Winter Squash Winter Beans: food to store for months, from autumn harvests

(Do read this for more info!) High value veg to nourish us in winter and spring, with wonderful flavour and nutrient density. Beans are so worthwhile for their protein, squash for their sweetness. Climatically this garden is zone 8b, summer days mostly 20-22C or 70F, last frost mid May, first one mid to late October. Barely warm enough to ripen Butternut squash, the Kuri and Crown Prince (3-4kg weight/6.5-9lb) are more reliable. Beans are Czar and Borlotti. See this post for rapid shelling of Borlotti beans, when the shells are dry https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/octo... You notice the clean, strong growth here, thanks to #nodig with compost mulch. Healthy plants and few weeds: see this video on the ease and simplicity of ground preparation    • No dig explained in 3 minutes  . How I made the garden in year one, from weedy pasture with no tillage    • NO DIG ABUNDANCE, a weedy field becomes ga...   Video filmed 8.9.17 and edited by David Adams (Edward is away at university). More information in my book Winter Vegetables, buy it cheaper here than on Amazon https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/prod... My website and all my books are about growing great veg in the easiest, most time saving way. A good starter book is the perennial Diary https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/prod... which guides you through the no dig year.