'new' plot - getting started by overwintering

[The Dirty Hoer]

Hi all. I would welcome your advice.
Today I have gained use of a plot of land (12m x 4m, sheltered and well drained) it was a veg garden for many years but not for some time. There's a lotof work needed to get it into shape but I would like to a few things in to overwinter so that it doesn't just feel like hard work. I have some early sprouting broc plants in tubs that I could transfer and some garlic bulbs on order. I also have some leeks that could go in.
What else would be good? Suggestions please!

[paul]

Hi Hoer,

Spring cabbage and some charlotte potatoes would do well.

[heskie]

Originally Posted by The Dirty Hoer

Hi all. I would welcome your advice.
Today I have gained use of a plot of land (12m x 4m, sheltered and well drained) it was a veg garden for many years but not for some time. There's a lotof work needed to get it into shape but I would like to a few things in to overwinter so that it doesn't just feel like hard work. I have some early sprouting broc plants in tubs that I could transfer and some garlic bulbs on order. I also have some leeks that could go in.
What else would be good? Suggestions please!

If it hasn't been well looked after you could improve your future crops enormously by sowing a green manure mix now, it'll germinate this time of year, give lots of green growth which will put nitrogen in the soil and, good news, green manure will suppress weeds. Just watch out for rye though as it inhibits seed germination, so you don't want that on beds you'll be sowing in directly.

I sow a mix of field beans, tares, fenugreek and phacelia. Have a look at the Organic Gardening Catalogue page on green manures

[Thorny]

Hi,
I am just re-inventing my veg garden after a fifteen year gap, and I would like to use green manure. Is it too late to sow clover?

[Thorny]

Hi,

I am making a bit of a mess of this reply, but what I want to ask is, is it too late to sow clover? and how clean should the seed bed be?

[Willonthewall]

Thank you - I know what to do now whilst I'm getting everything ready - brilliant!

[zoomer44]

No it's not too late to sow green manure I sowed some last week and it is already showing signs of growth.