Adjust your expectations

- It never goes as planned
    - Zucchini
    - Cherokee purple tomato. 
- There will be surprises
- Common conventions are not always best
    - Poppies

Plan for the next season

- Next day, week, month year

What you give your attention to grows

Make room for failure

- Lavender

The ‘Build it and they will come’ model does not always work

- Monarchs
- Swallowtails
- Mason Bees
- Brassica caterpillars

Find joy in the small wins

- Dahlias

Be observant of adjacent interests

- Cooking

True generosity does not come with strings attached

- Sweet potatoes and pumpkins

Growth brings invaders

- Mole, groundhog, squirrels, cats, bugs bugs bugs, birds and the sunflowers

What seems obvious to you will not be to others

- Lawnmowers
- Britti peppers

Abundance

Don’t give up too early

Luffah

Rest

- How to rest each: 
    day, week, month, year, decade

How to discover new things

Winners
- Ground cherries
- Seminole pumpkin
Losers
- Tigger melon

Consistency wins

- A little each day might be all it takes

The good stuff is during the bookends of the day

- Morning and evening: best time to plant seeds