maureen, it seems that function hasn't worked since the change-over of GW to the new owner. i am amazed at how many searches i attempt, even to look for something i know i posted, and i don't get the match. i guess the site got improved in other areas??????? maryanne/earthly

The only thing Dave has said that I can disagree with, is that it's 'simple' to find all your posts by typing in your user name in a search. Yes, it does bring up all your posts, but it doesn't bring them up in chronological order. If you've been here for years as many have, you could have many pages of posts to review before you might stumble upon your most recent posts. I gave up on trying to find my posts in that way. I did decide to 'check the box' on each thread I post to, so that it will be sent to my email. That was not easy either. I had to contact support because after repeated efforts to set my account to allow emails, it wasn't changing it. Once I did contact Tamara, they did change it and now I do get emails for the threads I'm following. But, I don't always get them and sometimes they come into my email box days later. lol But, for now, that is working the best so far for trying to keep up with threads I am following. But my email box is now needing a lot more time weeding out. I use the Cornell site to read reviews on different vegetable varieties and like that site. I have however started following others' suggestions that Google/Gardenweb searches turn up better results than GW and have found that works better for me sometimes. I try the search function and if the results are just too random and I find myself *sighing*, I just start a new thread and ask for what I need. edit: I see someone above has said, that sometimes other members 'insist I do a search'. I have rarely had that happen to me, thankfully. My way of looking at it is, that every subject we discuss is a repeat of some earlier discussion. Some of the forums, especially over the winter, are so inactive, that any discussion is a bonus, even a repeat one. If we all did searches and found the answers we needed, we wouldn't need to be discussing live every day. And btw, even if you find posts on the subject you are looking for, they are not always giving you what you want. Sometimes there will be 3 posts on a thread. Or the exact question you wanted to ask was not discussed. Or the person on the forum with the most experience was not on that day. This post was edited by prairiemoon2 on Fri, Jun 27, 14 at 17:07

In case that didn't make sense... I did a search for Poisondartfrog. The result came up: poisondartfrog A+ Â Posted by: windsurfgirl z6 OK on Wed, Mar 14, 07 at 13:23 Â 18 follow-ups, last one posted on Wed, Oct 24, 07 at 19:13 I just did an exchange with poisondartfrog for some Artemisa Limelight. It was a nice clump of roots as she told me it would be. It even had nice healthy green sprouts popping up. I was very happy with it and the way it was packaged. She shipped i The last post was on Oct. 24, 07 So I clicked on page 9 taking a guess. It was the end of Nov. So I clicked on page 16 which was the beginning of Oct. So I knew was in between and got to page 13 where I could add to the post if I had wanted to. : ) Remy

Forgot to add that the ?# that is supposed to follow .html on messages that reside on forums2.gardenweb.com is also missing, i.e., the results returned: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/exseed/msg0118570514094.html and it should have been http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/exseed/msg0118570514094.html?1