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How To Trim A Succulent That’s Too Tall?

3 years ago 0 replies 1

homestead

19 Ways to Make Your Homestead Resilient to Drought

3 years ago 33 replies 7 16

Worried about my warm season veggies

3 years ago 27 replies 8 10

fruit trees

Help! Does my Meyer Lemon have salt burn and is my plan to fix it a good one?

3 years ago 5 replies 4

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Help me sanity-check my 9b garden?

3 years ago 3 replies 2

permaculture

Help with my Big Picture + perennial forage forest/polyculture mix

3 years ago 11 replies 16 3

Brassica seeds- question?

3 years ago 1 reply 1

Paper Tape Biodegradable?

3 years ago 6 replies 1

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First flowers of the year! (What pretty thing did you see in the garden today?)

3 years ago 47 replies [ 1, 2 ] 54 5

Hand pollinating

3 years ago 7 replies 4 3

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Wheel hoe - is it worth it?

3 years ago 5 replies 1 1

beans

Planting beans to watch how plants grow

3 years ago 7 replies 5

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Grounded: A Gardener's Journey to Abundance and Self-Sufficiency by Liz Zorab

3 years ago 4 1

books

Growing Beans by Susan Young

3 years ago 1 1 4

Starting a new asparagus bed

3 years ago 1 reply

How to Grow Organic Tomatoes

3 years ago 0 replies 4

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Cucurbits dying after transplant

3 years ago 17 replies 5 5

Putting 3 ft high raised beds over 4 month old pine tree stumps

3 years ago 8 replies 3 2

How long after using Deadweed (Bonide) should I wait before planting

3 years ago 6 replies

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Direct seeding or transplanting vegetable starts - which do you do?

3 years ago 37 replies 1 7 19

Gardening Challenge with Lots of Seeds to Raffle to Participants

3 years ago 2 replies 1

Help growing what we will eat: Iceberg or an alternative crisphead lettuce

3 years ago 13 replies 4

potatoes

Know Why Chitting Potatoes and How

3 years ago 20 replies 3 1

books

Grow or Die: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening by David the Good

3 years ago 4 2 5

Beginner raised bed question

3 years ago 3 replies

beans

My Organic Broad Beans

3 years ago 0 replies 3

potatoes

How to Grow Organic Potatoes in a Bag

3 years ago 0 replies 4

Starting a small terrace-raised bed-soil building area sort of thing...Free.

3 years ago 1 reply 3 1

How to Grow Sweet Peas Indoors

3 years ago 0 replies 3

Pre-sprouting Sweet Pea Seeds Indoors

3 years ago 2 replies 3

Advice for starting a food forest/permaculture from scratch

3 years ago 26 replies 3

gardening for beginners

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

3 years ago 178 replies [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ] 9 29 56

How to (should I?) work with short square tomato cages?

3 years ago 12 replies 1

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I have a sprouting in one of my plants that I don’t recognize - pine tree seedling

3 years ago 6 replies 2

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Comfrey

3 years ago 4 replies

beans

Growing Beans Naturally

3 years ago 11 replies 16 2

Heat Mat for Seedlings - Help!

3 years ago 28 replies 3 2

Guess what I planted (hint: I have no clue)

3 years ago 7 replies 1

gardening for beginners

Is this Salvia Miltiorrhiza or a Skullcap ? Or something else ?

3 years ago 9 replies 2 1

Accidental gardening... What is this plant/cactus ?

3 years ago 10 replies 4 1

gardening for beginners

Another plant mystery - Garden Beet, Beta vulgaris

3 years ago 6 replies 1

Good companion for White Sage (salvia apiana) ?

3 years ago 0 replies

upcycling

Improvising, making, or sourcing DIY (do-it-yourself) garden cloches

3 years ago 46 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 9 25

do peat pots inhibit root growth?

3 years ago 17 replies 1

As much food in a tiny (city/suburb) space…

3 years ago 13 replies 2 8 6
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