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Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

Roses are at their best trailing down in graceful trusses. In fact, they are like supermodels--the goods just look better displayed on tall, thin, limbs.

Intensive gardening, biodynamic bed-building, and every other gardening technique will seriously insult your imagination if you follow every step blindly. Every gardener should experiment and adapt.

But here experience speaks: never be too far away from man or machine until the sweep of the last [Bobcat] blade, for those who have watched these men at work will know about the amazing interpretations of a plan that can occur.

Some might say a calendar is a simple construct that allows us to divide and conquer. But I prefer to think of each little numbered square as the reminder to bite off only what I can chew and savor.

Working the soil brings me back to my own nature, as I now understand that tending a garden is the same as taking care of myself.

Garden math has always seemed a bit like using MapQuest to find Nirvana.

April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

There is very little in gardening that benefits from being done quickly, and weeding teaches the virtues of pace as well as any activity.

Some might say a calendar is a simple construct that allows us to divide and conquer. But I prefer to think of each little numbered square as the reminder to bite off only what I can chew and savor.

One way to keep crows out of the corn patch is to plant rhubarb instead.

I had to remember that I was only the referee, the human being who weeded and pinched back and watched everything grow. If I was patient and paid close attention, perennials would let me know where they wanted to be.

But a garden is somewhat exalted above ordinary notions of correctness. A garden is more than a matter of the right fish fork, as it were.