r/gardening

Updated Aug 28

A place for the best guides, pictures, and discussions of all things related to plants and their care.

Members

8,969,172

9M

Online now

not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

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Comments per post

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Growth · 7d

+0.0%

+3K members · ≈4d

Growth · 30d

not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

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Last post

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Distinct posters

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Tracking since Aug 24 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

Tracking since Aug 24 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/gardening — frequently asked

How many members does r/gardening have?

r/gardening has 8,969,172 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 28. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/gardening growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/gardening yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 24; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/gardening?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/gardening yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

Can I promote my product in r/gardening?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/gardening yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/gardening for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/gardening into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/gardening's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/gardening's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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