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concerns with using cardboard/newspaper as a mulch

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Too much soil against house

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Need advice on designing & planning permaculture in Elgin IL

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Ye shall know them by their fruits

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Seed Starting Medium?

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Regrowing store produce after using most of it

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Weird thought: Is BIGGER better?

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

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Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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Happy Accidents

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Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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Garden Plan Swap!

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Planting by Phenology (Natural Plant and Animal Cycles)

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

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trees

Fall Leaves! Uses?

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Do I really need a raised bed?

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cooking

how to grow and use kohlrabi

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permaculture design

Getting started with permaculture zones

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grains and pseudograins

A grain that is easy to grow and easy to process/harvest

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

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Raised beds

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Pee good for the garden??

2 months ago 22 replies 2

Three Sisters Year 4

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I would like to grow winter squash, but.....?

2 months ago 14 replies 6

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How do your organise your seed packets?

2 months ago 58 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 25 16

tall crops for shade?

2 months ago 5 replies

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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chickens

Peach trees in a chicken run?

2 months ago 1 reply

DIY Potting Mix?

2 months ago 23 replies 4 4

Choosing what to grow - What's your approach/philosophy?

2 months ago 37 replies 1 23

Late corn planting for a last minute harvest?

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digital market

How To Garden For Goats by Leigh Tate

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seeds and breeding

Easiest and Hardest Seeds to Save

2 months ago 23 replies 12 12

plants

Great big thread of Harvest photos!

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potatoes

Growing potatoes -- methods and musings

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Fastest harvest Permaculture Crop Northern Europe?

3 months ago 17 replies

Growing green onions from seed in containers

3 months ago 1 reply 1 1

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New planting zones for canada 2025

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Sun-jokes?

3 months ago 4 replies 3

beans

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

3 months ago 20 replies 3 1

Don’t forget to observe your garden

5 years ago 6 replies 4 1

soil

Pine needles - do they make the soil acidic or not?!

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