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Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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forest garden

Garden picture exchange!

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soil

women peeing outdoors

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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lawn

how do you change your grass ph without new soil

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plants

Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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organic

Simple trellis for green beans

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hugelkultur

keyhole garden in summer drought

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large farm

What is a fair price per acre for land?

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gardening for beginners

Harvesting seeds from your groceries

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beans

Cooking with Dry Beans and Peas

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plants

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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forest garden

Food forests, climate change, and who's going to eat!

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trees

raising silkmoths (silkworms) - Sericulture, Moriculture, and the wild ones

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permaculture

Is anyone really doing permaculture?

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seeds and breeding

Promiscuous auto-hybridizing tomatoes

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perennial vegetables

The great big thread of sunchoke info - growing, storing, eating/recipes, science facts

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trees

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

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greening the desert

Small, easy projects that make a big difference

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permaculture

What are your garden plans for 2023?

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urban gardening

Small water garden inspiration

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house plants

New forum idea - House plants (but I need your help)

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woodland

Powering a 3-phase sawmill with single phase solar.

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soil

Improving clay soil on the cheap

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urban gardening

Just got my first chip drop - happy happy happy

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small farm

Seed Starting without electricity

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urban gardening

What is a water garden?

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house plants

Budget Saver - how to grow lettuce at home

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tips for awkward spots

Chinampa in marshy area - water terraces

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woodland

The Tree field Skye

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plants

Death to scale bugs - help me brew up some organic death spray to save my citrus trees

34 replies 1 4

gardening for beginners

Food as houseplants?

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gardening for beginners

Would like input on potentially drastic option for garden beds

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urban gardening

garden apron or belt or...how do you carry your pruners etc around with you?

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trees

Coppice Trees for Firewood

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fruit trees

Mulberry die back over winter

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composting

Guerrilla composting

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plants

Plants in my house make me happy! Mental well-being through rewilding the house

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soil

How to improve clay soils and still be growing the first year

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composting

A Procrastinator's Guide to Kitchen Composting Without Smells or Gnats!

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gardening for beginners

Ruth Stout's 'No Work' gardening tip

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tips for awkward spots

How to turn dogwood tree into productive area?

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seeds and breeding

How to grow veggies that are difficult to germinate and grow.

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seeds and breeding

Potato onion seeds

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nuts

Hazel Nut pollination and Incompatibility Alleles

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permaculture

Started a couple plants

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peaches

Growing Peach Trees from Seed Naturally

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wetlands

Riparian Buffer Forest Gardens - Knowledge Share

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plants

Has anyone propagated lamb's quarter in any way-seed, etc.?

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berries

Help & ideas needed small fruit and berry orchard on a clay slope : o )

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propagation

Tell me how I'm not supposed to propagate mullein!

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nuts

thinking about planting a hazelnut orchard

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plants

PictureThis : Plant ID App Review

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polyculture

Gardening and weeds

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lawn

groundcover suggestions for steep section of lawn

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plants

Can someone help me ID this flower?

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seeds and breeding

What obstacles prevent you from saving seeds?

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soil

Improving clay soil on the cheap

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fungi

Mushroom Burial Suit

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small farm

I have a vision but no idea where to start

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fungi

Local Land Services - Mycology in May

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trees

Siberian Pea Tree aka Caragana Arborescens - Edible, but are they "good eats"?

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pasture

Grazing grasses & endophyte fescues

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hugelkultur

Short-ish Hugel-ish Build

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gardening for beginners

Growing no-dig potatoes

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soil

The urban myth about woodchips and nitrogen

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trees

Growing olive trees in marginal zones

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plants

Autumn Olives dying

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plants

Something that could out compete blackberries

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plants

Kale vs Broccoli

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cover crops

Comfrey

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plants

Bamboo Management

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trees

advice on root systems of windbreak trees/evergreens

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gardening for beginners

ALL of my soil has gone hydrophobic?

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beans

How is the fava bean cultivar 'Stereo'?

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small farm

Ideas for small acreage property

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gardening for beginners

Pitiful peppers

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berries

Elderberry spindle worms

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soil

Homemade Evapotranspiration Monitor

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forest garden

May have uncovered some good info on Myrica Pensylvanica Edibility

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berries

Foraging wild berries?

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plants

Can you survive on Jerusalem Artichoke?

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