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How do you get the gardening information that you need?

9 years ago

Hi everyone! I'm new to gardenweb, Houzz, whatever...but I'm wondering, if you are looking for gardening information do you get it mainly from this site, other sites, or somewhere completely different? Gardening magazines are nice (my husband loves Mother Earth News) but they can be pricey. This seems like a really nice discussion forum, just from what I've seen so far. I can't believe all of the discussion topics that are on here; it's pretty cool.

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zzackey
9 years ago
I learn alot on here. I google things I'm interested in. I receive a newsletter every week form Dave's Garden. Where do you live? I'm just 8 miles over the border of Florida/Georgia so I lean towards Florida info. Floridata is a good site. I use IFIS alot too. It is not very user friendly, but all of their info has been tested at the University of Florida.
tanya117
Original Author
9 years ago
I live in Southwestern Indiana. We got just over 6 inches of snow today...yuck!

I'll have to check out Dave's Garden. I'm new to this website, Houzz, but I agree with you, it has a lot of good information and there are lots of topics to choose from.
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tanya117
Original Author
9 years ago
Thanks for the tip about Dave's Garden, they have a lot of information as well. I also signed up on Helpful Gardener's website, too. I never realized so many gardening communities were available online. I'm sure to learn something about gardening now.
purslanegarden
9 years ago
I tend to spend time on this site so that I begin to absorb some general information even if I wasn't looking for it specifically. When I do have a specific question, I'll ask it on here or search it on Google.

Also I have a dual monitor setup for my PC area so even while I'm doing one thing on it, such as browsing this site, I'll also have some Youtube videos playing on some gardening topic, so I'll listen and pay attention as needed.
tanya117
Original Author
9 years ago
Oh, I never thought about Youtube, I will have to look at that, also. Thanks!
zzackey
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
tanya I just tried to get on the Helpful Gardener's site and it claims I am a spammer and that I'm black listed. I had another site tell me that. What gives?
tanya117
Original Author
9 years ago
I don't know, I haven't had that happen to me. The Helpful Gardener site said something about if you don't post more than once that they will delete your account for being inactive, which seems extreme to me. I just logged into my account there (same name: tanya117), I didn't have any problems so far. The way that they treated you seems very wrong. You might try emailing them at: admin@helpfulgardener.com to see if you can get them to restore your account.

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