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Simple trellis for green beans

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Harvesting seeds from your groceries

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

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Easiest Vegetable to Grow

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what is permaculture?

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sweet potato propagation and harvest!!!

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Garden Failures...

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Growing Grapes Naturally

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Great big thread of Harvest photos!

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Yes, you may

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

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"What would get YOU doing a PEP / SKIP BB?"

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Shanleya's Quest: A Botany Adventure for Kids Ages 9-99 by Thomas Elpel

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What squash climb the best?

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

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"What would get YOU doing a PEP / SKIP BB?"

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Seeds Want to Go Places!!

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Eating bean leaves

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Not-killing houseplants. Aloe seems brown thumb friendly. What else?

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Ash's Hand-Dug Hugelkultur for PEP [Log]

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Why won't potatoes grow?

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Tomatoes - help me find a taste explosion

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How to convert a 1/4 acre of grass into a community garden?

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Cinder block raised bed

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I Planted My First Potatoes!

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Growing no-dig potatoes

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What would it be like....?

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Starting the new growing season!

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Suggestions for a tiny lot?

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9+ ways to make garden beds-- add your own!

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Small-ish Scale Dry Bean Harvesting

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Is there any compelling reason to deal with tiny thyme leaves instead of oregano's manageable ones?

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11 Cold-hardy perennial vegetables

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Japanese knotweed

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Cold hardy chili

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perennial vegetables

Planting Perennial Vegetables on Your Homestead

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earthworks

Moving Away From Swales - Why Aren't More People Talking About Bill Zeedyk And Craig Sponholtz?

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How fast do spring crops grow?

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How to grow winter squash

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(Truly) sweet lettuce?

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what do slugs NOT eat?

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Why won't potatoes grow?

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Potatoes: Pull Sprout/Sprout Jacking--Have you done it? Grow potatoes from peels.

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Attracting predators to manage pests

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forgotten root crops

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Question: 1st Edition of Seed to Seed vs. 2nd Edition -- half the price.

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