digging over a 5 foot x 2.5 foot border for veg patch

determined_new_ms

Hi I have decided to turn my attention to my garden and get a couple of veg patches ready for next year.

Currently I have been digging over the area and removing the plants/bushes that have been there for years (we moved here a couple of year ago). What do I need do to get the soil ready for a veg patch next year? Some of these bushes have been growing for years and one of them grows like wild fire!

What would be good easy plants to grow?

Thanks in advance for any advice

RAS

Truy and get your mitts on field beans (small broad beans) which are a good winter cover for ground and fix nitrogen.

Or start a compost tractor now http://www.easydigging.com/blog/compost-tractor.html ; the slight modifications being that you do this on a smaller scale and remove the unfinished portion to another bed of a compost bin rather than just forward into the next section.

You need the stuff you would normally compost from the house, the bushes you just pulled up either chipped or cut into small pieces and anything else carboniferous. You can throw on the dregs from drinks and cooking if it gets to dry.

You want to create a 2-3 foot high pile of clippings, veg and fruit peeling, the last lawn mowings, leaves, and anything else you can find that rots. If you can top it off with some free bark chippings (we get our from a tree surgeon) that makes it neater. That will rot down to about a foot and give you a really good medium into which to plant stuff in the spring.