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What "weeds" do you grow on purpose?

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all things bamboo

10 replies

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Anyone know what this plant is? Hemp nettle!

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Does anyone have experience growing pawpaw trees?

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Please help! I need to develop a list of fire resistant plants, especially trees, hardy to zone 2.

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Tenacious gourd

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Any suggestions for easily grown chicken feed that can be stored for winter?

11 replies 3

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Where should I plant my comfrey?

18 replies

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Tall trees

19 replies 3 3

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Grasses invading my mulch - Bermuda grass

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Article on Starting a Nursery Business

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Borage Comfrey's unappreciated cousin.

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Cherokee heirloom crops from the Trail Of Tears era (1830s)

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Yaupon in the Uk

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What is the maximum temperature tolerance for these herbs?

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What absurd thing has a plant done that you never, ever expected?

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Summer Squash Landrace

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Seeking Tips for Reducing Presence of Perilla or Beefsteak Mint

10 replies 4 3

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Best grains for the home garden

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Comfrey - can we take it internally? Let's figure out how to have the research done

10 replies 2

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Bronze Fennel

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Help with ID - Kentucky Coffee Tree seeds

10 replies 4 3

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Sweet Potato Leaves Are Edible Raw!

8 replies

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Windbreak for bacterial dominated soil

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Drizzle falling from blackberry vines

8 replies 1 4

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I don’t have a fly problem, I have a carnivorous plant deficiency

15 replies

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native plants

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Can you ID these three plants for me? Nipplewort, hollyhock, and wild lettuce

20 replies 6 1

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When all else fails, plant weeds?

10 replies 1 4

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Finding heritage and organic cereals.

37 replies

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Historic use of velvetleaf

16 replies 6 4

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Landrace seed gene pool preservation and development

7 replies 5 4

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Where to buy strawberry seeds, bulk, cheap? (organic, non-F1)

9 replies 3

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What plant should I grow as a windbreak for my garden?

16 replies 1

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Tomatoes variety matters

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Do worms have favourite foods?

22 replies

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growing over low-pressure-dose septic system

14 replies

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What houseplants to plant on a chandelier?

10 replies 6

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Growing Comfrey From Stems

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Plant listings for plants of mediterranean biomes

10 replies

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Mystery Tree ID (zone 10)- help if you can, please

8 replies 4

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Plant identification

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Best Viburnum for Eating?

3 replies 1

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Tomatoes?

5 replies

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Show me your chiles

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Milky patches of sticky substance in my plant

4 replies 3 1

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"DIE, English Ivy!" And how to obliterate it

11 replies 2

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My first time hand pollinating peas

9 replies 4 4

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40 pounds of (sorta) edible man-root: Ipomoea leptophylla/pandurata

10 replies 2

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CalPhos liquid fertilizer spray made from eggshells

2 replies

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bamboo in zone 3-4

14 replies

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Comfrey - Bocking 4 vs Bocking 14: How to differentiate?!

25 replies 7 3

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Can I make a natural rooting hormone with things other than willow water?

16 replies 1 4

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Kosha and foxtail how does it benefit the soil

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Corn Smut (huitlacoche)

10 replies 5 3

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Pokeweed and its Roots and Berries

13 replies 3

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Any idea what's the name of this plant?

8 replies 2

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goutweed, aegopodium, as a salad??

21 replies 1 1

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Plant ID - yellow flowers (Elecampane)

5 replies 2

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Propagate comfrey from a cutting

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