What is "GW"?

[mresseguie]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

tom

[Tomstrees]

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]

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

[gardenmaniac]

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

[Worth1]

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]

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...

[Lee]

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

[MawkHawk]

Tif, GW removes posts that mention Tomatoville specifically. That's all I meant. Just kidding around.....

[Fusion_power]

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

[feldon30]

I feel a bit like a broken record with this, but I see no ads when I visit GW.

I have this file stored in my C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc\ folder which blocks ~1,200 malicious/advertising websites from my computer. It makes browsing the Internet a wholly different experience.

[Earl]

Tiff, Mark was kidding. :-) I even go back once in awhile. Kinda like driving by the ol' house your parents kicked you/me/them/us out of. :-)