As I’ve said before, Wargarden aka Plainleaf aka Squarefoot and other names has been well known for causing trouble on UK based cooking and gardening forums for well over ten years. They are obsessed with telling UK cooks and gardeners that they don’t know what they’re doing.
Pinching out sideshoots on indeterminate tomato plants and growing sweetcorn are two themes that they have repeated on gardening forums ad infinitum; and telling English cooks that we can’t cook Yorkshire puddings has cropped up again and again on cookery forums, despite the fact that they appear never to have set foot in the UK.
They seem to garner their information from a stash of early 20C publications with which they appear obsessed.
Most of the smaller privately owned cookery boards have locked him out now, but larger boards have to abide carefully by legal requirements and Wargarden has become adept at walking the tightrope of being provocative and causing trouble while not actually breaking any rules.
I now tryhardnot to respond to their posts unless they’re actually giving advice I believe to be misleading.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's some detective work you've done there! I'd also noticed that Wargarden's grammar and spelling are rather distinct, but just thought they were a bit slapdash.
I think Dove's approach to this problem is sensible .... it would be a shame if people were misled by poor advice.
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Why do grape-growers, California, Burgundy, Tuscany, Kent - you name it ... prune their vines?
Since I live in Kent, I just want to say that a number of the fields containing vines, used to grow more useful crops. They were replaced by people investing in vineyards, and it is such a shame to walk through the fields now, where there is a distinct lack of insect life, and thus of the bird life also.
People should be able to question someone when they make unfounded accusations, or are downright rude, especially when they then refuse to address, or answer, those questions, which is what's happened here. I rarely post on it's threads, but it annoys me that this troll/WUM/sh*t stirrer thinks it's acceptable to be regularly rude to others without being challenged. It can't be flagged, because it isn't spam, unless you support those who thinks that's also an acceptable method of getting rid of folk whose opinions you don't like - which has happened a few times recently. It makes no difference if people don't post - he just starts another thread, or posts on his own ones, so that tactic simply doesn't work.
Often, posters just change the subject and go off at at tangent anyway, which is quite amusing. That's my last comment on this thread though. I've said what I think.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I refuse to argue. Frustrating for the perpetrator.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
That's some detective work you've done there!
I'd also noticed that Wargarden's grammar and spelling are rather distinct, but just thought they were a bit slapdash.
I think Dove's approach to this problem is sensible .... it would be a shame if people were misled by poor advice.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
I rarely post on it's threads, but it annoys me that this troll/WUM/sh*t stirrer thinks it's acceptable to be regularly rude to others without being challenged. It can't be flagged, because it isn't spam, unless you support those who thinks that's also an acceptable method of getting rid of folk whose opinions you don't like - which has happened a few times recently.
It makes no difference if people don't post - he just starts another thread, or posts on his own ones, so that tactic simply doesn't work.
Often, posters just change the subject and go off at at tangent anyway, which is quite amusing. That's my last comment on this thread though. I've said what I think.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
uk gardeners on this message board are!