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polyculture

polyculture, plant guilds, and companion planting

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Looking for people living in southern grow zone who plant and grow all year

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guilds of plants.

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Jerusalem Artichoke (sunchoke) and Sweet Lupine Regenerative Cover Crop

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What can I grow bulk amounts of in woodlands?

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Gardening and weeds

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Crowded sisters

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Wonderfully wild

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Pea Polyculture?

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Polyculture Pros and Cons

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Bioactive terrarium

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Where to plant raspberries and grapes

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Companion planting with Asparagus

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Weeds, or Polyculture?

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Ianto Evans's Polyculture

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Logistics of 3 Sisters Garden

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Soil building, and pomegranate, fig, olive planting guild suggestions?

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Three Sisters, continuous cropping, in the tropics, for food and fodder.

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Balancing polyculture with efficiency?

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Potatoes in raised beds: with companions or alone?

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Growing annual vegetables with minimal effort?

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What can I grow bulk amounts of in woodlands?

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Mixing raspberries with stropharia "mulch", strawberries and anything else

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"Lean on Pea" aka: growing peas on other plants?

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Rotating annual polycultures

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Any methods similar to 3 sisters?

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chestnut-centered guild

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projects

Restoring soil structure and simple farming in a wet climate

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fruit trees

Growing Pawpaws Naturally

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Year 4

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Beans and garlic; how close is too close?

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projects

My attempts at useful perennial polycultures

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forest garden

Black Mulberry and Black Walnut

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Bioactive terrarium

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projects

STUMPS (and their roots) as a basis for fruit tree guilds

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Companion planting vs Guilds?

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plants

easily introducing a guild under a fruit tree (stump the permie experts)

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Spacing similar plants far apart

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Rotating annual polycultures

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Hairy vetch and Strawberries

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grapes

New form of trellis

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plants

Seeking chestnut orchard groundcover seed sources and ideas

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Juglone and leeks

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chestnut-centered guild

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Where to plant raspberries and grapes

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books

Integrated Forest Gardening by Weiseman, Halsey and Ruddock

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kids

leeks/garlic instead of daffodils in fruit tree guilds

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soil

How close do nitrogen fixing plants need to be?

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Interesting article: maslins... planting grains together

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lawn

Walkable meadow lawns

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Wonderfully wild

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lawn

permies vs. lawns?

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What can I grow bulk amounts of in woodlands?

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apples

comfrey for apple guild

4 months ago 7 replies 1

Any methods similar to 3 sisters?

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permaculture

Best companion plant combinations!

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grains and pseudograins

maslin (mixed grain polyculture)

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homestead

Southern California Homestead stories

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forest garden

Converting a Monoculture Orchard To a Food Forest

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urban gardening

Contemplating weeding

6 months ago 11 replies

seeds and breeding

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

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"Lean on Pea" aka: growing peas on other plants?

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lawn

A lawn that is also an edible polyculture....what works well?

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forest garden

Wild Cherry and Lilac Guild

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pasture

Pasture, Wetland & Forest Edge Seeds - 2025 - zone 5a

9 months ago 1 reply 1

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Jerusalem Artichoke (sunchoke) and Sweet Lupine Regenerative Cover Crop

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plants

What are the best groundcover species?

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Mixing raspberries with stropharia "mulch", strawberries and anything else

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permaculture

Living trellises.

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beans

companions for bush beans

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bugs

Are aphids always bad?

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