She’s the reason I didn’t leave some time ago.
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I joined Feb 17, 2015 and was on Gardenweb for ~5 years before that, joining within months of getting some land and starting planting.
I didn’t see the expand either. I just opened the link in an incognito window and it showed the date. Actually, the first thing I did was find the anniversary badge and find the first time I got it, then subtract a year. But, strangely, I saw some of the later anniversary were awarded on different days (some in May vs Feb), so I figured it wasn’t a reliable method.
Over Fifty Group was one of the suggested values for the acronym. That might apply to a decent percent of the original members. I’m not quite there yet, but very soon.
I thought the same. It’s gradually gotten better, but only a portion of it is me doing things better. Equally important:
1.) Location diversification- just doing the same things in more places (rental properties) sometimes leads to success
2.) Just time- trees getting more mature sometimes get productive. Or in the case of Mulberries, sometimes get big enough for me to snag some fruit before it gets eaten by birds & squirrels (they were productive at early ages, just not enough for me to get any…).
3.) Jujubes- as long as they get enough sun & water and you plant a decent variety, they produce without disease, insect issues and mostly without animal predation. Sort of an “easy mode” for tree fruit.
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I started June 14 2015. I was on gardenweb for a few years before that. I guess I’m an OG.
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What a ride!
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I joined March 2, 2015 and was a member of GW before.
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Well, looks like just about all the OG’s are still here, which after ten years is saying something. Of course I’m sure I’m missing some, but it seems like most stayed around.
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Close enough to me, you’ve made it ten years on here…
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Today just happens to be my 7-year anniversary of joining. Very happy to have been able to learn from the collective wisdom here, ask questions, and help others as I can…
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Squirrel cages are mandatory to keep much of our fruit - similar 30 trees here
This OG is still around … ten years my how time flies!
The original set-up of this site I made in just a couple hours and it was running on an old computer I set up in my basement. I wasn’t really expecting it to take off, but thought it was worth a try since Houzz was getting more and more annoying. Fortunately it took them awhile to start censoring mentions of this forum over there, long enough that many of the regulars there migrated over here.
What has made this site work so well is all the great regular contributors, as well as the great group of mods that we have. The software is also one of the better forum platforms, it was relatively new ten years ago but is now a major player.
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Has this forum been on the same software platform since the beginning?
Well I found out that crows were after my apples in the front yard. We have a decent sized Suncrisp and it had at least two dozen fruit on it after I put an anti-deer fence around it. Came home a couple days ago and saw that most of those were on the ground under the tree, about half of them gashed by bird pecks. I gathered up the rest to see if they will ripen in the house. Several others were badly pecked at on the tree, so I pitched those.
Last evening I happened to look out the door and saw a couple more crows by the tree, one with a piece of apple in his stupid beak!
Some were also in my tomato patch, and we’ve seen several of those pecked on. Crows were never a problem until this year. Don’t know why they started showing up but just another pest we have to deal with.
Yes same platform. I never even changed the logo that I whipped up on the first day. I have been meaning to change it but have not done anything yet.
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I have the same on/off with crows. Pears are their favorites but they will sometimes eat other things. My defense has been to buy plastic fake crows on Amazon and hang them from the trees… it has mostly eliminated the problem.
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Logo? We have a logo? 
Seriously, Scott. It ain’t broke -why fix it? Everything is just fine the way things are.
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Was curious as to how much space/memory this site has reached after being on the air for over ten years, with so many threads/posts/videos/pictures on it. Are we talking like in the Terabytes by now? I’m guessing it’s no longer on your home computer but in the “cloud”? I think had said you’d moved to an Amazon server?
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I’ve been here since the garden web days.
I’m not here very much these days. Sorry just no time anymore. Getting old too. Hard to keep up with the garden. I plan to downsize. But will always grow.
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I think it’s around 500gig at this point, mostly for the images. The images are all on AWS and the server itself is on Akamai.
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Amen, Amen, Amen!!!
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Bravo, Scott!!! And thank you for not only starting this list but keeping it up and running.
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