I might plant pumpkins in this first plot, that way I won't have to dig out the roots of the corn stalks. The pumpkins will grow right over them.

Good idea. I've been experimenting with no dig as much as possible, trying to encourage fungi and bugs and all the good soil stuff, and that means letting roots rot down with their entangled fungi as well. I love how the pumpkin vines shade the soil and encourage life underneath.

Won't be long before it's a bountiful garden again, full of colour and marigolds!