So I have a lasagna bed- last year it hosted a couple squash plants.. this year it hosted a bunch of yellow wax beans- till Mexican Bean Beetles showed up and I yanked every bean plant out before they could have an impact on beans in other parts of the gardens. There are still a pair of green peppers at the back of the bed.

I was going to start a fall crop of broccoli, or maybe peas but.. then I thought about it, and maybe I should soil it up instead for next spring.

I have lots of grass clippings, just mowed down the back yard today. I also have some early fall leaves from my cherry trees. And some chicken coop scrapings since I need to clean out the neighbors coop from when they had chickens two years ago before I can use the coop. A couple horses worth of poop too. And I got a bale of straw. I could use all of this to build up a new raised bed- or I could amend my lasagna bed.

I know green manure crops are great at this time of year- problem is, with my schedule, green crops turn into seedy weed crops to darn fast for me to deal with. So if I do that, I need to do it last minute the winter kills it kind of thing rather than I can pay attention and kill it and turn it at the right time this fall. But I have no idea what green manure crops fit that bill.

It's just killing me to leave a bed totally empty at this time of year. So what should I do? Take a pitch fork to it and turn it all over and start new lasagna layers for next springs soil? Or no, keep on with a fall crop and build up soil sometime in October after harvest?