On 08/10/2013 19:09, Christina Websell wrote:
"Janet" wrote in message
t...
In article , MrRoberts.cc9c0a7
@gardenbanter.co.uk says...

What's the point of running a forum if you cannot be bothered to help
others?

RTFM

This is not a forum and nobody runs it.

This is an unmoderated usenet discussion group, NOT an obligated
advisory service.

Usenet groups are not the property of gardenbanter, they existed years
before gardenbanter and are completely independent of it.

But.. completely innocent people are posting to GardenBanter, not knowing
they ship the posts out to urg and then get surprised and upset when they
get attacked by urglers.

It's not so easy to get a newsgroup account these days, most UK ISPs don't
support them now so new people might not even know that Usenet exists.

My ISP stopped supporting newsgroups years ago so I went with
news.individual.net but if you came in fresh, so to speak, it will seem
quite OK to post a question on GardenBanter.
I know we all don't like it but instead of making GardenBanter posters feel
small (which they aren't expecting) we should raise the issue with
GardenBanter rather than attack the posters who think they are posting to a
site that will help them. IMO.

Tina

Quite right.
But when people are just to bone idle to look up something on google and
expect others to do it for them, then I do wonder if they get someone
else to read the replies for them as well.
People with genuine gardening questions are always welcome, and will
mostly get at least one reply to their query.
People should always give as much detail as they can in their question,
a picture is worth a thousand words, well quite a few. but you can't
post pictures directly to urg, so save then to something like
Photobucket then post a link.
Many of us have a fair bit of horticultural knowledge but none of us
posses a crystal ball.
It helps to say where in the world you are, what part of GB as close as
you can, not just Scotland as the weather and conditions can vary widely
from one part to another.
Soil Type
Position in the garden
Size of garden. I remember having 2 customers come in at the same time
looking for plants for their rock gardens, both said they had a "tidy
size", turned out one was around 6ft by 3ft, the other was over 60ft long.
If in doubt then pace it out before asking the question.
Another man came in for hedging plants, I asked how tall he wanted the
hedge to grow, He dithered for a minute or two raising and lowering his
hand by his side then finally stopped it at waist height and said "About
6ft".
David