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plants

species, plant ID

Best ever

What staple crops are you growing?

298 replies 3 24 58

plants

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

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plants

Amazing Amaranth

73 replies 4 17 20

plants

Giant Kale

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plants

Maxima, Moschata, Pepo

74 replies 37 9

plants

Direct Seeding Tomatoes in ~100 Frost Free Days without season extension

130 replies 131 33

plants

the dark side of native plant enthusiasm

145 replies 9 43

plants

grow tomatoes without irrigation or fertilizer

109 replies 3 4 1

plants

Sepp Holzer's perennial grain

3 34 39

Plants that are money in the bank, food in the ground(/container)

106 replies 1 62

plants

Great big thread of Harvest photos!

48 replies 74 16

What do you know about sorghum?

72 replies 1 11 21

Landrace Squash photos and discussion

80 replies 104 31

plants

Are you growing a new vegetable this year?

94 replies 2 57

Over wintering chickpeas?

23 replies 3

My Chayote Squash Journey

59 replies 35 39

Growing Lentils

49 replies 14 3

plants

Perennial Greens You've Grown

142 replies 15 38

mullein in permaculture

162 replies 4 33 27

plants

Own or Breed Unique Varieties/Cultivars?

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Best this year

neighborhood bamboo patch

26 replies 9 18

plants

How long does it take for Rhubarb to establish?

20 replies 1 11

Magnesium - alternatives to Epsom salts

14 replies 3 3

What to do with harvested lavender?

14 replies 2 1 9

plants

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

22 replies 2 16

plants

Echinacea success!

14 replies 4 9

Is comfrey supposed to look this happy?

12 replies 2 1

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

25 replies 12 5

Mints and other mints

20 replies 1 6

plants

Help me ID two, maybe four types of comfrey?

12 replies 15 10

plants

is this hollyhock?

23 replies 8 2

Fatalistic Fennel?

16 replies 4 15

Perennial plant identification please

10 replies 2 1

Please ID this vine (or___?)

15 replies 3 6

Does anybody know what this is?

17 replies 1 1

Will Bermuda grass spout through landscape fabric?

26 replies 6 4

Whatsit? Geum canadense

9 replies 6 5

Safe disposal of ricin, Ricinus Communis, seeds

9 replies 5

plants

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

15 replies 2 4

Butternut Squash Stem-End Rot

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dynamic accumulators

Putting "bad" "weeds" to good use

1 day ago 43 replies [ 1, 2 ] 7 5 17

plants

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

2 days ago 1270 replies [ 1, 2, 3 < ... <30, 31, 32 ] 206 368 161

Shading plants: tips and techniques. Summers getting hotter and drier.

2 days ago 13 replies 7 11

flowers

Post your flowers!!! Native or non-native :D

2 days ago 80 replies [ 1, 2, 3 < ... <7, 8, 9 ] 232 44

fruit trees

Will pit fruits grown from seed breed true

3 days ago 44 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 7

cooking

planting and growing saffron

3 days ago 36 replies 1 13 27

gardening for beginners

Squash growing experience

4 days ago 86 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 86 56

beans

Best ways to get runner bean tubers to overwinter and regrow quickly?

4 days ago 30 replies 4 3

plants

What is the Difference Between a Fruit and a Vegetable?

5 days ago 13 replies 2 3 10

tips for awkward spots

Introducing Pacific, Virginia, and western waterleafs – 3 native wild vegetables

1 week ago 29 replies 10 4

forest garden

Plant Biodiversity in the Food Forest

1 week ago 33 replies 24 14

plants

Echinacea success!

1 week ago 14 replies 4 9

What to do with harvested lavender?

1 week ago 14 replies 2 1 9

medicinal herbs

Desperate for allergy relief!

1 week ago 113 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 2 23

Free LED plant grow lights

2 weeks ago 13 replies

plants

Plants which generate large volumes of green matter for compost?

2 weeks ago 22 replies 2 16

I want watermelon

2 weeks ago 10 replies 15 4

perennial vegetables

Help finding perennial ground cherry seeds

2 weeks ago 12 replies 3 3

Amazing sweet potato vine

2 weeks ago 0 replies 3 1

food preservation

What do I do with all of this summer squash?

2 weeks ago 42 replies [ 1, 2 ] 4 34

Please ID this vine (or___?)

2 weeks ago 15 replies 3 6

Plant ID please

3 weeks ago 4 replies 4 2

plants

Adding endophytes to corn

3 weeks ago 6 replies 12 9

Show me your chiles

3 weeks ago 2 replies 7 5

Ginger Flower?

3 weeks ago 3 replies 2 3

seeds and breeding

I grew several chile pepper plants next to each other -- seed question

3 weeks ago 2 replies

plants

Which "weed" do you dislike the most?

3 weeks ago 98 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 5 6 39

meaningless drivel

Favorite plant and the one you wish you could grow

3 weeks ago 31 replies 3 8

plants

Bees In The Garden

4 weeks ago 11 replies 1 6

How we save our corn from critters without buying commercially made products.

4 weeks ago 3 replies 1 1

plants

Direct Seeding Tomatoes in ~100 Frost Free Days without season extension

4 weeks ago 130 replies [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ] 131 33

wild harvesting

Perilla frutescens...shiso...for food and medicine? recipes?

1 month ago 22 replies 4 8

plants

What is killing my shrubs?

1 month ago 4 replies 8 1 8

mullein in permaculture

1 month ago 162 replies [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ] 4 33 27

Specific varieties of zucchini for resistance to mildew & squash bugs? (plus adventures with tatume)

1 month ago 20 replies 11 11

house plants

spider mites must die! Organic and better solutions to spider mites on houseplants and plants.

1 month ago 32 replies 2 1 10

plants

The uselessness of my garden huckleberries (Solanum melanocerasum)

1 month ago 27 replies 3 6

Permaculture Pumpkin Patch Ideas

1 month ago 19 replies 7 15

plants

Growing Buckwheat Naturally

1 month ago 44 replies [ 1, 2 ] 9 16

projects

Reviving our old homestead...and help with wisteria

1 month ago 41 replies [ 1, 2 ] 26 2

greening the desert

Composting prickly pear and looking for other compost ingredients in the desert

1 month ago 32 replies 2

Brown mushy spots on my bell peppers. picture added

1 month ago 9 replies 2

cascadia

Bracken Fern

1 month ago 23 replies 1 1

vines

Growing Watermelons

1 month ago 11 replies 4 5

cooking

Let’s talk about Coffee

1 year ago 19 replies 6 7
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