[Herbalist] What's the logic of gardens?

[dwilson]

Being able to fertilize, remove weeds and shade plants ect, enables
gardeners to out grow natural means of production by large percentages
(thousands to one )
 My hops plants tonight for example.
 http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/jamy/pic/hops.jpg
Wild (European) hops grow slowly here (zone 4b)6 feet and a few flowers in a
summer but if you bring them home and fertilize, I have gotten 25 feet and
massive amounts of flowers.
If you look close you can see today's gardening labours, a mulch of wood
chips and horse manure.
:-)
Sheepstealer