Hi barryla61,

Ahhhh...A question I can answer.

If you use the search box in the green banner at the top of any page, you will get search results for the whole Garden Web site. To narrow your search to results from just the Tomato Forum, you need to use the search box found just below the list of threads on page one.

The results at the link below has a few threads that will hopefully help you some.

Here is a link that might be useful: results from search here at Tomato Forum Preparing the soil

And don't include the word 'tomato' or 'tomatoes' when searching the tomato forum or 'pepper' or 'peppers' when searching the peppers forum or you get everything.

The search here isn't like Google. You want a very specific search here not general net-wide searching. So you want to use specific terms like "soil preparation" or "add to soil" or "add to garden" and leave out all the a, and, the, conjunctions.

But you can't rule out posts that come up on your search just by the title since people notoriously choose some really strange titles for their posts. For example, the post My Stupidest Gardening Mistake happens to contain lots of soil preparation info. :)

Dave

And if all else fails please feel free to post your question anyway. Ok?

Dave

I find it more helpful to use Google to search GardenWeb. You can limit a Google search to a specific Web site like this:

yoursearchhere site:gardenweb.com

Thanks everyone, this will indeed help