Grow Your Own Magazine

You will never get rid of your weeds.

I use rotovators extensively and your HAVE to get rid of the weeds first.

Bindweed, buttercup and couch can all regrow from the smallest root fragment and guess what rotovating will do?

Right, it will take one two foot bindweed root and give you at least twenty-four new bindweed plants, you will never even see some of the fragments, but they will grow.

You have two options.
1/. Organic.
Stick at it with slow, methodical and muscular digging, removing every root you find. One of our old boys does this method, two hours every day.
2/. Pragmatic.
Use glyphosphate weedkiller (Roundup or Tumbleweed), spray the lot, leave two weeks, burn off the dead stuff, leave two weeks and repeat. Then rotovate. This is a start of plot operation, hence the label.

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in the hours of darkness you might have time to read a book or two. I've found Joy Larcom's Grow Your Own Vegetables to be very helpful. But have a look in the library and see what they've got.
Personally this time of year I'd be inclined to bung a few things in and see how they go - weeds and all. Try spuds and later on, sweetcorn and beans.
I've found rebuilding the compost heap to have an amazing effect - lovely compost very quickly.