We tilled and cover cropped a section of the lot in December, hoping to use it as our veggie garden in '12. It was a last minute, impulse kind of a thing, and it was a mistake. There isn't time (or nice enough weather) for the seed to germinate and create enough biomass to significantly impact the soil there. So we have three choices: wait ANOTHER year to plant veggies, till under the tiny sprouts in the field and plant it anyway, or attemp to plant veggies into the decaying straw/compost in the herb garden beds. I'm going to go with option number three. I can't bear the thought of waiting another year, and I imagine the field should have several cycles of cover crop before we use it.
