Get Your Timing Right. When you start the game, you'll press the spacebar on your keyboard to get the catapult moving, then press it again launch to your gnome. You've got to be sure you don't press it too quickly, or you'll drop your gnome too early and it will fall either behind the catapult or right in front of it.

Once launched, the distance the gnome travels will appear at the bottom and with each bounce more flowers will be planted. It's simple enough, but there are some tricks to get the big air. To start the game, press the spacebar on your keyboard to get the catapult moving, then press a second time to launch the gnome.

I flew off the map - Garden Gnomes Google Doodle - YouTube. So... you can go backwards if you use the fat gnome guy and release on the backswing. If you bounce on the log at -28, you can go even further backwards. The grass disappears after -150 but the ground is still solid.