Where do you look for answers?

[Aberdeenplotter]

Thank you missus, that was the discovery of the answer. I'm sure I did ask at one point and mentioned the square mint like stem and the musky smell rather than the lovely minty aroma.

[JanieB]

Google doesn't always answer the question. It used to be possible to put the question in parenthises so that was all that was answered. Nowadays every word is picked up and the most important one in your question can be ignored for several pages which is when we all give up. I still rely on my books for the answer to the question.

I have a bookcase dedicated (to my son's disgust, but he has given in on this) to my dining room wall. The left hand shelves are all fiction, the right hand ones are reference.

[jackarmy]

The more info google gets the more it can help you out.

google every time, ( appart from this forum for this subject ) also though, youtube has a tremendous ammount of info and there is so much one can learn to do and with a video to boot, awesome

[Tripmeup]

Rary must not have seen this thread

Because I would say you should ask someone who is never wrong..guess who that might be

Google for me for general stuff..here for gardening stuff and people I respect and trust for other "touchy feely"stuff

[skeggijon]

Like VC, I started gardening long before the days of the interweb and apart from lots of advice from my parents who were both keen gardeners, I used to love Percy Thrower, then Geoffrey Smith sparked my interest in fruit and veg, along with Geoff Hamilton. I have pretty much every book written by both of them.
Nowadays its the vine for gardening matters and google for most other things

[Lumpy]

I am also a G Gal....but there are certain questions that are very difficult to phrase without getting some VERY strange sites pop up.

I once tried asking Goggle what happens if you don't milk a cow?

It was a very innocent question as I still don't know but some of the sites it provided just showed me what a sheltered life I had led.

[Guest]

I tend to ask people I trust, I hate the idea of looking like a numpty (yes I know I have failed on that one), they can also explain if I don't get it and google answers are not necessarily reliable. Depending on the question I do try and not worry and just phone specialists i.e doctors if it is illness related, vets if it is a pet question etc. it is only a phone call and they are the specialists not me.

I tend to use google more for ideas and image based stuff rather than answering specific questions.