I love the wood chips in perennial beds, but I hate them in annual beds. Trees and shrubs grow fine. I don't find that my annual plants grow very well in the beds with wood chips. I have some bed with annuals, including fruit and veg crops, and perennials (including fruit bushes and trees), and all the beds initially had wood chips, placed in 2019. I'm in zone 9, Charleston, SC. I'm moving the chips away from the places where I plant annuals. My theory is that you can't really keep the chips out of the soil if you're planting and replanting an area, and that the chips are, therefore, robbing the soil of nitrogen.
If you're planting two annual crops per year, I wouldn't use wood chips there.
