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    Getting some new supplies for the garden today, couple questions for the community:

    I'll try to be breif: Dirt - So I need to refill my beds to make up for the lost/compressed basically peat moss. Does it make more sense to refill it with a couple bags of dirt mix? My thinking is if I'm trying to "grow my soil" from this point forward I basically only need to be putting in...
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    RIP my Squash Plants - Mistakes and lessons from my very first attempt at growing food.

    RIP My Squash plants. We're in the middle of June and it's about time to start looking to carrots and broccoli prep so I made the touch decision to go ahead an pull up my squash plants and throw them in the compost mostly because over the course of the last 4 days I've been going out regularly...
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    Squash Vine Borers - My Experience.

    One of the first three plants I'm growing is summer squash and I typically check my garden every 1 to 2 days and noticed one of my plants was suddenly wilting even outside of sunny times, a sudden and strong presence of these weird brown specks on the leaves and vines of my squash, a new kind of...
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    My First Garden Experiment - Controlling Ants with Organic Store bought supplies, Borax!

    Alright so recently I noticed that ants are taking over my raised bed. They're everywhere, ON the plants, crawling around the bed frame, etc etc and I feel like I'm seeing my plants suffer for this as well as starting to see what I think are aphid eggs/ Spores(?) on my plant leaves. For the...
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    Did I just catch some Aphids before they hatch? Also what are these bugs??

    After some research it looks like these are a mass of Squash bug eggs https://www.almanac.com/pest/squash-bugs good thing I got rid of them! Yesterday while working on my raised bed I noticed: 1. a bunch of ants 2. these spore looking things on the bottom of some of my leaves. i've since...
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    Garden Update - 6/6/22

    Video: Green Beans: No Signs of vegitation yet Sqaush: Looks like 13! Toamtoes: Looks like there's about 3 starts (bulbs?) of tomatoes Shout out to everyone whose been answering. I definitely got watering and fertilizing down and my plants are starting to look much more firm and healthy. I...
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    Garden Update - 5/15/22

    So Questions this week: 1. If the goal is to sustain 1/4 to 1/2 acre homestead, would you go with vermicomposting or Hot Composting. 2. If I got a lawn mower and then mixed the green grass (nitrogen) with the brown (carbon) in a layered pile, would that make compost / compost worth having? I...
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    Gardening What should I do now to make my food garden self sufficient / Self Sustaining next year?

    So I'm wondering what I should be doing now to greatly reduce or eliminate the need for store-bought products in my food garden. A couple key points: 1. I cheaply filled my first raised bed with some yard clippings and then filled the rest of the space with peat moss and Black Kow manure. I'm...
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    My Sub 15 minutes garden and growing plan, Feedback would be much appreciated!

    Hey all, Let me preface this video by stating I'm maybe a month into the practice of gardening and my research so far has been a lot of starting with SSM videos and going from there and researching individual things on some corner of the internet and then experimenting. I'm a little self...
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    Philosophy of Fishing - Why Don't Fishers immediately kill the fish they're going to eat?

    Let me start by saying I'm all about hunting and fishing for meat, that said I my feeling is that if you're going to hunt an animal for food, you should kill it instantly vs letting it bleed out (deer and what not ) or suffocate (Fish). I've been watching a lot of fishing videos lately and am...
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    Hello from TX,USA!

    Hey guys (g'day!) My Names DJ and I'm an IT pro from the DFW area of TX slowly working my way into the self sufficient lifestyle. My goal is to provide for myself and my immediate family. I just got my first bits of kit (vego 9-in-1, RSI 65gal Compost Tumbler, hand tools) built and placed this...
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