Well I'm Learning

So it's now the end of Oct and over the last 6 months i've learnt a lot from trial and error.  Let's see what I've been up to. My biggest learning was the impact of low sun hours and the low angle of the sun.  My backyard is bounded by high hedgerows and retaining walls and in winter the number of sunhours falling on the beds was probably between 1 and 4.  Much too low to grow crops.  My root bed suffered the most here and I did get some small carrots from it but pretty much every thing else did not grow.

You can see how little growth in the root bed:
April:

May

June

I harvested the carrots late June as I'd got annoyed looking at them and heres the result.  The soil was too clay and poor also and that did not help.  They tasted good though.  You can see a potatoe plant in the bottom left corner of the bed.  This was an experiment with a sebago to see what would happen.  The new potatoes I got from the plant is show with the carrots.

  Next winter I will simply so green manure into this bed or a crop of shade loving veges if i can find some.