Would You Like To See A "Growin' Things" Gardening Sub Forum? Here's How..

[Old School Big Bore]

I vote yes, right next door to the cookin section.

[DHurtig]

A gardening section would be nice.

[Love Life]

I don't see why it's a bad idea. At least it would have dynamic subjects. To clarify: I vote yes.

[Trey45]

You are all being heard. This thread has been brought to the attention of the powers that be.

[Love Life]

Cool!! I like to grow stuff. Not only vegetables but flowers and stuff for the ladies in my life.

[RoyEllis]

Another yes here, just not hidden in the "Outdoorsman" section.

[square butte]

My vote is yes. I enjoy the garden talk. It's another place to connect with like minded folks and talk things over. Just like "the pit" - If you don't want to go there, then don't.

[texassako]

I would like to see it and would use it, but it seems off topic for this forum.

[waksupi]

So, we debated for months about a .22 and powder coat area. I can't believe this is even being debated here.

[DougGuy]

My vote is yes. I enjoy the garden talk. It's another place to connect with like minded folks and talk things over. Just like "the pit" - If you don't want to go there, then don't.

Very well said..

I would like to see it and would use it, but it seems off topic for this forum.

A lot of the people that use this forum are very smart, highly diverse, and very interested in things like casting, hunting, reloading, gunsmithing, and you can tell that they are VERY dedicated to their craft, some to an intense level of perfection and precision. People that have this upper intelligence are often very spread out in the things they like and understand, so it's like square butte said, a place to connect with like minded folks and talk things over. It would appear at first that forums like The Pit, Humor & Off Topic wouldn't have anything in common with casting boolits either, but given the mindset of people like us, it fits in with our many diversities and our own individual qualities. It's from that area that a lot of good sharing goes on here, so to me, forums like Cookin' Recipe's goes right along with hunting and eating wild game, or just posting a favorite recipe that you think others might like also. Same with gardening. Lots of hunters like eating what they kill, and they like growing their own veggies and herbs to cook it with so it may be off topic for the boolit casting purpose, but some of this off topicness fits in quite well with the people that cast boolits.

[Bullshop Junior]

That's the whole issue is us getting cluttered with sub forums, especially sub forums that are not related to cast boolits or handloading. I lobbied for YEARS for a rimfire area, we finally got it and it's not exactly thriving, but it's not stagnating either. I also lobbied for The Chapel and got little resistance to it, that one was easy.
I agree with the waksupi, the gardening forum would see little use during the year, maybe a few weeks in spring and a few weeks in fall would see the lions share of usage, with smatterings here and there of how does your garden grow shots during the growing season. As bullshop junior illustrated, not everyone even knows about the outdoorsman section, which in my opinion would be the place for the gardening sub forum. I still like the idea of a gardening sub forum, but for as little use as it would get, is it really worth it? Especially when gardening topics have in the past been posted in both the cooking section, and our town.

I have been here for long enough to know about the outdoorsman forum, but was making the point that its so rarely used, no one ever heard of it.

I vote No on the gardening forum. There are other forums gardening can be discussed in. I think it would just add to the spider web of sub forums, rarely get used, and just cost the side more space.

[dragon813gt]

One of the reasons that some of the forums don't get used is because there are to many of them. I routinely forget that certain ones exist.

[montana_charlie]

I don't care which way it goes.
I can ignore the new section just as easily as the other 39 subforums on this site that I already skip over.

CM

[Blacksmith]

Seams to me that gardening is an outdoor activity just like trapping or fishing so the outdoor forum is the place it should go. If you care about it you will go there which is not hard since the link right below Our Town is to the Outdoors.

[DLCTEX]

We already do a lot of discussing gardens and plants. Why not put it in a section of it's own. Yes.

[koehn,jim]

I vote yes, I would prefer it to politics. If it stagnates than get rid of it.

[Bohica793]

I vote yes. Living down south, I grow things all year long, so no so seanal for me. I imagine folks with greenhouses are the same way.

[Trey45]

I don't care which way it goes.
I can ignore the new section just as easily as the other 39 subforums on this site that I already skip over.

CM

And that's how easy it is. If it's not of interest, just don't go there, Charlie has it figured out.

[2thepoint]

I vote yes, right next door to the cookin section.

I agree.....I think it's a great idea.

Sooner or later its got to stop snowing!!

[OBIII]

I vote yes, and you already have my PM. As to the nay-sayers, Really, you would not be able to ignore a sub-forum about something that you have no interest in? As to seasonal, what about greenhouses, solar rooms, getting an early start on seedlings, etc. etc. I have been trying to grow tobacco on a few occasions, and am having basically no success. Why go to another site when there are people here with all the info I could probably ever need. Do we need a sub-fourm for everything? No. But reloading and casting is a life style, one part of which leads to self-sufficiency. Self-sufficiency means being able to feed yourself as well as protect yourself.

OB