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gardening for beginners

Permies Poll: What is your preferred transplant technique?

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gardening for beginners

Easiest Vegetable to Grow

1 month ago 206 replies [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ] 15 108

The Amazing Health Benefits of Purslane

1 month ago 49 replies [ 1, 2 ] 5 14

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Can anyone id this thing is that is eating my peach tree leaves......?

1 month ago 8 replies 8 1

urban gardening

What would you like included in a beginners book about permaculture in warm climates?

1 month ago 6 replies 1

gardening for beginners

The Most Food for the Time & Space

1 month ago 49 replies [ 1, 2 ] 5 29

Top Dress with Worm Castings

1 month ago 3 replies 1

Anyone watching Zach Galifianakis' new gardening show?

1 month ago 1 reply 1 1

potatoes

Very early start on potatoes, hopefully not a mistake

1 month ago 26 replies 8 6

Painted Mountain in a three sisters garden

1 month ago 6 replies 4

plants

How long does it take for Rhubarb to establish?

1 month ago 20 replies 1 11

Straw bale raised bed

1 month ago 27 replies 17

Winter peas?

1 month ago 6 replies 1

Why can’t I grow mushrooms!.. complete failure.

1 month ago 8 replies 4

I Think Something Is Bugging My Cactus

2 months ago 3 replies 2 1

Squash identification help please?

2 months ago 2 replies 4

books

Integrating permaculture into an existing garden

2 months ago 1 reply 1

Advice needed on weeding and cover cropping, garden bed maintenance

2 months ago 9 replies 10 6

Organic/Safe(?) weed killers - any recommendations?

2 months ago 16 replies 2

house plants

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

2 months ago 29 replies 2 1 10

gardening for beginners

Potato Towers

2 months ago 17 replies 3 11

gardening for beginners

Heavy Clay Soil Amelioration

2 months ago 16 replies 12 1

Where to start? New house, new land. Not a previous garden plot

2 months ago 12 replies 4 2 1

Garden / soil help please

2 months ago 25 replies 1 2 8

Using water with arsenic on my plants

2 months ago 11 replies 2

What to do with 3/4 of an acre

2 months ago 24 replies 1 5

Removing plastic when growing micro-greens

2 months ago 3 replies 1 2

self watering bucket garden/hydroponics/first hugalculture raised beds

2 months ago 7 replies 1 1

plants

Violas/Johnny Jump Ups

2 months ago 5 replies 1 3

Peat pots

2 months ago 4 replies 1

shelters and habitat

Creating a habitat for wildlife?

2 months ago 42 replies [ 1, 2 ] 16 13

grapes

Growing Grapes Naturally

2 months ago 136 replies [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ] 7 67 41

gardening for beginners

How to Grow Aloe Vera

2 months ago 7 replies 3

gardening for beginners

Growing potatoes above ground

2 months ago 18 replies 5

please show me your irrigation systems

2 months ago 6 replies 11 8

gardening for beginners

How Many Of Each Plant To Grow As A Percentage Of Total Calories

2 months ago 179 replies [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ] 9 31 56

What are my parsnips trying to tell me?

2 months ago 12 replies 8 9

gardening for beginners

Favorite easy ways to make garden beds? Here's mine using mulch and potatoes!

2 months ago 52 replies [ 1, 2 ] 26 23

Cub scouts newbie growies

2 months ago 8 replies 1 2

frugality

Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

3 months ago 299 replies [ 1, 2, 3 < ... <6, 7, 8 ] 3 53 154

gear

plant label ideas?

3 months ago 63 replies [ 1, 2 ] 7 3

gardening for beginners

urban vegetable garden?

3 months ago 10 replies 4 4

I have a dream---of new garden beds

3 months ago 10 replies 2 9

dyeing

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

1 year ago 98 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 3 41 21
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