Comments from yesterday's votes

We had 79 votes yesterday, and 40 of these votes included comments. Here they are, anonymously, for your perusal and discussion.

Dave

1. Just to say.......another great innovation!
2. Just another thank you for being a great webmaster!
3. How about a forum for garden arts and crafts? You could call it a "Garden Arts Festival"
4. You're a hard worker Dave! You do soooooo much for us! Thank you!!!!!!!
5. I presume that the soil forum would include compost & vermiposting discussions - ?
6. Thank you for constantly improving DG and making it such a great place! :) I know I'm mostly a lurker, but I visit almost everyday, whenever I'm on the web... :)
7. I like all these ideas except the Newbie one. I think it might make new gardeners feel like they should be isolated and not "bother" anyone.
8. Indoor nongrowlight gardening for apt./trailer dwellers on limited budget (those rising utility bills) Nut trees Cloche, pit, plastic tent/tunnel/coldframe overwintering, European method of seed planting in late fall (outdoor nursery area for seedstarting for spring), An index to the boards, perhaps in two-four columns on one screen, each board listed clickable! Thanks.
9. Keep up the great work...Your dedication to this site really shows!!....I thank you for all your hard work to keep this site so helpful to all us gardeners, those new and those who have been gardening for some time....There is never too much to learn and always something new to know...THANKS!!
10. A brugmansia forum would be wonderful. But I also understand you can get too many. I think maybe you might even consider consolidating some of the current ones. Just a thought. Love this place.
11. Compost - Let it rot!
12. I look at this site as if it was a newspaper I look at the heading and if it sparks something I will read it .Today I am not interested in stay at home moms but one day I read the whole page. I open up and it say (There are 45 forums, and you are subscribed to 21 of them) but I still read some of the ones I have not subscribed to I have not participate actively yet to any of the forums but each day I am nearer to doing so Its a fun Place to relaxes
13. How about a forum for the Pacific Northwest? We are not the South but we are zone 7-8 and since we are so far north it is a unique gardening environment. Many of the posters are from the PNW.
14. The Tomatoe one sounds good to me.I have 30-35 varieties growing with seeds of over 160 varieties.
15. Thanks, Dave. Nice opportunity. I expect you realize my answers might be entirely different in a few days, a week, a month, next year. I.e. if I get some hostas, I'd be interested in active participation on a hosta forum, but I would have them as container plants. I just don't want my responses to somehow skew your results.
16. The only comment that I have is ---- I think that both of you are doing a great job with this site and so thankful that I stumbled across it. Have learned so much thru it and know that there is a lot more I can still learn from all the people here.
17. great selections
18. How about mountain states gardening
19. The more the merrier!!!
20. One of the things I kinda like about DG is that there isn't a million forums to wade through. It makes the community tighter somehow. Plus, without a ton of forums, I won't be tempted to try to read everything :) With that said, am not sure if there is already a forum for it but I read a lot of threads about gardening crafts and some people post under "general discussions" or "garden talk". Do you think it warrants a forum?
21. Dave, I doubt I will have time to post or even read much in these until late fall or winter even tho I am really interested. If I made to them once a week or every other week before then I would be doing really well. Over an acre of yardening is about all I can possibly keep up with even tho I have fair help. I am glad to see you are considering these forums tho. I might 'subscribe' to the ones I checked as a way of finding them faster. Keep up the good work, Trish and Dave. I'll be keeping you and your family in my prayers.
22. i would proably post on all these forums-doesnt mean I know anything about them at all-good ideas Dave n Trish! ;] what about a northeren garders or the midwest???? kewl beans,
23. All great ideas! :-) Go for all of them I say...that is if it is not a problem in the programing. If theorum seems to be *dead* after about 8 weeks, bury it!
24. I'm a little afraid we're getting too diversified. Sometimes I can't remember which of the dozens we are creating that I posted a question too, especially if the question gets moved to another forum. We may be over-doing things. After all we have one forum called Gardening forum, do we need a Conventional Gardening Forum? Isn't that one in the same thing?
25. Thank you for the chance to have a say in the structure of the site. I hope you have a great party and I am sorry I can not be there. I plan to learn as much as I can from the people on this site if that is ok? Best Wishes to both you and Trish.
26. I am new but, just starting to love to garden
27. If you do the Deep South, are you going to be doing different regions? I like the fact that you haven't divided into regions so folks can look at everything and not have to go to a region or zone to read. To me you will be separating us to much with regions and I think your zoning listing on the side is the best way. Please done Spikeize us! Sorry that some of us don't list the zones. as I feel with a greenhouse I can do all zones! :) Maybe a G should go by our names for those that have greenhouse! Also on the vines some are not climbers as I have basket vines that grow downward and hang? You have the newbies section where's the hard core? Please don't do this as we hard core can help the newbies better is you don't separate. Sorry! Same with conventional, where is the unconventional, to those of us that push out plants? Master gardeners how about Mother Earth Gardeners? I know of Master Gardeners that don't know what they are talking about and have given wrong information out. There is more to gardening, there has to be a love for the earth! I just love how you spring these things on us, you want our input and keep us on our toes! :) Thank you and TRish!! :) Sorry just my thoughts, wish you the best and I'll adapt! I'm a trekkie from way back! Hugs :)
28. Great choices Dave! Some that I marked as would read, but not post I would probably post as well but not as much as the ones I marked would actively participate..
29. The more forums you add, the more it needs to be organized into some kind of coherent relationship. I wouldn't add any more until you got that chore out of the way.
30. I would like to see a forum on the various philosophy-oriented questions re. gardening, as well as some humour - the LOLs I see are of self-sarcasm or personal acquaintances. Like some threads, e.g. What is a garden? Why is a small, weak, out-of-place plant so important to you while others thrive in front of you without your help?? Any way, DG is very nice as it is. Congratulations ot all involved.
31. Great list.
32. This is just a little comment Dave a forum for old poops like me who want to jabber about gardens but not to seriously. and share a laugh or two...and say hi how are y'all......!! like right now I have a hankering just to say hi and my garden looks lovely and I've been busy so couldn't pos for awhile. Did really know where to post.....Dave....Howsit going with you and Trish.....I love the hands at home forum.
33. Can I vote twice for the deep south category??? Seriously, my only concern is "stretching folks too thin" with too many forums to keep up with. Or losing some of our sense of community. But maybe we're bound to lose some of that anyway as we get bigger, and maybe the communities will build within the forums. Makes me kinda sad, but growth is a good thing. Thanks for asking!
34. A good selection Dave. Do we have Cottage Garden? Do we have Tubs and Containers?
35. Just to say that this is just so great a site and the people are just so nice.
36. One for Old Hands/Experienced Gardeners/Obsessives/Plantaholics? Maybe European Gardening? It is different - we have the same minimum winter temperatures as in Zones 7 or 8, but top temperatures of only 90-100 max, no hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, or droughts and a lot less light intensity. And we're generally more into perennials, as we have smaller gardens. And we don't start plants under lights, as we don't have basements. The UK Forum seems to be more of a general chat forum, but there don't seem to be many of these non US/UK members participating anywhere much.
37. alot of the forums that I answered 'would read, but not post' or 'not at all interested', could change with the acquisition of a single plant..i gotta say..except for machinery i would probably read everything, if only to learn
38. Dave, great list of possible new forums. Those that I marked "read but not post", I would say that I might post to a large majority but not be a regular contributor. (Just my 2 cents.) I would love to see a forum on Cottage Gardening but I am probably a minority of 1 for that forum. Hope you and Trish and kids have a great weekend!
39. I particularly like the wild plants idea, as it is my area of specialty, and I use many wildflowers in my gardening.
40. I wasn't sure how to respond to some. Most of the flower gardening type forums I would read, and post if I had something to add, but I don't know that I could say that I would actively participate. Oh, and what's a companion plant?? I talk to mine, does that make them companions??

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I agree with the person who said that the majority of the posters on the UK forum are rarely seen elsewhere. I know I don't post a great deal anywhere but I do post on a wideish range of them on the occasions that I do. I have noticed that my fellow countrymen are pretty much absent from other forums. This is a pity as many of them have a wide knowledge of gardening.

I also have a question about the possible wild flower forum, I'm a really keen collector of wild flowers from across the Northern Hemisphere (maybe I'm a species gardener rather than wild flower LOL), would this forum only be for American natives?

Keep up the good work and thanks for making this a great site for us all!

That is a good point Baa! What is wild here may be imported there! But I thought it refered to any non hybridized plant!
That would make it non locality oriented and as valuable to me in the pacific north west as to someone in th UK.