wrote:

I just wished they were more people attracted to this forum from
city farms and urban community gardens etc. It doesn't seem to
interest many people here and I just don't know why. Perhaps you know?

I don't know, but I'd had the impression that allotmenteers were fairly
well represented here. Perhaps even disproportionately so.

Pulling a figure out of the air, what, 50% of all 25 million UK
households have access to a garden? How many allotments are there?
250000? On those made up figures, 1 in 50 posters on urg could be
expected to be an allotmenteer. I'm sure you're doing much better than
that

Where will all these posters come from? If they're in urg already, how
come they apparently aren't giving out better advice right now? If
they're allotmenteers and likely to use Usenet, how come they're not
posting in urg already?

I don't know!

I think those who would post to urga are already posting to urg.
Usenauts are a tiny and shrinking minority amongst people on the
internet. Allotmenteers are a minority of "gardeners". A shrinking
minority of a minority does not make for a successful newsgroup.

Peter