Gardening & Growing Food
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Soil first, then everything else.
About this space
Soil first, then everything else. Beds, compost, seed saving, pests, and what is working in your climate this season rather than in a book written for somewhere else. Balconies and allotments both count, and the yields people post are weighed rather than guessed.
Topics
- Soil
- Seeds
- Pests
- This season
Recent discussions
- Gardening through the typhoon months: what do you plant, stake and keep in pots in storm country?Question · This season · Oct 25, 2026 · 7 replies
- Cacao pod borer at home-garden scale: bagging the pods works, it is just slowPests · Oct 25, 2026 · 6 replies
- Ten years of my own frost dates and what the spread says about plantingThis season · Oct 25, 2026 · 6 replies
- What our smallholders grow in the gaps under old coconut palms, and what it does to the soilSoil · Oct 24, 2026 · 8 replies
- What a simple germination test taught our rice cooperative about saved seedSeeds · Oct 24, 2026 · 8 replies
- Leave the roots in this fall: what our wheat ground taught me about backyard bedsSoil · Oct 24, 2026 · 7 replies
- What forty years of farm soil tests taught me about a backyard plotSoil · Oct 24, 2026 · 8 replies
- Something is eating my seedlings overnightQuestion · Pests · Sep 30, 2026 · 8 replies
- Soil: am I solving the wrong problem here?Question · Pests · Sep 27, 2026 · 5 replies
- No-dig worked for me but not for the reasons it is usually soldSoil · Sep 22, 2026 · 5 replies
- Pests: the advice I had to unlearnPests · Sep 19, 2026 · 4 replies
- Pests: how do you keep going past the interesting part?Question · Seeds · Sep 19, 2026 · 10 replies
- Balcony, four square metres, what it actually producedThis season · Sep 11, 2026 · 7 replies
- Soil: an unpopular opinion, argued properlySoil · Sep 2, 2026 · 6 replies
- Seeds: what has actually changed in the last year?This season · Aug 30, 2026 · 8 replies
- Pests: a small thing I am quietly pleased withSoil · Aug 19, 2026 · 9 replies
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