Sounds like we have a similar climate, Justin. Your profile says you’re in north Texas, zone 8a? I’m in the middle of Utah, zone 7b. I’m in a valley, with tall mountains on three sides. How about you?
I get 18 inches of rain a year, most of it in the winter. We usually have 90-100 degree daytime temperatures from May through October, with basically no rain. Our winters tend to have daytime temperatures of around 30-50 degrees. So the top of our soil tends to get a lot of freeze-thaw cycles, and our soil underneath mulch rarely freezes at all. So I can easily store root crops in the ground all winter and pull them out to eat almost any day it’s not snowing. Is that similar to your climate?
I’m thinking that fact that my soil basically never freezes solid in winter, as long as there’s a bit of mulch on top, makes it pretty reasonable to try moringa as a dieback perennial.
I’m also planning to grow katuk. I’ve just started a thread about that!