What is "GW"?

mresseguie · March 6, 2007

Hello.

Sorry to bother you with this, but I have read multiple posts with references to "GW". I know it is a forum (perhaps similar to this one?). I have Googled GW, and doubt you are all talking about "Guild Wars" or "Grey Wolf" market analysis.

So save me from losing sleep at night, please!

Humbly yours,

Michael in <today> the very sunny Willamette Valley in Oregon.

gardenmaniac · March 6, 2007

I believe GW refers to GardenWeb. You can find it at www.gardenweb.com There is a tomato forum there as well as many other garden subjects you can check out. Perhaps you have already been there?

Tiffanie

mresseguie · March 6, 2007

Hello, Tiffanie.

Thank you so much for the link. I am quite sure I've never been there before.

That's a lovely hole in the ground-just imagine the size of the turnip that could grow in it!

Michael

feldon30 · March 6, 2007

This forum was created because the Tomato forum at GardenWeb didn't really suit our needs anymore. Books could be written about it.

Lots of the advice given there anymore is bad advice.

I do check out GW periodically, especially the immensely helpful Fruit forum, specifically the posts by Don Yellman.

tjg911 · March 6, 2007

personally, i agree with feldon re gw tomato forum. this place is much better!

tom

Tomstrees · March 6, 2007

Brent Walston (Bonsai Guru) ref. me to Garden Web to the BONSAI section a few years ago - I've thanked him because I got a lot of great advice from those threads ~

Eventually I meandered my way over to the Tomato forum -
Then in the Conversation area there was a thread that was linked to here ~ Sometimes I go back just to see whats what ~

My biggest beef was I got sick of the "Kraft Maccaroni & Cheese ads" ~ lol

~ Tom

MawkHawk · March 6, 2007

Mischka should ban Tiffanie from TV for providing the GW link. heh heh heh....

Worth1 · March 6, 2007

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Originally Posted by MawkHawk

Mischka should ban Tiffanie from TV for providing the GW link. heh heh heh....

That’s funny but as we all know, to do like GW is to be like GW, so, ‘as we aren’t, we rise above their totalitarian ways to a place better than the big BS bushiness they have turned in to.

It is still a great place for things other than tomatoes.

Worth

gardenmaniac · March 6, 2007

Michael- I had fun choosing my avatar. We have hard clay in our yard and have to dig extra big holes to plant everything

. I feel like every week I am digging another big hole! That hole now has an apple tree in it. I gave up digging for the vegetables and put in raised beds. I loved your turnip comment

!

Tomatoville is better than GW on many levels, but I still visit the GW harvest forum every now and then to get great recipes. I also appreciate that Carolyn spends a lot of time answering the same questions over and over and over on the tomato forum.... I have learned a lot about tomatoes just from reading her posts while "lurking" on GW.

I agree though, the ads are really obnoxious

. Once they started animating things, I stopped going except when I need to have a question answered.

Tiffanie

gardenmaniac · March 6, 2007

Sorry if I offended anybody providing that link. I had no idea I stepped into a hornet's nest. I guess I can use the "I'm new to TV" excuse.

Tiffanie- jumping into her latest giant hole and hanging her head in shame...

Fusion_power · March 6, 2007

No need to be ashamed. The restrictions on this forum are against posting political or religion motivated comments. Otherwise, several of us still go to gardenweb on occasion.

I'm just like the rest of the people who have seen the "south beach diet" in your face ad one time too many. That is the big reason why I don't like GW.

Fusion

Ruth_10 · March 6, 2007

Tiffanie, relax, no one will come to break your kneecaps.

GW often reminded me of junior high--that kind of level of behavior. Probably 90% of the people who post here came from there, and many go back from time to time to read. Some got kicked off.

Tomatoville is run way, way better. It's a cool place.

pooklette · March 6, 2007

I still visit GW once in a while but I rarely post. Given that it's been around for so long, it can be quite a handy resource. There are a lot of helpful threads buried in there (from long ago.) I don't often comment in current threads at the tomato forum though because it seems like many of the them disintegrate into sniping and/or character bashing very quickly. And the ads at GW make my firewall very cranky indeed...sigh.

**Mischka** · March 7, 2007

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Originally Posted by gardenmaniac

Sorry if I offended anybody providing that link. I had no idea I stepped into a hornet's nest. I guess I can use the "I'm new to TV" excuse.

Tiffanie- jumping into her latest giant hole and hanging her head in shame...

As other folks have already said, you have nothing to be ashamed of, whatsoever.

Although GardenWeb's new owners (the Village Idiots aka IVillage) have banned me, as well as any reference, link or mention of Tomatoville®, I do not feel threatened or become upset by anyone mentioning them here.

To be honest, I even enjoy rattling their cage on occasion, as anyone here will tell you.

I like to think of GardenWeb's tomato forum as a public high school, whereas Tomatoville® is more like an Ivy League university...without the exorbitant tuition bills.

**Lee** · March 6, 2007

No need to appologize Tiffanie. GW has some obnoxious policies that have rubbed people raw since it was sold to IVillage. I was lucky to have had an active registration when it was sold, so I've never had the ad problems everyone else has seen.
Regardless, there's still some good information to be found there and you shouldn't fret about answering the question.

Lee

March 6, 2007	#1
mresseguie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Oregon Posts: 159	What is "GW"? Hello. Sorry to bother you with this, but I have read multiple posts with references to "GW". I know it is a forum (perhaps similar to this one?). I have Googled GW, and doubt you are all talking about "Guild Wars" or "Grey Wolf" market analysis. So save me from losing sleep at night, please! Humbly yours, Michael in <today> the very sunny Willamette Valley in Oregon. __________________ Learning to speak tomato! Got compost?

March 6, 2007	#3
mresseguie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Oregon Posts: 159	Hello, Tiffanie. Thank you so much for the link. I am quite sure I've never been there before. That's a lovely hole in the ground-just imagine the size of the turnip that could grow in it! Michael __________________ Learning to speak tomato! Got compost?

March 6, 2007	#6
Tomstrees Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NJ Bayshore Posts: 3,848	Brent Walston (Bonsai Guru) ref. me to Garden Web to the BONSAI section a few years ago - I've thanked him because I got a lot of great advice from those threads ~ Eventually I meandered my way over to the Tomato forum - Then in the Conversation area there was a thread that was linked to here ~ Sometimes I go back just to see whats what ~ My biggest beef was I got sick of the "Kraft Maccaroni & Cheese ads" ~ lol ~ Tom __________________ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~ H. Fred Ale

March 6, 2007	#7
MawkHawk Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: Metro Detroit/Z6 Posts: 168	Mischka should ban Tiffanie from TV for providing the GW link. heh heh heh.... __________________ Mark

March 6, 2007	#12
Ruth_10 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: MO z6a near St. Louis Posts: 1,349	Tiffanie, relax, no one will come to break your kneecaps. GW often reminded me of junior high--that kind of level of behavior. Probably 90% of the people who post here came from there, and many go back from time to time to read. Some got kicked off. Tomatoville is run way, way better. It's a cool place. __________________ --Ruth Some say the glass half-full. Others say the glass is half-empty. To an engineer, it’s twice as big as it needs to be.

March 6, 2007	#2
gardenmaniac Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: North Florida Posts: 82	I believe GW refers to GardenWeb. You can find it at www.gardenweb.com There is a tomato forum there as well as many other garden subjects you can check out. Perhaps you have already been there? Tiffanie

March 6, 2007	#4
feldon30 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 5,346	This forum was created because the Tomato forum at GardenWeb didn't really suit our needs anymore. Books could be written about it. Lots of the advice given there anymore is bad advice. I do check out GW periodically, especially the immensely helpful Fruit forum, specifically the posts by Don Yellman.

March 6, 2007	#5
tjg911 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: zone 5b northwest connecticut Posts: 2,570	personally, i agree with feldon re gw tomato forum. this place is much better! tom

March 6, 2007	#11
Fusion_power Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,250	No need to be ashamed. The restrictions on this forum are against posting political or religion motivated comments. Otherwise, several of us still go to gardenweb on occasion. I'm just like the rest of the people who have seen the "south beach diet" in your face ad one time too many. That is the big reason why I don't like GW. Fusion

March 6, 2007	#13
pooklette Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Zone 5 Posts: 262	I still visit GW once in a while but I rarely post. Given that it's been around for so long, it can be quite a handy resource. There are a lot of helpful threads buried in there (from long ago.) I don't often comment in current threads at the tomato forum though because it seems like many of the them disintegrate into sniping and/or character bashing very quickly. And the ads at GW make my firewall very cranky indeed...sigh.

March 6, 2007	#15
Lee Tomatopalooza™ Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NC-Zone 7 Posts: 2,188	No need to appologize Tiffanie. GW has some obnoxious policies that have rubbed people raw since it was sold to IVillage. I was lucky to have had an active registration when it was sold, so I've never had the ad problems everyone else has seen. Regardless, there's still some good information to be found there and you shouldn't fret about answering the question. Lee __________________ Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad. Cuostralee - The best thing on sliced bread.