Part One: Pruning -- Gardening is a virus -- The science of pruning -- Tools of the trade -- Looking for dead wood -- Timing -- Pruning cane-growers -- Pruning mounds -- Pruning tree-likes -- Pruning hedges -- Shear madness -- Fruit trees -- How to prune a tree limb -- Part Two: Renovating The Overgrown Yard -- Begin to bring order out of chaos -- Sorting out -- Adding the lower story -- Speaking and understanding gardenese -- Getting rid of unwanted plants -- Radical renovation -- My tree's too big -- Part Three: Designing and Installing a New Landscape -- What makes a yard look good or bad -- Map and hardscape -- How to choose and arrange your plants -- More unheeded advice -- Installation How-tos and tricks -- Part Four: Maintaining.
Your Yard -- Taking care of your yard -- Weeds: hand-to-hand combat -- Herbicides -- Fertilizers and organics -- Watering -- Pests and diseases -- A woman: a plan: an organization: plant amnesty!
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