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Are questions about animals in garden maintenance or animal husbandry on topic?
No, these are not gardening questions. These are questions about permaculture or Sustainability.
We have an associated site, Sustainable living, where they already have similar questions such as
How ...
kevinskioMod
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For id questions: Why should I tell where in the world a plant is growing?
Knowing localities helps people to know more about the pests, diseases, growing conditions, local plants, temperatures, rainfall, humidity, elevation, hardiness zone, pollution, daylight hours, etc. ...
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Are questions about installing artificial plants on-topic?
I see no reason why artificial turf questions should not be allowed. Its use is increasing in the UK, particularly since the advent of really good look alike artificial grass, and even the RHS allowed ...
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Additional Moderators Needed
I would like to nominate myself as a moderator. I have been active on the site since the early days and am still on the site on a regular basis. Although I no longer work as a commercial landscaper ...
kevinskioMod
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What should you do with answers that you no longer agree with?
Well, I didn't find a rule about this situation, so when it will happen to me I will edit my first answer with a line that more or less says that I consider it obsolete and that I will write another ...
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For id questions: Why should I tell where in the world a plant is growing?
The hardiness zone is an indicator of exactly one thing: the average lowest temperature at a certain point. And that’s it. The conclusions we can draw from that information are minimal and at worst, ...
StephieMod
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Why is this off topic?
I agree with you, you want to improve your garden situation. This would fall in the category "garden or landscape planning and layout" from here. I don't know why it was closed, my guess is that the ...
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Are questions about animals in garden maintenance or animal husbandry on topic?
As a moderator of Sustainability SE I think that the 3 questions mentioned by the OP would fit nicely there. The moderators here can migrate the questions as far as I am concerned.
For future ...
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Edit to correct Latin names not possible
I like to edit and I know that frustration. Sometimes you just want to correct one or two letters and that annoying 6 character message pops up. I think it might be because edits goes through the "...
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Additional Moderators Needed
I’m Stephie and nominate myself as moderator for Gardening SE.
After three and a half years on the site, I feel I have got a good idea of how this specific corner of Stack Exchange works. I want to ...
StephieMod
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Why is this off topic?
I would suggest that you edit the question. Remove, or downplay, the reference to dogs and emphasize the drainage issue.
Editing a question will place it in the re-open review queue. With luck the ...
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Gardening & Landscaping site design and logo — Draft
Thanks for the first draft, I think we’re on a good path already.
Below a few thoughts where I feel a bit of tweaking may make the design better.
My knee-jerk reaction was to the flowers: While ...
StephieMod
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High rep user acting like a noob
I act in the same way regardless of the rep and activity:
If it's an answer I learnt from, I upvote it.
If I don't find it useful, I ignore it.
If it's misleading, I downvote it. Misleading means ...
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Need a new category on close reasons
I am reluctant to use Unclear what you're asking because it's very clear what the OP asks: why is his tree dieing, how to prune a shrub, where to place a flower container, etc.
I feel that having a ...
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What is the Cleanup merit badge?
A rollback is when you edit a post to revert it to an earlier version. If a post has previously been edited (such that it has at least two revisions), when you look at its edit history you'll see a ...
Niall C.Mod
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Why not name "Gardening and Landscaping" as "Horticulture" Instead?
When I took courses it was called Horticulture or Arboriculture or Soil Science. However many of the questions posted here are from users with no formal training or education in Horticulture.
I ...
kevinskioMod
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What to do with the [diesease] tag?
I think it should be deleted and the 3 questions edited with the correct tag.
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How come nobody from Japan?
You could ask the same about China which contains nearly 1/4 of the world's population. Searching for China brings up zero hits.
Yet, if you visit Chinese households they all seem to have ...
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Questions with short titles
You have full edit privileges. From that page:
When should I edit posts?
Any time you feel you can make the post better, and are inclined to do so. Editing is encouraged!
If you think a title ...
Niall C.Mod
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For id questions: Why should I tell where in the world a plant is growing?
Although zone hardiness is very helpful not all users know their zones. Also by giving a general geographic location you can get the most valuable answers: from gardeners in your area.
I cannot ...
kevinskioMod
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Thank you for voting in the election. I and the rest of the moderators will do our best to see that you, G & L users, have a great place to get answers.
Thank you!
kevinskioMod
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What is the Gardening and Landscaping position on posts generated by ChatGPT?
Until further notice we will be adopting the SO policy on ChatGPT posts, which means they are banned for questions, answers and comments.
This is in accordance with the feedback from Community ...
StephieMod
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What would change by moving out of beta?
This is only a partial answer, but as I see it, the changes that come with graduation mostly benefit a site with high activity levels, and dealing with high volumes of material. As we are, many of the ...
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Who can see the name of the users who voted to close a question, before the actual closure takes place?
Only moderators can see that....
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How to exit Beta, after 6 years?
I'm just going to go ahead and quote a response from a SE Community Manager (Ana), after I inquired about a similar question (see the full text in the link above):
This site is not showing the hockey ...
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How should an editor handle adding a tag after an identification has been made?
In my opinion, new users (so easy to search) are more important than history, so I would include tags, so we can check easier related questions.
Already now with edits, some answer and comments seems ...
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Creating a stack exchange site for Bonsai
I get where you're coming from, that this artistic subculture of horticulture is a widely practiced hobby, and specialized enough to have some difference from most other types of plant culture.
I ...
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Gardening & Landscaping site design and logo — Draft
A different thought:
I am not convinced that - if we are going for one symbol only - a flower is the best choice. Flowers are one aspect of gardening and landscaping, but not the central one. A leaf ...
StephieMod
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Are questions about installing artificial plants on-topic?
Artificial turf sounds like it's about landscaping to me (for aesthetics and ground cover/protection); it doesn't seem like as much of a gardening thing to me, though, although gardeners use it (maybe ...
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High rep user acting like a noob
Stormy is very chatty, and there were in past some problems with this behaviour. But this is SE, you should not check reputation level, but the level of single answers.
Some of her answers are the ...
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