We've decided to give our middle field over to horticultural pursuits. Prior to this it was pasture which hadn't been actively managed with ALOT of creeping buttercup (in fact - almost entirely creeping Bs) . The soil is heavy clay and a soil analysis carried out about 18 months ago revealed - predictably - fairly acidic soil.
Last autumn we had the field ploughed over and we haven't been able to do anything else with it over the winter due to it being so wet :-(. Now the spring is here, we have managed to rotavate a patch and clear the worst of the rocks. We have marked out the beds - 1 metre wide - with 1 metre paths between.
My dilemma is - I would really like to take time to get the pH right, get some well rotted manure down, get the beds properly bordered and clear the first flush of weeds. Obviously that's going to take time since the manure and lime have to be separated by a few months etc etc
I would rather not plant anything this year and just keep the beds covered once we've cleared the weeds whilst we sort things out and plan our next move.......... but I feel guilty about not doing something with it now..... but we've got so much else going on........ but I feel guilty about not doing something about it now....... but but but.....