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Do you talk to other gardeners in Chat rooms?

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I was just wondering how many of you have discovered Gardenweb.com? I found the site back in 2001 when I was doing research on how we could landscape our backyard, and put in raised beds to create the garden that we have now.

In that first year, to year and a half period I spent a lot of time in the various forums trying to figure out how to do things, and what plants would work for my garden and garden location. I think it was the rose forum that I hung out in most often.

I just found another type of chatroom over at pictari.com where you could meet up with people, perhaps ones that you’ve talked to often over on gardenweb and chat in real time mode. It’s easy to use- just register or sign in and create a profile and then go into the chat areas.

That’s the one thing that I find lacking over at gardenweb. They don’t have any chat rooms for gardeners to get together and talk.

Have any of you found garden related chat rooms on the internet? If you have please leave me a comment and tell me about them.






Our Garden’s Evolution

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I joined Gardenweb in the Winter of 2001 as I was planning our garden. The following is an excerpt from my gardenweb member page:

2001

“I’ve recently purchased a house and I’m looking forward to starting my garden next year. I plan to landscape the backyard so that it will have several areas of floral plants, a vegetable garden, and a pond surrounded by a rock garden.

I’m not new to gardening- but new to creating my own garden. When I was a child my parents always had a nice vegetable garden, flowering trees, and flower beds that needed tending. We also had two very large vegetable gardens at our cottage …. so yes I have quite a bit of past experience weeding and growing vegetables in particular. ”

Well, the garden that I was dreamily planning was started in the spring of 2001 and has grown from there. Read the next post for another excerpt from my gardenweb members page regarding the progress of our garden.

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