Scroll down this page about 3/4 of the way to the bottom and you'll see a search box. Type in your terms and hit enter.

Each forum has its own search engine, similarly located.

Thx a bunch, Trudi -

Am new to the forum and somehow missed it.

- Will

What am I missing, I still can't locate the search bar for the individual forums?

your 2 posts at TomatoesHi prairiemoon2,

The reply trudi gave was for the old GW site. Now, if you want to search for your posts say here at Tomatoes, just put your member name in the search box at the top. Pause and you should get a dropdown menu, and there you can choose "in Growing Tomatoes".

My guess is that new posts aren't found via search right away.

You might try later.

Sue

Link to your 2 older posts at Tomatoes

well, they could make it pink, like a visitor's locker room.

Something neutral would be nice, like a pale gold or light yellow. Or…neutral shades that are not white.

I want to search topics within a specific forum. Why would I only be interested in my own posts?

At the top, there is a box that says 'search in gardenweb'. If you are in the tomatoes forum when you do a search (ex: hillbilly), something will pop up that says "hillbilly in growing tomatoes" and "hillbilly in advice". Click the first if you want to search that forum only and the second to search the whole site.

Good finding, asm. Thanks.

On the other hand, what the hech let it search the whole site. Just type in a specific search Q

Thanks Sue and asm. Ohiofem, you've made some interesting comments over time. I think Sue meant you could search for anything, including a user, because this formum doesn't yet have a "see all posts by user" function. It happened to me that I posted once some time after I started a certain plant, later lost the start date, unimportant at the moment, but then the plant became important and I was able to search and find the date here and confirm I had gotten a fresh tomato to eat from seed in under 100 days ;-)

Seysonn, I agree but sometimes searching the whole site brings up stuff that is unrelated. I've never liked the search function and use Google's instead for here. Maybe it can be improved though which would be nice to be able to include/exclude terms for a more specific search.

Example: Hillbilly pH

Before you got everything with either, so tons of soil and hydroponics stuff showed up, but I only wanted to see if anyone said anything about the pH of the Hillbilly tomato pulp.

PC

Thanks to all for the tips. I'd like to be able to search all garden forums -- like tomatoes, container gardening and vegetables, for example -- excluding the home improvement forums, but that doesn't seem to be an option. Actually, I had the same search problem on the old GW site that PC mentioned. You couldn't search for "tomato cages," for example, because it would bring up any post with either word in it. Also, older posts couldn't be found by searching GW. The best way to search then, and I hope now, was to use Google. I could find something specific by entering site:gardenweb.com and then a specific phrase in quotes on Google.

marinara