1.   But that was before the gardening bug bit.

2.   But then the Stokeses got bitten by the gardening bug.

3.   For the homeowner newly bitten by the gardening bug, the time of reckoning is at hand.

4.   Some children catch the gardening bug early, and they speak with the voice of experience.

5.   Thirty-five years later, the grapefruit tree was so large that he had to give it away, but the gardening bug stayed with him.