On 10 Mar, 00:30, Anne Jackson wrote:
Surely it is better to offer no advice at all, than to tell someone
something which is, at best, misleading?

I think you're confusing 'misleading' with one own experience. You
said rhubarb can grow in a pot because you have one growing on your
compost heap. There's a difference. I ddin't criticise you for it, but
it's obvious you are not understanding the difference.

My experiences are only there to be shared, not to be scrutinised word
for word. When you go down the thread, you end up reading more or less
what I have said in the first place. Why is that I cannot say what I
think even though it's the same thing you, and others, are going to
say?

No-one that I know is an expert with knowledge of _everything_ to do
with gardening. The people with the most knowledge tend to be the
most modest.

If everybody was as modest as you think they are or should be, there
wouldn't be a gardening forum to start with. This place is to share
and give advice. I don't feel I give professional advice, I feel that
I give my experiences based on the way I grow food stuff. I don't post
in thread for machinery, nursery grown flowers nor glass houses
because I don't have experiences in them.

I live in the UK, not in Australia. I live in Greater Manchester, not
in Scotland. I think we should all bear in mind where we are and
therefore the different ways of growing things.