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Garden picture exchange!

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soil

women peeing outdoors

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seeds and breeding

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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beans

Cooking with Dry Beans and Peas

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Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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The great big thread of sunchoke info - growing, storing, eating/recipes, science facts

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plants

Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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lawn

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greening the desert

keyhole garden in summer drought

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plants

Simple trellis for green beans

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What is a fair price per acre for land?

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seeds and breeding

Profoundly Promiscuous and Totally Tasty Tomato Project

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plants

Reforestation - Growing trees in arid, barren lands - by Seeds and Clay cubes (no watering)

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forest garden

Food forests, climate change, and who's going to eat!

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seeds and breeding

garden plans, records, results, hopes.....

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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fruit trees

Sea Buckthorn (Sea berries) A Super food

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gamcod

Is growing your own food a waste of time?

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vines

How did medieval peasants do it?

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house plants

Monstera, to slice or save?

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urban gardening

My city farm

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plants

What new plant will you try in 2025?

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fruit trees

Sprouting seeds for peach trees

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composting

Are keyhole gardens really permanent?

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flowers

Euptoieta claudia - Variegated Fritillary...caterpillar and chrysalis and now a butterfly emerged!

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urban gardening

Homesteading in Cities

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gamcod

"Seed-snail" testing thread, 2025

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gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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small farm

How to get the most out of small acreage?

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soil

What is potash?

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berries

American Elderberry, cut to the ground every year? Biomass bonanza?

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gardening for beginners

How could a Permie deal with Voles?

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root crops

please share ideas for growing BIG sweet potatoes, several pounds per plant

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lawn

Lawnmower alternatives

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biochar

Filtering out excess Nitrogen with Biochar

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Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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plants

Plant inventory - What plants are living on your piece of paradise?

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Akebia Vine AKA Chocolate Vine Taste???

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vines

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fruit trees

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fungi

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trees

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gardening for beginners

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lawn

How to change minds - one lawn at a time!

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organic

Help with non plastic raised bed liner

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trees

tree identification and care help

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gardening for beginners

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flowers

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gardening for beginners

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gardening for beginners

tall crops for shade?

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mulch

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seeds and breeding

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forest garden

Blue elderberry management

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fruit trees

Feijoa help... please!

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hugelkultur

Eucalyptus trees are unsuitable for Hügelkultur

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trees

Air prune beds

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fruit trees

Canadian Fruit Tree Cuttings

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fungi

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gardening for beginners

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permaculture

Horticulture of the United States of Pocahontas (husp)

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plants

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composting

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gardening for beginners

DIY Potting Mix?

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propagation

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wetlands

Uk boggy land, what to grow, do with it?

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composting

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gardening for beginners

Choosing what to grow - What's your approach/philosophy?

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lawn

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

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plants

Have you used Good King Henry?

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fungi

Myco-remediation? Any success stories?

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forest garden

Syntropic Agriculture

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organic

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gardening for beginners

Late corn planting for a last minute harvest?

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trees

Chinese Toon - overwintering, pruning

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urban gardening

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