I hope you don't have as many waittillnextyears as the Cubs have had.

Hi! Hee hee, me too, otherwise Ill be realllllly old before I grow a carrot.

I think the people here before used a pre-emergent herbicide, Ive got almost zero dandelions and Im not getting any seeds to sprout. Not even the marygolds are growing and I remember just pulling those off the flowers and throwing them around as a kid and they'd grow all over the place.

I did get some stuff to sprout in the decomposed leaf stuff I raked up imn the back and put into pots. I guess there's hope.

:)

You can just put little soil pockets in that bed and plant now. There's little difference between what you did and a lasagna garden- sounds like a great idea.

If there's not enough depth of the compost on top- then a touch of soil and some clover seed, or something would be a great cover crop.

If it looks reasonable in the fall- you could plant garlic to overwinter (depending on where you live).

Sorry- I just get excited when I hear about plots like that and I have to be nosey and plan people's gardens :)

I also found some really nice wonderfully composted humus hidden in the crotch of the awful box elder tree! Ive started some lettuce seeds in that in a berry box and when they get bit enough, Ill do just what you said, Ill make a little pile of soil on top and plan them in that. Im really excited about it and am hoping for rain to soak those old yellow pages!