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The rolling estate and garden in Molumbia (my own duchy protectorate) For the 15 years or so, I have had a garden growing out back. Both at my previous house and then my current house. At the current domicile, since 2011. In the Old Testament, land was to lay fallow every 7th year. So, this is year 7. Technically, I have added new dirt every couple of years, so it is not entirely the same soil. But, the principle stands. This year I am contemplating not growing vegetables. Take a year off. Chill. Ar my previous house, I would plant a multitude of tomatoes, peppers, kale, beans, squash, etc., and lay down some weed block sheets, and then let the strong survive. Good Plants vs. the Weeds. A Darwinian death-match for scarce resources. But, then the groundhogs came and it all ended in a spectacular collapse.  My back-yard fastidious pain-in-the ass neighbor no doubt took glee in watching the fiasco. He'd get all riled about the garden chaos but then hire exterminators to spray