Do you have any gardening companies that you'd like to recommend to others? We all have our favorite companies that we buy from time and again, and I'm pleased to announce a new feature that will let you reward your favorite companies by recommending them to others!

Introducing Gardening Recommendations, currently in beta form only. You can access it here:

http://garden.org/reviews/

Sometime this coming week I will find a way to make room for it in the tab bar up top and then we'll be officially launched. But in the meantime, feel free to check it out and see what you think.

A few of the features:

1) Anybody can add a company to be recommended. Once the company is added you can post your review.

2) Your review can be a simple one or two sentence review, or it can be a full length post.

3) You can include photos in your review! This way you can show what the order looked like when you got it.

4) People can post replies to your review (just like the way people can post replies to your photos in the database, for example).

Check it out, and let me know what you think.

I meant to also mention: this feature is only a very small beginning. Right now it only supports the recommending of companies, but I have created this in such a way that I can easily extend it to support recommending other things, like books and even other fellow trading partners! Adding those other features will be a phase 2 project.

Great!

Do you think you could add a feature that would be like the green thumb guy or something simple for those who have used the product or company but don't do well with words (long recommendations)


Cinda

I look forward to this new feature.

I love it Dave.
Can you make it so we can edit our comments?

gardengus said:Do you think you could add a feature that would be like the green thumb guy or something simple for those who have used the product or company but don't do well with words (long recommendations

They don't have to be long, at all. Check out my review of DripWorks:

http://garden.org/reviews/view...

Feel free to recommend a company by simply saying "I recommend them" or anything simple like that.

valleylynn said:Can you make it so we can edit our comments?

This is ready! Just go to your review and scroll to the bottom and click on "Edit your review".

That was quick. Thank you Dave.

I hope it is okay that I put a link in some of the comments, to threads pertaining to the nursery?
Can you review them Dave and let me know if that works okay for what you are doing?

SMG Nursery is one of them.
Young's Garden Center is another.

How do we edit the information we placed in the system for a nursery?

Here you go Sis.

dave said:This is ready! Just go to your review and scroll to the bottom and click on "Edit your review".

It is the site record I want to change

I put a Canadian one in there. They do ship to the USA...will it be searchable, eventually, by Country?

I see now what you are talking about Sis.
I don't see an option to change that information?

valleylynn said:I hope it is okay that I put a link in some of the comments, to threads pertaining to the nursery?

Yes, perfectly okay.

CDsSister said:How do we edit the information we placed in the system for a nursery?

ahh, sorry. That functionality is not yet in. Early this week I'll make sure to get that in!

threegardeners said:will it be searchable, eventually, by Country?

Yes, of course! And fully international in scope.

Dave does not do anything half way. All I can say is WOW!!!

A wonderful new feature Dave - thank you so much