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Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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What staple crops are you growing?

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Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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Simple trellis for green beans

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Reforestation - Growing trees in arid, barren lands - by Seeds and Clay cubes (no watering)

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Growing Cotton in The Great White North - Yes, it is possible to grow cotton in Canada!

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Indigo blue - growing, harvesting, processing and marketing indigo dye plants

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Landrace Gardening

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Monthly Food Forest Tours! Let's create a food forest together!

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Prickly Pear are the perfect permaculture plant for parched places

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Woad - growing, harvesting and dyeing

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Amazing Amaranth

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Giant Kale

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Easiest Vegetable to Grow

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Maxima, Moschata, Pepo

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grow tomatoes without irrigation or fertilizer

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Sepp Holzer's perennial grain

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One Solution to the Crisis: Landrace Everything

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growing, harvesting and using natural dye plants and other natural dye materials

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Roses and permaculture?

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What new plant will you try in 2025?

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what are you planting or allowing to grow that future owners might consider invasives?

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This plant is taking over...

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Let's talk tomatoes

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Best plants to plant and forget? Perennials or self seeders.

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Invasive species on purpose

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What is this—its taking over my tall grass area.

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My stinging nettle doesn't sting!

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Transplanting nettles

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is this hollyhock?

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Is this nettle?

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Poor Soil Plants - What can you get to grow?

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plants

What do you do with surplus_________________ (fill the blank)?

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Butternut Squash Stem-End Rot

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Our 2025 garden

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Let’s talk about Coffee

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Trouble in tomato town

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Safe disposal of ricin, Ricinus Communis, seeds

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will very rusty well water harm plants?

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Magnets and copper effect on plants

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gardening for beginners

Regrowing store produce after using most of it

3 hours ago 38 replies 24 14 1

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Is there a way to increase vitamins and minerals in produce?

1 day ago 11 replies 2 1

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Reforestation - Growing trees in arid, barren lands - by Seeds and Clay cubes (no watering)

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Butternut Squash Stem-End Rot

3 days ago 4 replies 1

seeds and breeding

When does your horseradish flower? Have you ever seen it make good horseradish seed?

4 days ago 5 replies 7

seeds and breeding

Creating a Mochata Squash Landrace that is Vigorous, Productive, and Bug and Disease Resistant!

4 days ago 22 replies 10 16

propagation

Fig Trees for Propagation

5 days ago 22 replies 1 2

plants

What should Wheaton Labs plant? YOU DECIDE

6 days ago 65 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 8

Squash Selection to Avoid Common Issues

6 days ago 31 replies 6 19

frugality

Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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cascadia

growing ginger in the pacific nw

1 week ago 23 replies 1 12 5

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is this hollyhock?

1 week ago 23 replies 8 2

gardening for beginners

Planting by Phenology (Natural Plant and Animal Cycles)

1 week ago 46 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 7 49

seeds and breeding

Landrace Gardening

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wild harvesting

Favorite springtime things to forage?

1 week ago 29 replies 10 6

plants

What do you do with surplus_________________ (fill the blank)?

2 weeks ago 19 replies 11

organic

Principles vs. practice: a replacement for comfrey

2 weeks ago 13 replies 1 1

multi flora rose invasion

2 weeks ago 36 replies 6

Vaccinium myrtillus

2 weeks ago 3 replies

Seeking chestnut orchard groundcover seed sources

2 weeks ago 1 reply

wells and springs

will very rusty well water harm plants?

2 weeks ago 13 replies

Rosemary hedge because the buxus moth ate my buxus

2 weeks ago 15 replies 8 11

cooking

how to grow and use kohlrabi

2 weeks ago 9 replies 1

house plants

Houseplants for People who can't grow houseplants!

2 weeks ago 46 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 14 13

Tomatoes - Stake or let them do their thing?

3 weeks ago 27 replies 3

Plant inventory - What plants are living on your piece of paradise?

3 weeks ago 7 replies 1

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Plants for boggy places

3 weeks ago 9 replies 1

plants

Have you used Good King Henry?

3 weeks ago 16 replies 1 9

books

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum)

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Clitoria ternatea - Blue Butterfly Pea

4 weeks ago 5 replies 1 1

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mugwort

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seeds and breeding

Easiest and Hardest Seeds to Save

4 weeks ago 23 replies 11 12

Plant suggestions for cleaning soil - specifically of motor oil

1 month ago 17 replies

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Obsessed with these beautiful English hedges (1940s England)

1 month ago 21 replies 1 2 7

Heirloom crops of Eastern Europe.

1 month ago 9 replies

plants

Great big thread of Harvest photos!

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10% off all Chestnut trees for you good folks! Happy New Year!

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urban gardening

What did you harvest (eat, preserve, plant) today?

1 month ago 40 replies [ 1, 2 ] 34 14

Turmeric in arid climes

1 month ago 7 replies 4

Growing 40 large veggie plants in under 2 sq/ft

1 month ago 5 replies 38 4

permaculture

Scientific Neglect

1 month ago 21 replies 2

gardening for beginners

Fastest harvest Permaculture Crop Northern Europe?

1 month ago 17 replies

Maypop in the north? Anyone? Anyone?

1 month ago 23 replies 1 1

Let's talk tomatoes

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