Please check out my trade list below your want list I to have winter squash & pumpkin to trade Marj (wolfcub)

but only the veggie forum for anyone interested in anything other than gourds. What about Edible Landscape, Community Gardens, Four Season Vegetable Gardening, Potager Gardens, Organic (maybe even the farm forum or companion plants)Square Foot gardening, Asian Vegitables? It's hardly just the veggie forum there are plenty of forums (fori?)where these posts would be appropriate. Heck there's a post in Companion Plants (about Squash & Cukes) from July that was just responded to on the 16th of this month. Your audience is pretty fragmented as it is- adding more forums won't really help. I think the thing that needs to be addressed is getting people to think about where they should post. You mentioned houseplants in your example and I see a lot of people will post there about succulents while we're limping along in C&S forum getting a trickle every now and then of new threads and participants. The problem isn't that there aren't enough forums it's that there's too many options which leads to member fragmentation which leads to slow forums or not enough participation in your area that would create an enjoyable visit for you. What GW needs are more mods that can move threads to the appropriate area and send a friendly message stating something along the lines of "I moved your post to XYZ so you would reach people that share your interest."

You haven't missed it. I e-mailed sunnyk and she said she couldn't do a good job of it until the new year, but it'd be ok for someone else to step in if they want to do it now. We're all volunteers...

Update! Finally got away from the Christmas prep to get that squash cooked. I put it on a foil covered baking sheet at 350 for about 20 minutes. No hole punched or anything. Still very hard, put back in for another 20 minutes and was able to cut in half with my chef's knife. Cleaned out the seeds, did not peel, and continued roasting for another 20 minutes or so. Now the squash/pumpkin I cooked was a named "sweet meat". I have never had this squash before and it tasted a bit bitter. Not sure if it was because it was cooked with the skin on or if that is just the way it tastes. Not so bitter that it can't be eaten, just has a slight bitter taste. Anyway, success in cooking that thing with no loss of limb or blood! And no power tools involved! Now I know how to cook the others that I have. I greatly appreciate the replies to my post. Murphy