10,000+ will be easy for you by year's end. What percent of those are actual people who care about gardening is up in the air, as steemit is a bit... different, to say the least, in who people follow and why. Best of luck to you here, there does seem to be more than a few already on the site who take a heavy interest in farming and learning about ways to be, how should I put it, independent of the grid.