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gardening for beginners

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Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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Simple trellis for green beans

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

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Fall Decor Pumpkins/squash that are excellent eating

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Ideas for Trellis Gardening

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Easiest Vegetable to Grow

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Yes, you may

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concerns with using cardboard/newspaper as a mulch

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

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Seeds Have Gone Places!!

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Ergonomics of making cattle panel arches

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3 Sisters Garden, 2024, Year 2

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What squash climb the best?

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

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what is permaculture?

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Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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Permaculture Victories: tell your stories

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Great big thread of Harvest photos!

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Eating bean leaves

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Garden Failures...

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Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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Is growing your own food a waste of time?

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Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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Weird thought: Is BIGGER better?

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What is Compost?

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New planting zones for canada 2025

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Growing Food on a Budget

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What's your favorite "alternate" product of a garden plant?

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Why the duck cant I grow carrots!!!

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

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How to use dry sunflower stalks in my soil?

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Whole-diet Garden Plan Feedback

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Can you eat immature pumpkins?

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Soil CEC (Cation Exchange Capacity)

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What advice to take? Not?

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Standing Stubble vs Chop and Drop

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planting peas

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Strawberries - An underrated fruit?

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What in the world is this? - lamb's quarters

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Botched soil blocking

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Please help I cant germinate eggplant seeds

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Whole-diet Garden Plan Feedback

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Soil is the secret sauce

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Potato Towers

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What is the secret to getting tomato seeds to germinate?

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planting peas

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Permies Poll: What is your preferred transplant technique?

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potatoes

What to do with a bag of sprouting potatoes

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How to Grow Aloe Vera

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The Quilt Garden: A Labor Of Love

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hedges

Best Edible Perennial Hedging?

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How to use dry sunflower stalks in my soil?

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Ideas for Trellis Gardening

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Best Temporary Garden Setup

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Best Temporary Garden Setup

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grains and pseudograins

Is Corn Worth Growing on Small Plots?

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Lettuce seedlings seeming to close up and fold inwards

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mulch

Applying compost over mulch?

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Companion planting asparagus

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I'm teaching a free webinar on seed starting!

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gear

Most used Winter tools

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Evening Solace Spiral- Has anyone tried something like this?

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Bagged leaves-what’s the etiquette

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mulch

Talking about types of mulch - which do you prefer?

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soil

Worm Castings?

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Botched soil blocking

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Growing rosemary from seed (it’s not as easy as it sounds)

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LOST all my seeds

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books

An Introduction to Twenty-First Century HOE FARMING: an antidote to globalisation by Gareth Lewis

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Why the duck cant I grow carrots!!!

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composting

What is Compost?

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

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All those lovely herbaceous plants!

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organic

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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frugality

Struggle meals

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plants

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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Don’t forget to observe your garden

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Veggie garden/Permaculture/Hugelkultur in challenging Colorado High Plains?

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soil

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

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