Getting to know you: Expectations vs. reality in the garden -- "Plant me now!" -- "Plant me next!" -- The space-time continuum, garden style -- Evolution of a gardener -- Your gardening notebook, the most useful garden tool of all -- Growing by instinct -- What's your style? -- Getting to know your garden: Not so fast! -- Help! -- Easy ways to a "perfect" garden -- The lay of the land, exercise 1 -- Just imagine, exercise 2 -- Money matters, exercise 3 -- Lawn vs. garden, and the winner is ... -- Think twice about vegetables -- The bubble plan, exercise 4 -- The plan comes together, exercise 5 -- Building the landscape -- Help! The sequel, do you need professional help? -- Time to get growing: Planning the plants -- The honest bribe -- Gardener beware -- Your planting plan, exercise 6 -- Gnomes we've known and loved, furnishing and ornamenting the garden -- Let's go shopping -- Planting your purchases -- Keep growing in your spare time: Growing the plants -- Keeping the plants in check -- Weed this and reap -- Summing up the season -- The good gardener vs. the bad seed -- Pop quiz, a peek into your garden shed -- Tools you can, and can't, count on, an opinionated gardener's list -- Oh, deer! And other critters -- Garden odds and ends: Latin in the landscape, putting in a good word for a dead language -- The gardener's seasons -- Now with all your newfound spare time ...
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