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if you decide to have a garden it's a really good idea to spend some

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time figuring out where all your flowers or vegetables will go sure you could try [a blindfolded man holding flowers]

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blindfolding yourself and just tossing flowers all over the place but that's

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not a great idea partly because it's bad gardening and partly because you might

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end up hitting someone in the face with a flower flowers don't grow very well [a rose hitting a man on the face]

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on human faces luckily some of the mathematical concepts we've learned

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about can help us get our gardens organized and blooming in no time when

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it comes to gardening arrays can be a great help remember an array is an

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arrangement of objects into rows and columns you can make arrays out of all

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[a large array on a chalkboard of raccoons] sorts of stuff bottles raccoons and most importantly for our purposes flowers and

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vegetables oh and quick tips you might want to keep your arrays of raccoons

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away from your garden arrays offer all sorts of organizational possibilities [a tulip array on a piece of paper]

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when it comes to gardens you could make a neat array made up entirely of one kind

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of flower like this array of tulips or you can mix things up planting a row of

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tulips than a row of daisies then another row of tulips either way it's [an array with different rows of flowers in each column]

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still pretty and it's still an array arrays are also a great way to organize

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vegetable gardens you might want to grow all sorts of different kinds of

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[raccoon sneaking towards a vegetable plant] vegetables so why not grow separate arrays of each kind that way not only

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will your carrots be organized into a neat little rows and columns but your

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carrots will be separated from your lettuce which will be separated from

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your green beans and so on and no it's not like carrots and green beans are [a plate of carrots and green beans]

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natural enemies or anything but you can never be too careful as we've seen

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arrays are great for organizing gardens but perimeter can be useful too your

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garden is going to have an outside edge so why not dress up the perimeter with a [a square wooden flower bed in a garden]

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bunch of rose bushes they're not as strong as a concrete wall but they

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definitely smell a lot better unless you happen to be partial to the deceptive

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concrete it does has a distinctive bouquet [a raccoon in a flowerbed surrounded by rose bushes]

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