For a book about cutting out unnecessary work in the garden, parts of this are a lot of less than necessary work to read. Especially in the early chapters I found myself just wanting the author to get on with advice for what to do and how to do it more efficiently, but I suspect he rather enjoyed the cathartic snark in writing it. The fruit section was probably the most useful to me, but only because I know so little. Tidbits buried in the rest.