3 1

gardening for beginners

Time to start planning the 2026 garden

3 replies 2 1

gardening for beginners

cabbage seedlings are always leggy

5 replies

gardening for beginners

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

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gardening for beginners

Creating Microbial "Nations"

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