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Old 20-08-2006, 10:40 AM
kevin kevin is offline
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First recorded activity by GardenBanter: Feb 2003
Location: Harrow, Middx
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Hello, and welcome to GardenBanter.

You found the right place to post.

It sounds like we have similar sized gardens, although I have not had a good gardening year due to mass disruption caused by builders (I am having an extension built this summer) and a hosepipe ban (I live in Middx). The upshot is the garden has had to fend for itself with almost no involvement from me, however some things have continued to thrive while others couldn't take the drought.

One of the more unique things about GardenBanter is that it is a mirror of the usenet gardening newsgroups. That means that posts made here are disrubuted to all the other mirrors (and there are lots of them) so everything has a wide audience. This tends to get good responses to questions or queries as it goes boeyond just the GardenBanter readership. This also means that many people will not have heard of GardenBanter, but will still be reading or replying to your message! As people will be reading this in different ways (e.g. through a newsreader rather than a website forum) you are forced to 'quote' the message you are replying to (but feel free to snip this). This is because not everyone will be reading it in a linear style (first message to last message) as you do in GardenBanter, so you always need some context to your replies.

I have thought about adding a pond, and read regularly the pond forums here, but so far I have resisted the temptation. I am afraid of 1) Getting addicted and 2) It becoming high maintainance. Maybe next year...

I did used to lurk occasionally at A4ALL, but I had not visited in quite a while. What happened to it?