Don't you realize that 99% of people that are looking for a tomato forum naturally look under "G" first?

But don't dare post any questions or comments about tomato diseases and pests, as they need to go under the "T" heading.

Ah, but there's no "Growing Roses" forum, no "Growing Impatiens" forum... Doesn't make sense to have a "Growing Tomatoes" forum.

Good idea, Seysonn. That distinguishes it from the pests and diseases forum yet makes it easy to find.

GW's forum index was always a patchwork of inconsistencies. Sometimes I would read the whole thing to find something that was just stuck in there with an ad hoc name years ago. Why complain now? Does it make one bit of difference? No.

Seysonn,

Not on my end... I have been visiting this forum for years, and it was always labeled "Tomatoes".

Grubby, one would just expect that the new and improved site would be new and improved. That's all.

I put the GW "Growing Tomatoes" link as a favorite button on my favorites' bar. After the first time I found the forum in the lame forum subject alphabetization, and never looked back. The URL is actually "tomato" at the end with no mention of anything else, so I even forgot about that, until getting curious to see the forum table of contents for GW under Houzz.

The alphabetization and names are more an "old GW improvement" vs. "I don't like the new contrast and layout" of the Houzz GW. I think the other Tomato Diseases forum was created separately when the forum was really clocking posts and disease questions would get buried before anyone was kind to put some time in helping ... most people looked upon diagnosing diseases as something that was tedious for active members doing the most posting, because questioners frequently omit important information and don't always understand the complexity of their problem to explain it. How often have people posted without photos, "My plants have this brown on them, what causes that?"

I am giving them time to clean these things up before I complain much, trying to learn the ropes first. It's kind of like having to learn some new software, because the change in ownership decided to completely absorb GW into their format the instant they went live and changed us up abruptly. I'm pretty sure that old legacy forum index will be changed when they get to it. For example, Tomatoes can be the forum and there can be subforums for general tomato culture, a tomato doctor forum, and maybe a tomato picture gallery or some other logical subforums, like an Amazon catalog or eBay, etc.:

Tomato

- Culture subforum

- Gallery subforum

- Plant doctor subforum

Just my 3c worth

PC

Didn't see it, clicked on tomatoes diseases and there on top were the other mater forums, that's how I found it.

It has always been "growing Tomatoes:" I have had it on my tool bar way before the change. and it is still there.. Houzz has not made any changes to the naming of the forums YET.

Seysonn

The last incarnation of Garden Web had our tomato forum listed in the Garden Forums list under both Growing Tomatoes and Tomatoes. Both opened to the same forum. I wondered why GW kept both listings. I looked first for Tomatoes when Houzz took over then remembered to check Growing Tomatoes and there it was.

One thing to note is that all my old individual bookmarks on my browser continue to open to the correct forum without going to Houzz Garden Web Forums first.

When I joined GW all those many years ago there was no Forum for tomatoes by any name for they were discussed in the Vegetable Forum, but when that Forum got filled up with mainly tomato questions then Spike, the original owner of GW, created a new Forum for tomatoes, then the new Forums for seed wants and haves, the Heirloom Forum, a photo Forum and a Pest and disease Forum.

I don't know how long I'm going to come here since I used to save several of the FAQ's to post at different sites, the How To Prevent Cross Pollination was the best, but now when I click on it, already in my faves, it starts but does not finish, meaning that one has to come to this new GW to read it. And for those who could read it for so many years it convinced them to join GW which was a good thing.

But those who advertise here depend on so many hits at the site to justify their continued advertising, and so it goes.

Carolyn

How 'bout Growing Impatient! I was just about to start a thread the same as this, when I found this one. Also, why do we have to scroll all the way down to see the recent post.......shouldn't it be the other way around? Ugh. :=)

As mnwsgal stated, there used to be links for both "Growing Tomatoes" and "Tomatoes", both leading to the same place. After the migration, only "Growing Tomatoes" remains, which seems a bit inconsistant with other forum names. We don't have "Growing Alliums" or "Growing Hot Peppers". They could probably easily correct this if they wanted to.

Carolyn...
The old link to "How To Prevent Cross Pollination" seems to be working fine for me. This is what I had for the old GW link...

http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/tomato/2005025852004159.html

Nitsua- The link itself works but if you scroll down you'll see the text is cut off in mid sentence.

Rodney

Aha! I didn't scroll down far enough to notice that. Thanks, Rodney.
I wonder if there's a character limit as to how large a post can be, which is causing this. Perhaps a forum official can comment on this.

You can, however, get the entire article via Wayback Machine at...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140330021706/http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/tomato/2005025852004159.html

yup, there it is. under BOTH 'g' and 't'

Always went to 't'

this is just for kicks

I've received official assurance that the "cut off" content in several of the FAQ links will be restored soon, so be patient. The good news - it's being worked on.