How do I go about removing a thread I started...I already figured my answer out...Thank you !!

Moe, only administrators can remove threads. If there is a moderator for the forum you posted your thread to, perhaps they will be able to remove it. You can always go back to the thread and post a comment that you figured out the answer.

Thank you !! I tried removing it and now it is an empty post with my question at the top...I have since sent a T-mail to one of the moderators...

Sometimes it's better to just leave a thread intact. Someone else with the same question may come along and find it useful.

You are absolutely right, @Woofie. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen a post on a thread that was started over a year ago and has not had a post for many months. I don't know how anyone stumbles on old threads, but they sure do.

drdawg said:You are absolutely right, @Woofie. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen a post on a thread that was started over a year ago and has not had a post for many months. I don't know how anyone stumbles on old threads, but they sure do.

I have come across lots of old, useful threads when using the search function.

Ha! Look at that! I just tagged myself when quoting Ken. How silly.

Thanks folks !!! Darn newbies !!!

Way back when I was a newbie I also wanted to remove a thread that I had started. Mostly I was getting tired of receiving the notifications. The information in your thread...well, if you hadn't edited it out...could be useful to future newbies. Maybe you can "unwatch" the thread?

Edited to add:
Not too long ago I started a thread to ask a specific question about Bumblebee behavior. After I was satisfied with the answer folks kept using the thread to talk about other things - lots of other things. I wanted to close that thread and ...well...it got pretty ugly for a while. The thread started here:
http://garden.org/thread/view_...

Hopefully everyone will be nicer to you than they were to me.

I fixed it the best I could !!

Iv'e seen a thread where a person deleted all of their messages. That just made me wonder...why Greene why! : I do agree that most post in time will come around again and be of help to someone else. Threads that go on like that one end up in what is called the Sandbox forum. You can buy a micro badge for that. Now I'm going to look and see who has one. edited for spelling

HamiltonSquare said:Threads that go on like that one end up in what is called the Sandbox forum. You can buy a micro badge for that. Now I'm going to look and see who has one. edited for spelling

I have that badge! My motto has always been "Playing in the dirt is my therapy and I'm in threapy a lot!" I guess since I live in Florida, I could change it to read "sand" instead of dirt.

Here we would have to substitute "clay" for dirt.

My youngest sister lived in North Georgia for many years and I remember when visiting her one time, she asked me to help her plant something or other in her yard; geesh ... I was even young then (if you consider early 30's young) and I couldn't dig through that hard red Ga. clay! I tried using a shovel and then a post hole digger ... no luck! My sister laughed at me ... she had no trouble at all! If I lived someplace with soil like that, I'd have to hire a lot of help with the digging. We sometimes complain about our poor, sandy soil here but it's easy to dig and easily amendable.

Yep, all of my "major" digging, anything more than a wheelbarrow load, is hired out. It just kills me to pay big bucks to have someone do things like that, but I have no choice. Age is undoing me at a rapid pace.

An elderly neighbor of ours, many years ago, was fond of saying, "Old age will break ya, kiddo." When I asked him what he meant, he just smiled and handed me a dollar. "you'll see how fast that goes".... Boy was he right.

drdawg said:Yep, all of my "major" digging, anything more than a wheelbarrow load, is hired out. It just kills me to pay big bucks to have someone do things like that, but I have no choice. Age is undoing me at a rapid pace.

LOL, I know what you mean. My husband hates to hire someone to do something that he says he can do himself and he is a real handyman but we both are realizing our ages after the move three weeks ago! He keeps telling me "Getting old isn't for sissies."

Moonhowl said:An elderly neighbor of ours, many years ago, was fond of saying, "Old age will break ya, kiddo." When I asked him what he meant, he just smiled and handed me a dollar. "you'll see how fast that goes".... Boy was he right.

So true!

If you dig a hole in my yard it just fills back up with sand...I'm exactly 1 mile from the Gulf Coast...

Dig a hole in my yard and fill it with water. Tomorrow, the water is still there. I cold easily build a swimming pool, using just our clay as the liner.