I have been receiving some comments and constructive criticisms about my posts.
While I appreciate that they have been made with good will and intentions, to my knowledge, this is the first time these issues have been brought up in all the years I have been posting here. (Well, actually I have heard about the Collage not being understandable before, but I do kind of think of them as pictographical snapshots -- zoom in and examine more closely if interested, but just glance over the thumbnails if not.... I HAVE started using the Markup feature of iOS Photo app to directly label stuff in the collage).
However, if there is room for improvements to be made that majority of the members who are interested in reading my threads agree on, then I would certainly think about how they might be accomplished, and will make the suggested changes if my home tech situation allows it -- currently file storage space is at a premium....
So if you have been holding back about issues that have been on your mind, PLEASE let me know. I would also appreciate positive feedback as well, if you have them. ...Gee what if everyone said it's been a NIGHTMARE!
OK, I shall brace myself. But my philosophy is that there is ALWAYS room to evolve for improvement so fire away!
I'm going to split the comments that have already been made -- and subsequent discussions about the issues that were raised -- from existing threads and merge them to here.
In case you are not up to posting comments but would like to contribute, I will first start with a poll about issues that have been raised, and hopefully will create sufficient categories to vote in.
Subject: STALK BORER in my Tomato and Potato
Oh, I didn't know that. On my iPad, I can tap to enlarge, then two-finger zoom....KitchenGardener wrote:I'm so sorry that happened. Just an fyi: even after enlarging, I find your photo collages frustrating because most of the time I cannot see what you are showing us - this case is a good example. Perhaps you might want to do a few less photos collages? I'd be more inclined to follow your threads if you did...
--maybe more captions or clearer descriptions to point out what I'm showing? In this case, The first photo on the left shows a pile of sawdust frass/pellets at the base of the stem, 2nd photo shows the wire, bottom photo the nursery pot secured and filled with potting mix to mound around the stem....
I want to show so many photos that if I didn't collage them, each post would take up the entire page, I thought that would be even more daunting....
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Subject: STALK BORER in my Tomato and Potato
Subject: STALK BORER in my Tomato and PotatoKitchenGardener wrote:Thank you! Yes, I enlarge them, and then zoom even more, but sometimes its just hard to follow, is all.
I think its disgusting that those creatures can get away with that. One ill placed stupid big caterpillar or whatever and he destroys so much of your hard work. Those and the SVBs seem totally unfair to me!
ID jit wrote:So you speared the evil worm with a wire and then basically buried the plant up to where there was solid stalk? The idea being that the buried stem will root?
(Have the same problem with your collages. They are pretty, but kind of confusing. Am an idjit and do better with one thing at a time. A vertical stack of images would be much easier to follow. If I do the figer stretch thing on the images, when I close the image I have H U G E text when I get back to the page.)