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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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What died in your new gardens? so far...

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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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Ergonomics of making cattle panel arches

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Seeds Have Gone Places!!

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victory gardens, 2026 version: what are your plans?

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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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victory gardens, 2026 version: what are your plans?

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Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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What is Compost?

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Weird thought: Is BIGGER better?

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What would you plant in your roadside ditch?

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New planting zones for canada 2025

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Growing potatoes above ground

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How long does it take for Rhubarb to establish?

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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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Whole-diet Garden Plan Feedback

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What are my parsnips trying to tell me?

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How to use dry sunflower stalks in my soil?

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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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Three Sisters Year 4

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What can I do with (surprise!) coco coir?

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planting peas

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potatoes

Very early start on potatoes, hopefully not a mistake

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What died in your new gardens? so far...

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Three Sisters Year 4

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Planting asparagus berries

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What would you plant in your roadside ditch?

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Painted Mountain in a three sisters garden

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How long does it take for Rhubarb to establish?

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Easiest Vegetable to Grow

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Straw bale raised bed

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victory gardens, 2026 version: what are your plans?

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winter peas?

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Why can’t I grow mushrooms!.. complete failure.

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Horseradish planting & growing

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perennial vegetables

Walking onions?

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What can I do with (surprise!) coco coir?

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I Think Something Is Bugging My Cactus

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Squash identification help please?

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books

Integrating permaculture into an existing garden

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Advice needed on weeding and cover cropping, garden bed maintenance

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Organic/Safe(?) weed killers - any recommendations?

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house plants

spider mites must die! Organic and better solutions to spider mites on houseplants and plants.

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Potato Towers

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Heavy Clay Soil Amelioration

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Where to start? New house, new land. Not a previous garden plot

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Garden / soil help please

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Using water with arsenic on my plants

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What to do with 3/4 of an acre

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Removing plastic when growing micro-greens

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self watering bucket garden/hydroponics/first hugalculture raised beds

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plants

Violas/Johnny Jump Ups

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Peat pots

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Radish seedlings not sprouting after 6 days zone 6a

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shelters and habitat

Creating a habitat for wildlife?

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grapes

Growing Grapes Naturally

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How to Grow Aloe Vera

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Growing potatoes above ground

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please show me your irrigation systems

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

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What are my parsnips trying to tell me?

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

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Cub scouts newbie growies

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frugality

Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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grains and pseudograins

Corn Companion Plants - How to build a Corn Polyculture?

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urban vegetable garden?

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I have a dream---of new garden beds

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