Pragmatic Programmers on Software Gardening

This analogy is so unusual in Software Development. Most developers would probably have laughed at the idea but since it's written here in Black & White (well Blue on Grey) by two very esteemed authors perhaps more developers would take up gardening.
It would be like working at your hobby and not seem like work at all.

Kill two birds with one stone and have Software Gardening Design Patterns. The authors borrow from Charles Alexander's Design Patterns but find SD is not like buildings. I guess these guys like to poke and potter around code a lot.

Dahlias - follow the recommended spacings in planting bulbs otherwise the blooms get smothered in the bushy growth.
Geraniums - don't overwater or feed these Mediterranean plants
Begonias - ideally pinch off the females as the male flowers make bigger longer-lasting blooms and don't run to seed.
Daisies - they like to be dead headed every so often to produce more flowers
as do petunias who also like to be overfed.

This much I know from 6 months experience.