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Notably, the kitchen garden and its environs offer a poisons-free, flora-rich, threat-free (thanks to being located within a protected,
conservation area) sanctuary the year round to the birds, insects and mammals without whose partnership neither the garden nor those who work in it could survive.
In all relevant respects, Tresillian's kitchen garden is an allotment writ large.
Its performance and its results can be repeated -- in full or restricted form -- by the rented allotment.
This instruction explains how.
By design, it is for those who do not know how to make the soil produce food, and for those who do not know how to manage an allotment. Especially, it is for those who do not know that the moon can help to elevate the quality of harvested crops from the merely good to the superlatively excellent, as well as remove the uncertainty and the untidiness that, for both initiated and uninitiated, can become an increasingly burdensome element of the business of working with the soil. Also, it applies equally to the garden that offers an allotment-sized area for kitchen-garden purposes.
The instruction comprises