Company just left after our turkey feast, so here I find myself, looking for a garden blogger posting on Thanksgiving about something other than recipes. Oh good, Aussie Stuart's got a post.

First of all, how do you find out how many feed subscribers you have? Second, in answer to your question about what I'd like to see more of, I'd like to see more about you and your garden, Stuart. I'm not interested in general gardening tips (I skip those posts) or even garden news so much as a gardener's personal experience in the garden. I'd like to see what you're working on in your garden, what isn't working for you, what plants look like in western Australia.

By the way, I like your new photo.

Cheers Pam. I knew the "We want more of your garden" would come up. Without a camera I haven't been able to share as much as I would have liked. However, I bought one yesterday which I am now waiting for shipment - I will reveal as soon as it arrives.

As for the feed numbers: there are a couple of options but the easiest would be to pop over to www.feedburner.com and burn your feed there. The statistics they offer are fairly useful even for the free stuff.

Edible landscaping - I'll usually look at any article about this, but I don't recall too many that give nice little schemes/plans like there are for flowers/shrubs. Usually all the edible landscaping articles do is provide a list of pretty edibles. Tell me how to set them up, I'm not creative enough in gardening to do it on my own.

I always like the creative DIY drought/watering posts you've done. Maybe a graywater post too, with DIY setup, and what not to use with the edibles.

Vertical vegetable gardening for home owners. Most vertical gardening posts I've looked at recently are just 'what if" designs that look like they'd cost a LOT to build. Whatever. I want to know tricks to do it in my teensy garden.

Organic pest control.

Perennial vegetables.

Vegetables with more than one edible part, or plants other people might not know are edible. I see lots of comments on Asian food blogs when they use sweet potato vines, pumpkin vines, or pea tendrils. I've also read that sunflowers that haven't opened are similar to artichokes; I'm going to try that in a few months, after our mild winter.

Flowers that are pretty, and smell good too. What other things to plant around them that won't conflict with the scent visuals.

Gardening in extreme temperatures (including heat). Where I live, it's hit or miss whether we'll freeze during the winter -- I've had tomato plants survive winters, but die during the summer heat.

Soil stuff (testing, ammending, too sandy, too much clay, ...)

Tea garden with recipes for teas.

Aquaponics with edible fish that also eat mosquitos.

Maybe you're already into some of these things, or would like to get into them, and could give us hints, or step by step instructions.

Speaking of feeds, I've subscribed to this but I receive it by email, and there's no way to click to your site or even to comment or read the existing comments. What's up with that? (I'm still trying to figure feeds out.)
I echo Pam's request for real-gardening stories but seriously, I always leave here thinking what a good job you're doing. So keep it up, and get that camera working.

Sherri - fantastic list of ideas. Consider them all on the TO-DO list over the upcoming weeks and months. Thanks for taking the time to answer with such a useful comment.

Susan - with the email feed you can click on the GTNI title or the logo and that will bring you to my home page. Or, you can click on the post title to bring you directly to that post.

However, if you really want to manage a multitude of blog feeds I would recommend signing up with Bloglines.com. The as you scour the blogosphere you can click the RSS icon displayed on most blogs to subscribe. If you're using Firefox as your browser it will also offer this icon at the end of the URL tag for you to click on.

Cheers for your comments.

Stuart,
I'm with Pam in that I'd love to see more about you and your garden. I like the news and tips posts. But you also have a wonderful personality (from what I know of you) and that sometimes doesn't come through in some of those posts. You provide tons of great, useful information on GTNI, and I personally hope you don't change it too drastically. I don't know what your numbers for page views look like (and you don't need to tell us...please spare my ego...I have no doubt that your numbers totally crush mine) but I'm guessing that you get a hell of a lot of traffic from search engines, and that's a very good reason to keep doing those information-packed posts that you're known for.

So I guess that I want to see more of the same, with a little more "Stuart" than we usually get to see :-)

Hi Stuart:

I don't subscribe by email to your blog, but I get updates via Sage a lightweight but effective RSS feed collector (I think that's the right term). I run it daily and know who updates so I work my way down through the list as I have time.

I like the variety of things you post about, although like others I'd like to see more about your own gardening experiences. Your season is opposite to mine, so I relish the thought of watching you go through spring as I shiver through late fall. And photos, of course. We all love a pretty face--flower face or otherwise!

I quite like the articles.

Other things to include:
Ummmm I'm not sure what you've already covered:

Garden visits (average gardens)
Guest Posts (show of your backyard features: the best and the worst)
Potted, balcony and small garden utilisation
Make your own potting mix: comparisons
Heritage veg road tests
Ornamental veg gardens: do they have to look so...utilitarian?
Most of what Sarah listed.

Just thought I'd pipe up...

1)I'd like to see more of your garden and the things you are working

2)how about photos and accompanying commentary on gardens or landscape design/features that you stumble across in daily life and your thoughts about them e.g. I often stop to take a look at lanscaping in public places, people's gardens, around office buildings and schools to see what they've done and what plants they've used and which work - or don't work.

3) Plant of the Day or some such....plants that are good for difficult places (dark, wet, dry, under eaves, exposed areas, hot areas etc) I know my famil have lots of difficult spots in our gardens where we struggle to grow things or want something a bit different..e.g. an alternative to clivia for dark dry sections under the eaves!

4) special/feature trees....most of us only have room for a few trees in our gardens so much deliberation goes into choosing them... perhaps you could feature a tree that is popular or works well in your local area and what makes it suitable to be one of the chosen ones