Gardening Form?

Coyote

Is there a change that a Gardening form could be setup?
I think that a number of people would be interested in it and their doses not seem to be a form for it.

There is a such a large number of people on the boards now that I think that it could be a great place for people just asking a few small questions too people wanting to know a lot more.

What you can grow in your area, when to plant, from a window box to a garden, indoors and outdoors, tropical and local plants.
Ok so most of you are not going to be green fingers but then most people are not going to be tech either but they still need some where to ask questions.

Coyote

DeVore

If you (or I) can find a Gardening site in Ireland which would be willing to mod the forum and/or partner with us (ie we link to them, they link to us) then I've no objection.

DeV.

Toulouse

Coyote you nerd

Coyote

whats wrong with wanting to learn about gardening, growing things and hydroponics :P

amp

I need help growing certain.... plants, in certain.... concealed locations. Therefore this product and/or service gains my wholehearted seal of support and/or approval. That is all.

b20uvkft6m5xwg

Could turn into a....
"Where can i buy heat lamps for hemp by-product growing;)"

nonetheless, could do no harm- could increase traffic to the boards if you really worked on finding a good partner site.

Coyote

well I will look but i'm not sure that there is a any sort of garndeing board that i have see so far. but I will keep looking.

PhilipMarlowe

Finally... it has come to pass....

The main (?) garden forum I'd guess is on www.garden.ie
It's a site that is run by Gerry Daly/The Irish Garden Magazine...

IMO, the site & especially the forum sucks... you have to register even to lurk, the search feature on the site only lets you search for public pages (ie, not the forum)....
There is a plant locator facility there... you register, nominate a garden centre, ask a question, your nominated garden centre gets emailed the question and can log in and reply, as can any other garden centre involved with the site.... but IMO the system is pants...
Like, we, (a member garden centre), don't always automagically™ get notified of new requests and stuff.... and the site isn't interesting enough to check very often, though there is some good "to do" kind of advice and stuff on there....

There was also going to be a retail site launched last year backed by a sucessful Irish PLC and linked to several member garden centres which would have been better in general and was probably a better concept but it fell before the first hurdle. Their logo looked pretty though

I'd obviously say that a forum on here would be a good idea - as boards.ie grows and the users get older and stuff, more of this kind of thing is going to become more interesting to them, whether they want it to or not [cue evil laughter].

Admins choice whether a casual forum on here or one enclosed in another site is the best idea...

Stephen

Licksy for greenfingers mod!

Gavin

Originally posted by DeVore
If you (or I) can find a Gardening site in Ireland which would be willing to mod the forum and/or partner with us (ie we link to them, they link to us) then I've no objection.

DeV.

I just happen to know a Horticulturist with a h Dip in computing that would probably be willing to do it.

Gav

Pablo

i'd read this one too

PhilipMarlowe

Originally posted by 80project
Could turn into a....
"Where can i buy heat lamps for hemp by-product growing;)"

That's a question we sometimes get via email; "I need a lamp so I can grow my herbs year round and I was wondering could you tell me where I might get one?"

Coyote

Originally posted by Verb


I just happen to know a Horticulturist with a h Dip in computing that would probably be willing to do it.

Gav

any chance we could get him ?


Coyote

stereo_steve

I think its a great idea! I love carniverous plants! Would love to find out more about them! I don't suppose anyone knows why my pitcher plant isn't doing to great? Its bits keep going black! Its tradgic really!

PhilipMarlowe

Leaves going black is a sign of stress, due to feeding it strange stuff or possibly watering (not enough or else impure water?).

[cartman voice] See here, here, and here [/cartman voice]

stereo_steve

No its not that. I always give them rain water or if I can't get any I boil some tap water first. I think that its just the time of year. They are tropical plants and probably are in need of more heat. They will probably pick up as the summer comes. Thanks for the help though

DadaKopf

Yes, I've known Coyote for years and I can tell you he is a very keen gardener. He's won all sorts of awards for his rhodadendrons and has successfully cross-bred a pea with a rhinocerous.

These boards needs a gardening forum and Coyote is the man to mow this forum into shape. Call him the digital topiarist!

tulip

Originally posted by Coyote


any chance we could get him ?


Coyote

:eek: Hey there, I've just joined boards when I heard you might be setting up a garden forum......I've a background in horticulture now working in IT (long story...don't ask!!)...I'd like to help out if thats any good to you???

Gavin

Originally posted by tulip


:eek: Hey there, I've just joined boards when I heard you might be setting up a garden forum......I've a background in horticulture now working in IT (long story...don't ask!!)...I'd like to help out if thats any good to you???

This would be the person i was talking about So is there anything happening then with this board.. DeVore ?

Gav

Cloud

Let's have a community forum for it for a while so.