Where do you look for answers?

[veggiechicken]

In the old days, before t'internet, all my questions would be answered in books. If I didn't have the right book, I'd borrow it from the library.
Now I go to Goggle and, if its a gardening question, the Forum.
Or there's Farcebook groups or tweeter, and probably other sites that I don[t know about!
I'm curious to know which you use, and prefer!

[Nicos]

Mostly gooooogle!

But- I do enjoy that on forums you have specific sections you can home in on for advice, so it's easy to find similar questions and answers....and on the better sites you have a quick turn around of replies/thoughts.
I'm pretty impatient in my hunger for responses to queries, so that helps me decide which forums I visit/join.

I also belong to a couple of family tree forums so , yes, I do ask questions there too...but even there you may need to wait a week to get a few replies.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

When I took up this gardening Marlarky on what I would call a semi serious note, it began with iplayer, mainly GW and Beechgrove, but then discovered "Forums" which to me at the time was an all new concept.

I lurked in the background a few years, reading posts etc, But then decided one day to leap in!

So Forums for me were good! But I don't know if you all remember when the BBC shut down their boards? and the GW boards got overwhelmed with people transferring over! Happy for a few weeks, then the snarling between various posters started!

Which is why I find myself here! Can read if I want n not get involved, get involved if I want to! All in all a very happy place to be!

So for me! Here and if answers specific! Safari being a ipad user!

[Jungle Jane]

Before the Internet,I just used to ask my dad everything. He knows everything,even maths I have noticed now I'm older that if he doesn't know something,he'l still carry on like he does & you're none the wiser. Except I am now so I can see it happen,its funny. I google everything now,I thought my boiler was making a beeping noise the other day,phoned my dad,he used to sell boilers & plumbing stuff,he didn't know,I thought how can you not know this is strange,so I googled & a forum mentioned carbon monoxide alarm & it was that,but I very nearly called the boiler man,how embarrassing would that have been! Whenever I have a gardening question,this forums the best place to come,so many answers going back years from lots of experienced gardeners. If we could print all the pages out from 2006 to 2016 it would be like a bible.

[noviceveggrower]

I use either Google, books or the Vine. Sometimes books over complicate the solution to a problem, Google can sometimes be a bit hit and miss but I find the Vine the best.
I'm not on facebook or twitter so like you VC there could be local groups or peeps out there to give advice.

[mothhawk]

My local county council is in the process of closing down more than half the county's libraries, or, like my closest, turning them into "community" libraries, run by volunteers, and basically out of the system, so no rotating of books, and months of waiting if you try to reserve one, so sadly, I now mostly use Goggle as a first stop. It's not the same as having three or four books open and comparing and amalgamating the info, and being able to turn the pages and check the index.

Goggling takes a surprising amount of time.

[veggiechicken]

They're being closed down here too MH I spent so much time in the library when I was a kid but, I haven't been to the library for a couple of years now. I blame goggle.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

MH! I'm a little like you!

Well prefer old school "Hard Copies"

If you could see my "Libary"

[Nannysally99]

I goggle most things, then anything gardening on here, anything on Las Vegas is another forum for me

[Bren In Pots]

I google first of all then for garden related I search the vine via google i just can't get on the the vines own search.

[Aberdeenplotter]

I can modestly say that I don't often need to seek advice on a growing problem but google and the vine would be my first stop if I did or maybe even them after I'd chewed things over with my muckers down t'allotments.

I needed some help identifying a weed this year and no-one at the plots had a scoobie. None of my NVS mates could help. Solved the problem with the help of Jim McColl from Beechgrove Garden.

Can't remember when I last read a gardening book but when I was learning, my bible was the Reader's Digest publication -The Gardening year. Super book the only fault of which is it is really written for Middle England and we are at least a month behind that.

[veggiechicken]

Why didn't you ask us about your weed Ap? Or did you?

[bramble]

It depends really. If its just a random question, I use google.
If its a whole subject that I am interested in then its the library.
I am very lucky in that I am within walking distance of three libraries and have access to several others by car.
Libraries here in Dublin are going from strength, with several of them bring updated and amalgamated with city and county.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Why didn't you ask us about your weed Ap? Or did you?

Cos I couldn't admit to not knowing summat of course .

Seriously though, do you not remember about Marsh Woundwort – Stachys palustris aka Marsh hedge nettle

[veggiechicken]

Here you are http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1375486 if you want to relive your moment of fame