William Bronson

I just made up the term.

Winter wheat, winter rye, fava beans, anything that can start in late summer or fall, over winter and finish in the spring and early summer.

Edit: there are other plants, like good king henry or miners lettuce that might fit the bill as well.

I was asking about horseradish, but it's good to know about artichokes.
I have a fascination with the idea of a timesharing plots between warm season perinnials and overwintering annuals.
Sowing a bed of comfrey with winter rye for example.
With that in mind, a bed of horseradish sown with fava beans might work.

Do they hold their leaves overwinter?

My gardening buddy has a sickly bean plant.
The nearby tomatoes are going gangbusters
Any ideas on what's wrong?

Christopher Weeks wrote:If I saw that volunteer in my garden, my first thought would be Solanum nigrum. (which excites me more than tomatoes, but I'd keep it either way. And I don't know if that even grows where you are.)

After your comment I started to rethink my animosity towards the black nightshade and relatives.
I decided to spare any I found, and maybe even spread them.
After all, I've not been able to eradicate them and yet my volunteer tomatoes haven't been affected yet.
Even if they are, the results might be magical.
So now I have some Wonderberries growing in my nursery pots!

I just planted some two in milk crates.
I'm mostly excited for the leaves, I'm imagining they will be great in a saag or other cream sauce.
While I was trying to figure out where I would plant them, they dried out a couple of times, but always grew new leaves.
That bodes well for using them as a cut and come again crop.

I think the roots will have pest repellent applications, but my research is inconclusive.
It has reputation for protecting potatoes, but the studies I've found don't support that.
I though they could be a good substitute for comfrey,but they seem too "spready".
I think they will eventually go under the fruit trees, less as a pest deterent, more because they will do little harm there.

Chickens are my favorite composting tool!
Seriously, they shred and turn many bags of leaves and hundreds of pounds of food scraps every year.

To turn their pile, and retrieve the finished compost I use a garden fork.
I only bought first garden fork not that long ago, now I have many
I think I now have more garden forks than I do shovels!

Most of the compost goes into buckets for transportation, which makes the humble bucket my third most used tool for composting.

Coming on a distant 4th place is the composting auger.
I have one for my dog poop bucket, and another at my sisters house.
Her compost is contained in a large commercially made residential compost and is almost entirely food scraps.
The "augur" we use there is a steel rod with two folding spurs that close when it's shoved into the pile and pop open when it's yanked out.
It's like blunt harpoon, and it does good job aerating the pile.

We have a growing population of "Lazarus" Lizards.
I think they are why we don't have more slugs than we do.

I think other inflexible, modular, biologically inert items might work as mulch.
Aluminum pans, or ceramic plates, for instance.
Aluminum flashing,would be more flexible but still ridgid by comparison to black plastic mulch.

Petrified hessian/ concreted burlap is another possibility for a ridgid mulch.

As the title says.
I have been thinking about trying this for quite some time.
My hesitation stemmed from a fear of creating habitat for slugs.
This bed kept drying out and ,Alliums are fairly slug resistant, so I tried it here.
I chose light colored tile, but I think I will blacken one side of each if I continue to use them.
The dark side will be for early spring and late fall.

In regards to inputs, I just recently garbage picked about 20 pounds of organic bananas.
We ate some and fed the rest to the chickens.

This is a fairly common find behind Trader Joe's or Aldi stores.
I was actually a little disappointed, as I was hoping for onions.
As it was I only took what was easy to grab.
There were also many  bags of lemons, but I have no use for them.
Getting nitrogen for the compost pile is easy if you garbage pick.