Ok I think I have the garden figured out guys:
You need to click a seed to plant in each box you have from the upper bar.
Once you click it, the icon for that food will appear on your planter box and your seed will start to grow in it. Once the seed is fully grown, your harvest item will appear on top of the box. You need to click on the grown item on top of the box. Once you do, it will disappear, and you need to click on another seed to plant in your planter.
For each item you harvest, you will drive up your percentage for bonus animals to appear in every other game on your board. To see the percentage, look in the very lower left corner of your screen for a small triangle in a circle. Click that triangle, and it will pop up that window to show you the percentage. Plant and harvest to drive up those rates and thereby your multiplier for all the other games on the board.
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