Nature is pretty amazing at how it is able to fashion all kinds of interesting mechanisms to keep itself up to date with conditions.
I don't know if @m31 grows garlic, but perhaps she has a tip sans the pesticide :)
Perhaps next year if there are no major projects on the cards, I will get my hands dirty in the soil for realsies :)
I'd say do that but beware of the back problems that might arise. While it felt amazing at times this summer, I got my back and waist aching since my bod was generally unaccustomed to such kind of work.
Planting trees is great. Being stiff as a tree afterwards when you get some muscles blocked...was a first for me and not that great.
Still, I want to do more. Besides, once you start, you need to do more since otherwise your planting "projects" go to waste. It's either them or you, eventually ;)
I dreamed of planting old and ready to be eaten carrots last night, waiting for them to give new carrots somehow. Obviously I am staking my carrots and relying on their APR properties. Ah, the fungible carrots!
I just noticed we're now literally writing carrots and sticks here :)