Dchall_San_Antonio wrote:
I think the forum is 10x more educational than the magazine. And as for the rest of the website, I've tried to look at it but I get lost in the navigation. Maybe it's me but I can never find what I'm looking for.
Since I'm still pretty green--
HA!--at this organic stuff--and gardening in general--I have found some of the DIRT issues useful. I never saw any of the print ones, so don't have anything to compare against. I'll say this: I do like how one can print out
just the article one is interested in. I don't have to waste time and materials printing out the entire thing just to get at one or two articles. So in terms of an on-line presentation, I think it's one of the best, most convenient I've ever come across.
Though, as one that works on a computer all day, I have to admit that I don't particularly enjoy reading books or magazines on-line. It just gets a bit draining on the eyes.
So what I generally do is skim through it really quickly and then just print out an article or two that I want to read. The other pages--and their ads I might add--loose out. Oh well.
Anyway, I have to agree with Dchall that the forum is by far the most useful resource to me on an on-going basis.
Dchall_San_Antonio wrote:
I'm a lot more active on another Internet forum than I am on this one simply because the other one is not 100% organic. In fact there's probably only 5 of us on their lawns forum that are organic. When you look at it, this organic garden program is so simple, how many times do you need to say it? How many different ways are there to say the same simple thing? On the other Internet sites there are people who have never been exposed to Howard or anyone (ever in their life) who even suggested that you can have great garden without using chemical fertilizer.
Yeah, and I think I know what site you're referring to. It's at that site I first learned about cornmeal and the luck you had with it from blackspot on roses (I think that was you) to the lawn.
Though, one downside to that site is the fact that they do not maintain old posts. I think this is a great loss because you can't go back and search through the old post to dig up some of the wisdom shared in past discussions. On numerous occasions I have found that to be very useful here.
Dchall_San_Antonio wrote:
But after that they are on the program and don't need much help.
Maybe some day I'll get to that point, but I'm still amazed at how much there is to learn, understand, and experiment. I'm doubtful that learning will end any time soon. At least I hope not. As an Example, that article in the news section of the July DIRT on bio-fungicides was interesting.