good morning ppim,
ultimately all gardens and plants are fractal in nature, some friends of mine ran a workshop on how to make a spiral herb garden for the solstice, but i missed it, I was up the mountain meditating
The Anastasia books have good info about how to grow things, she suggests keeping the seeds in your mouth for ten minutes and walking barefoot on the soil before planting, also the best fertiliser is urine (28% Nitrogen), as the plants grow they learn what vitamins and nutrients are missing from the donor and produce them, magic. Of course you do the bare foot thing first.
I gave up on my own garden, the place i live is not ready for it yet, as for the forum, it seems to have become a bit fractellated, just like ourselves.