howd you get here?

A friend found this site on DIGG and told me about it.

-- GardenMentor, Seattle, WA (zone 8/9), www.gardenmentors.com & www.gardenhelp.org

did a search on for chicken coops and ended up here! Best thing ever. So many ideas….creative people.Wow!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

My husband belongs to the Lumberjocks website that GT was spun off of. The gentleman, Martin, who created Lumberjocks also created this site as well …

Anyway, my husband told me about this site as soon as it was up and running … and I joined.

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

I saw this site mentioned on another garden site.

-- Derbyshire------- English Countryside

I came over from LumberJocks.com

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Did you know that MsDebbie came up with the name GardenTenders ? She was at the birth of this site. Really talented GardenTender :)

-- Michal, http://gardentenders.com

Oh wow, I did not know that. How cool is that!!! Great name Deb … it fits the site and all of us.

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

let me tell you – we put a lot of time into coming up with the name…you think you find a good one and it is taken already… or you find a great name and then you look at it and it has a double meaning that isn’t so great.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

How long did it take you to come up/decide on the name “GT”?

Okay, this is very interesting … a little bit of GT history.

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

I’m a Lumberjock, and I noticed the banner ad at the LJ site…

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit

I was directed here by Bro Damocles. And I am glad that he did. I have seen a lot thing sthat one day I would like to do and try.

-- Living on the level... Central Ontario...1.25 hrs from TO.......Zone 5a

My husband is member at LumberJocks and we followed here!

-- Jen, Zone 8 SC, http://www.woodlandchic.com

how long? Gosh, can’t really remember… we’ve been working on so many things. There were a lot of names tossed around. Maybe we talked about it for a month… a burst of ideas and then quiet .. then a burst of ideas.. then quiet.. and then “GardenTenders” and that was it!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

I was watching Franky Flowers on CP24 yesterday and he mentioned it on his show.So a big thanks to Frank,because here I am,from Ontario,and I love to talk gardening.Snow storm today,so I will just spend the day catching up on the forums.
Hello to everyone.

-- Southwestern Ontario Canada Zone5b

I snuck in behind Debbie .lol
I am also from Lumberjocks

-- John in Cranbrook , http://www.extremebirdhouse.com http://community.webshots.com/user/cranbrook2

I, too, was watching Franky Flowers yesterday and that’s how I came here :) Indeed, we’re snowed in today and in central Europe there is early spring already ! Cheers to all !

-- tropicals lover - Katherine, Ontario, Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

oh how wonderful!!

I sent an email yesterday. I’m so excited. Thanks to Frank. :)

I wish I hadn’t been working yesterday so I could have seen it—or even better taped it so Buli and Martin could have seen it.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

GREAT PR for the site … fantastic!!!

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

o.k….so i’ve been dinking around on lumberjocks…seeing ads for gardentenders….having blown off a number of other homesteading sites i decided to try this out.

to answer the original question i came here from lumberjocks.

i’ve blown off other sites (mainly homesteading sites) because there’s always some [insert favorite insulting description here] that seems to tell me i’m an idiot and i don’t know what i’m talking about etc. etc.

[my late uncle never swore….but he had a friend that did….so when he got mad, he’d just say “maybe i should just go down to the lodge and have my friend say a few choice words for me.”]

so i’m here to try again….although my interest goes far beyond just gardening (homesteading including everything it takes to get along in this world without outside interference or dependency) at least it’s a start. my main interest here would be organic gardening for the market and will hopefully, being at the apparent front end of this thing, will see some interesting stuff evolve.

i guess i should save all the other stuff, warnings, personal embelishments for my new profile.

-- arborial reconfiguration specialist......Zone out....(USA 5)

well that’s quite an introduction.
I applaud your “determined-ness”... I hope you find what you are looking for, here at GT.

And I can promise that I, for one, won’t be doing any “you don’t know what you’re talking about” talk because, although I grew up on a farm and have lived in the rural Ontario my entire life, I feel like a newbie to all this gardening stuff.

Bring it on.. and share your wisdom!!!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

I hope so too. Maybe I can inject alittle homesteading expansion kinda thing into the “sweating” forum.

[I’m still trying to figure out why there are so many canucks on here (and lumberjocks.) Other forums I’ve been on didn’t have many. Been to Lake of the Woods once. wanted to visit everywhere else since.]

-- arborial reconfiguration specialist......Zone out....(USA 5)

i have no idea (re: so many Canucks).
but it’s nice to see!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Oh I know,I know, it’s because we are all up to our “Canucks” in snow right now.Sorry,couldn’t resist.HaHaHa.

-- Southwestern Ontario Canada Zone5b

I’m a Lumberjock from the quiet early days, where you could easily keep track of all the projects and comments – didn’t have blogs, videos or so many of the features we’ve been enjoying… I too am interested in homesteading, organics, being a locavore and such – and love the environment, the neighborliness of both sites here.

I know it sounds better than GardenJocks, but I can’t help but think GardenTenders is a nice vegetarian chicken analog.

-- southern NH. - smack dab in the middle of 5a and 5b - with lots of shade and full sun, in all the wrong places.

Countrygal… that is funny..I’m going to use that line.

Scott.. there is that wee little sound to it, I have to admit…. I hope that the vision of tending to gardens wins out over your chicken fingers vision

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Well I was just searching for some info on some gardening subject, don’t remember what it was and this was one choice so I checked out the info. Then I noticed Pharmer Phil’s name with a post and that peaked my interest more and here I am. Tho I am trying not to join too many sites cause sometimes I have trouble keeping up. I will be quite a while just covering everything here. Certain sites appeal to me more like Old Pharmer Phil’s nd this one is good too but more for the projects and pics of same. So far it is very interesting here. I hafta check out Lumberjock just to satisfy my curiousity.*

-- gardening in extreme northern CA. zone 7 in the beautiful Siskiyou mountains

it’s a secret and if I tell you how I got here?

then it wont be a secret anymore <g>

-- Central northish Ontario

I don’t know exactly how I got here.Just started out one morning googling garden info. and whamo here I was.So glad I found this site.Love it.Love reading everyones input and love the bantering back and forth.It gives me a good feeling to read everyones input while I am having my morning coffee.Sometimes my coffee lasts me an hour (lol)

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

Well Bon, we are just glad that you “got here” ... sometimes we can be a “silly” bunch; but that is half the fun of being on this site!!!! At least I think so … :-)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

ditto :)

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Agreed!:-)

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

Was looking for info on shade tolerant vines and this site popped up on the Google list.
I came, I saw, I was conquered!

-- the day you quit learning is the day you quit living.

Well Dini, we are sure glad you … “came, saw and conquered” ... cuz you are a wonderful addition to our group of gardeners!!! :-)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

Like Springwood, I saw this site mentioned on another garden site. I believe it was a comment by Bullseye that drew me here.

-- jroot

My wife made me go.

Bob

-- I want to believe in a lot of things but, in the meantime I have to deal with the truth

Bob,
Smart wife you got!!! :-)

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

I found this site thru a friend on here.

-- Toronto, Ontario