Suggestion: Upper Midwest Regional Forum?

Hello fellow northerners! I'm in southeast Wisconsin. It would be great to chat with those that share the same zone as me.

Suzanne

Count me in......I like the idea of Regional forums. If my vote counts at
all, I'd go with Upper Midwest region for our area.
Vic

Count me in for Upper Midwest :)

Wheeeeeee! We're closing on a possible 45-50 participants!!! (OK, so I've only counted 43...LOL)

Can't wait!

~julie~

I don't want to divide it Julie, if you think you fit, join in, if not, beg for another forum like we did.

Gayle, you'd *better not* kick ME out of this region!! LOL (Oh...now I see what you were saying..."nevermind")

~julie~

Hello
Thanks to Gardengeek who emailed me about this forum. Count me in, I am interested.

Mary

Count me in & it doesn't make any difference what you call it because if anyone that wants to be part of the forum can jump in anytime. Here in the midwest everyone knows that when winter starts in comes from the north & spreads south!! SO it doesn't make much difference where you want to draw the line as who should belong in any certin area.
Jerry.

Don't get online on weekends, so I'm late........
I'm interested, too....but wouldn't this be more effective it it were by *zone* rather than by region?

Seems that each state has at least 2 zones....some more!

OOps...just noticed that Gardengeek has basically suggested the same idea......I think that's more practical...just my $.02

This message was edited Oct 24, 2005 11:58 AM

Thanks Terry & Dave!

I can't wait to get started in our "Upper Midwest" forum. Just think of all the posting we will be doing this winter in it!

(and I'm really really hoping that when it is set up it has thumbnails, hint hint, heh heh)

Thumbnails??? Have I missed something else?

(Gayle...I already have a BIG list of questions to start off the new forum with. How about you?)

~julie~

Great Idea! I would contribute what I can. Count me in!

The Upper Midwest Gardening Forum is up and running!

http://davesgarden.com/forums/f/region_umw/

I looked but I couldn't find the place to add the new forum to my 'watched' list.

~julie~

Go to "My Info" then click on "Manage your preferences" - one of the choices on the left is "Forums"

Thanks Terry....I knew it was there someplace. ;-)

~julie~

Or on your home page, up towards the top it says "There are XXX forums and you are watching XXX of them. The watching is a link to what you are looking for.

Thanks Joan...I got it now. :-)

~julie~

Sorry Terry, I didn't mean to step on your toes by mentioning the 'watching' link. I just think it's way cool! :)

Thanks for bringing it up - it's an even easier way to update your list ;o)

Hi All,

Glad to see the second link worked that I d-mailed to all my Wisconsin friends and also glad to see you here.

I haven't been counting and by the looks of this thread it would almost be an impossible task to do so LOL,,,,,And guess what,,,,we don't have to,,,,,yeeehaa meet you in the new Forum

Kelly

Sounds great to me. I'll look forward to seeing you at the forum!

Well I was just about to offer up my support for the forum and I guess I am a little too late!
Its nice to have a place to go.
ty everyone

Sounds like a good idea to me Ann in Iowa

You are going to love you own forum - (sorry Terry) - but on the Texas forum I find out so much more about my area and I get to meet peole in and near me. We have the same issues, the same plants do good and most of the same plants fail. It is the best feature on Daves and well worth all the begging!

Well, now that Terry & Dave have managed to shoo all those midwesteners off to their own forum, I guess those of us in the Northwest had better really start working on our own forum or at least a thread of our own. What do you think, Northwesters? I know that our climate is often much more Mediterranean than any of the others (you know, rain and/or snow in the winter, fall & spring, dry in the summer) and plants that do well in equivilent zones the rest of the country can often fail in ours - and visa versa. Dotti

Why not start a new thread about that, Dotti? This one is kinda long. *hint* :-)

I don't know how. Will you please? Please??? Dotti

Dotti, you can do it. Trust me! :-)

Just go back to the Dave's Garden forum index and scroll down to the bottom where it says "Starting a new topic". It's a similar box to the one used to reply here in this thread.

Besides, it's your idea and you'll automatically have the new thread added to your watched list. :-)

Donna

Zone 3a Gordon, WI

Though I love, and have lived in Iowa and Missouri, I am now in Wisconsin, about 40 miles SE of Duluth and directly in line with the winds that blow north to south across Lake Superior. With a growing Zone 3a, I would find it most helpful to exchange ideas and information with gardeners from similar and colder zones, as I know that whatever will grow in zones 1-3 will grow in my garden!

Can stateside gardeners join the Canadian forum? Or can Ontario join with the Upper Midwest/Central Canada forum?

And can we include Michigan (it was not an option under choice C), but the Upper Pennisula especially is similar to WI, MN. and Ontario.

This message was edited Oct 25, 2005 12:22 AM

Might as well, there are a bunch on here.

Dotti started a new thread requesting a Northwest Forum here: http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/553399/

Way to go, Dotti! :)

I would like are own forum , count me in.

Here you go kess--
http://davesgarden.com/forums/f/region_umw/

The new forum is here: http://davesgarden.com/forums/f/region_umw/ - since this request has already been handled, I'm going to close this thread to any new replies ;o)