I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to Spring because now I have three of the best gardeners imaginable working for me. You will be surprised that the great gardeners are HORSES. They began last year by pruning and manuring our old apple trees that were withering away, producing next to nothing, and you can see the results for yourselves. Yes, suddenly we had enormous apples everywhere, but the miracle didn't stop there: the maggots also had disappeared and the leaves themselves remained green, despite the hot sun, and remained on the trees into the depths of winter.
And you know what: there were so many apples that a lot fell to the ground before we could eat them, but that was no problem either. Our gardeners cleared them up at no extra charge. In fact, they charged nothing at all: they work for the sheer joy of it!