Here’s how I raised a wonderful, healthy, fresh vegetable garden working on it only 10 minutes a day. I’d spend 10 minutes a day telling Sue what to do and then I’d go play golf. It couldn’t have been easier. Some guys say they haven’t got the time to spend 10 minutes telling their wives how to garden, but I say, “Make the time,” and sure enough, fresh fruit and vegetables will be yours all summer long.

But then I learned my system had a flaw. Sue doesn’t listen to me and does her gardening without my help.

“In spite of it,” she said when I told her, that, like everyone else in these hard times, I will be growing my own garden this year. Why should I give my hard-earned money to a grocery store when I can give it to Burpee for seeds, the Home Depot for fencing, Lowe’s for fertilizer, the garden supply store for hoes, rakes, trowels, dandelion pullers, tomato stakes, Japanese beetle traps, hoses and 1,000 other tools of the trade. Suddenly, grocery store produce was starting to look like a bargain. And I was already off schedule. The shopping that day took two hours, not 10 minutes.