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gardening for beginners

Don't know where to start with gardening? No question is too simple - ask away!

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Benefits of growing potatoes from true seed.

3 months ago 27 replies 3 10

Can you eat immature pumpkins?

3 months ago 12 replies 1

2025 - What are your gardening failures so far this year?

3 months ago 22 replies 5 23

To amend or not to amend soil

3 months ago 11 replies 5

Creating Microbial "Nations"

3 months ago 4 replies 7 1

A Totally New Way Of Thinking

3 months ago 8 replies 1 1 3

Learn about CORE gardening

3 months ago 6 replies 1

Removing and mulching/suppressing wild blackberries

3 months ago 17 replies 13

beans

Sword Beans - trying them as an annual

3 months ago 9 replies 6 6

hugelkultur

How to find the type of hugelkultur bed that’s right for you

4 months ago 24 replies 1 15 11

meaningless drivel

Fall Decor Pumpkins/squash that are excellent eating

4 months ago 117 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 68 90

can i split asparagus crowns??

4 months ago 5 replies

plants

Ground Cherries - Edible or Poisonous?

4 months ago 6 replies 1 2

soil

Rabbit Poop in the garden

4 months ago 10 replies

gardening for beginners

All-in-One Permaculture Design App

4 months ago 3 17 2

gear

Most used Fall tools

4 months ago 11 replies 2 4

Harvest before frost?

4 months ago 10 replies 1

gardening for beginners

first frost came early -- can I still save seeds?

4 months ago 7 replies 4

beans

Small-ish Scale Dry Bean Harvesting

4 months ago 37 replies 2 4 24

Charleton Gray Watermelon

4 months ago 1 reply

Hello Everyone! A Gardening Beginner Here

4 months ago 2 replies

My first keyhole garden

4 months ago 2 replies 9 3

gardening for beginners

Victory Gardens! How-to, what to grow, and so much more!

4 months ago 124 replies [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ] 126 139

Raised Beds In Mediterranean Climate

4 months ago 6 replies

Growing chia

5 months ago 17 replies 1 4

urban gardening

Year-Round Gardening in Zones 9–11: Strategies for Seamless Transitions and Abundant Harvests

5 months ago 2 replies 10

Time to start planning the 2026 garden

5 months ago 3 replies 2 1

Affordable soil for raised beds?

5 months ago 36 replies 3 5

gardening for beginners

How could a Permie deal with Voles?

5 months ago 64 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 7 17

Squash - need help identifying

5 months ago 2 replies 3

Gopher resistant squash varieties.

5 months ago 0 replies

permaculture

Best first moves for learning to garden? How does one learn how to learn to garden?

5 months ago 41 replies [ 1, 2 ] 4 26

fungi

Best Beginner Mushroom Varieties

5 months ago 38 replies 4 17

What can take care of itself and thrive regardless of surrounding "weeds"?

5 months ago 14 replies 2 3

gardening for beginners

Sweet potatoes from slips in pots

5 months ago 3 replies 2 1

First-time permaculture garden in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada - looking for some ideas/help!

5 months ago 11 replies

meaningless drivel

Sneaky edibles -What are the most beautiful edibles in your garden?

5 months ago 48 replies [ 1, 2 ] 20 22

Growing Food on a Budget

6 months ago 36 replies 4 15

permaculture

getting started with permaculture

6 months ago 9 replies 6

beans

Green beans sparse and curved

6 months ago 2 replies 2

gardening for beginners

garden infested with squash bugs....

6 months ago 15 replies 1 4

soil

Compost is Magic!!!

6 months ago 7 replies 4 7

Sweet pepper comparisons

2 years ago 10 replies 3

bugs

Are aphids always bad?

5 years ago 7 replies 4 7
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