The organic vegie garden is in!! Whahoo!

My large organic vegetable garden is all planted with corn, beans for drying, green beans, 300 onions, carrots, turnips, radishes, cabbage, greens, summer and winter squashes!! In a couple of weeks, I will plant the very tender tomato, eggplant and cucumber seedlings. This year, I tried the "three sisters" planting of a corn and pole bean seed in the same hole with winter squash around them. The pole bean grows up the corn stalk, both using the corn for support, and in return strengthening the corn in the wind. Also, corn is a heavy feeder and beans replace nitrogen back into the soil. The winter squashes (this year, Ambercup and Buttercup) are a live mulch.
Also, I've been reading The Findhorn Garden book: I LOVE their spirit of cooperation with nature. For instance, I'm not killing my gophers, who provide the service of aerating the soil. I do use gopher sticks that are metal 8" poles that go into the ground and emit a sound that annoys the gophers. The gophers and I dance around the garden that way all summer. Yes, they eat some of my plants but I just plant extra for them. I don't want to spend the whole summer killing gophers as when you kill one, another fills their spot.
Last Fall, I fed a hungry bear that came to my porch and ate dried dog food before it went into hibernation. It clearly didn't want any trouble, it was starving from last year's drought. I'm glad I did. And the bear hasn't returned this year. Can't do bees though, now can I?!