On 2009-05-16 15:27:00 +0100, David Rance
said:

Sorry, I missed a bit:

On Sat, 16 May 2009 K wrote:

But maybe people would like to renew some of the FAQs completely. After
all, it was always something which the membership of this group
contributed to and was a way of making their experience more permanent
while avoiding unnecessary repetition of the same questions time after
time.

It never worked, though ;-) We were still besieged by people wanting us
to sit down and pen instant answers because they were unwilling to do
an elementary search.

That's a little unfair. "Besieged" is a little bit of hyperbole and I'm
sure they didn't expect *instant* answers. And you don't know how many
people did consult those pages without bothering us. Come on, I thought
gardeners were optimistic people! :-)

If I didn't think it was worthwhile I wouldn't have spent hours this
week tracking these missing FAQs down and then formatting them. And I
have been a reader here for around thirteen years and have valued them
myself. (And my welcome to this group when I wrote my first message
back in 1996 was that two people violently disagreed with my views on
the growing of mistletoe, both of whom still write here and one of whom
called me an idiot!)

And David Rance wrote:

And they all work now.

I meant, all the links work now!

Best wishes, David

It occurs to me that we could do with a FAQ on growing tomatoes and
cucumbers because I've noticed that we seem to have a lot more people
doing that now and coming to urg for advice. Several of our more
experienced gardeners are old hands at this so perhaps one of them
would like to write a tomato and cucumber FAQ? And perhaps we need
one on growing e.g. squashes? What does the team think? ;-))
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