can we form a "gardening and lawn" forum?
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Anonymous
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I would like to see more intelligent discussion here on this topic in general.
Whenever anyone asks a landscape question, there's always some curmudgeon who says, "Do it yourself...It's not that hard." |
Anonymous
| +1 |
Anonymous
Nice! Thanks! |
Anonymous
| I would love to balance all of the whining and school-slamming and gross news articles with a lively and informative garden and lawn forum. |
Anonymous
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Does anyone know of any existing gardening forums? Located elsewhere? Newbie here, would love to know where to start
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Anonymous
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OP here. Im sure there are gardening forums elsewhere. The convenience of having one on DCUM would be that people already on the list could post topics knowing they would not get lost in the shuffle.
Topics could include container gardening vegetable gardening organic pest control soil composition and chemistry challenge plants landscape challenges shade vs sun plants perennials and annuaaaals garden design ideas good first garden for newbie (tolerant plants) climate and weather challenges (longer hotter summer) solar powered fountain pumps creating a pond / water garden correct timing for seasonal gardening maintenance (people could share what they are doing when they are doing it/ask questinos) canning those excess tomatos for winter herb garden keeping pests from the garden window gardens indoor terrarium gardens This is off the top of my head I cant see how this would not be of interest to lots and lots of people |
Anonymous
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OP again. Big Duh on my end: Maybe better would be Gardening and Plants? Then we add indoor plants to the mix year round as well as indoor gardening like growing herbs, window gardens. etc.
Then there are greenhouses. DIY greenhouses are interesting and again, year round. |
Anonymous
| this would be great! |
Anonymous
| I vote for this, although I tend to vote for every new forum someone suggests lol. |
Anonymous
GardenWeb is good I would appreciate one more for rank amateurs like me, though. It would also be helpful to have on that is metro DC focused in terms of gardening zones, the clay soil so many of us have, raised planting beds, how to deal with English Ivy and bamboo (YUK!), and of course helping gardens deal with the horrid August heat. |
Anonymous
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I'd also like this forum to give recommendations on landscaping companies both for flower beds and lawns -- not just design/installation, but also for ongoing maintenance.
While I am working on learning how to do it myself, I do find that I need some help from time to time. And I also had some terrible poison ivy last year that has made me wary of working outside because I could never find the PI or whatever was making my skin react. |
Anonymous
| I think it should be combined with the real estate forum. Like Home and Garden! |
Anonymous
+1 on gardening and plants |
Anonymous
another vote for Gardenweb http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/ you can search by name of plant or by theme. very serious gardeners there, also from our areas. I also vote for a garden forum on DCUM, I posted questions in the past in the RE forum, but a dedicated forum would be great |
Anonymous
| Good idea. |