It’s that time of year to clear out all the beds and get them ready to overwinter garlic and onions.
My pumpkins that i spent days prepping a plot for, tilled, fertilized, automatic irrigation system, didn’t do well at all. The potatoes that i yanked from the pantry, let my son cut into pieces and basically tossed too close together in soil that i barely loosened up still full of grass, did amazing.
A 6x18 bed behind a barn that i forgot to water half the time filled this box about 3 times, which weighed around 30lbs each + we’ve just been pulling them to throw in with dinner for the past few nights.
A couple pest, a couple bad ones, but overall I’m super happy.
I gave a box to each of the neighbors on either side and kept one for myself
I lived in 8b, there’s still plenty of good things you can grow, like figs, currants, and kiwi fruit! I even grew some dwarf citrus that lived in pots indoors over the winter.
My current projects are a 4’ yuzu tree and a 6’ harvester peach tree both in a pot. I got them this past April.