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     After all the work and money I put into my veggie gardens I seem to have best results from what God plants Out back where I had my ducks & geese, I never dropped a seed. Yet I have sunflowers, and one each tomato and what appear to be squash and perhaps watermelon growing stronger than anything I'm tending.
     I'm just mowing around them and letting them do whatever God wants them to do. Also I have a few stalks of corn where I had bird feeders that are SO much taller than the corn I planted.

     In a pair of my raised beds I've planted herbs & garlic. All over my bit of property I find wild garlic growing, well wildly. Whenever I find it I pull it up and replant it in my garlic patch. The regular garlic is quite larger but the wild stuff is native or at least has been here long enough to know where it wants to grow. I believe in  a few years I'll have a strain with the size of domestic and the hardiness of wild.