vegetables and sod

Around this time of year it is frequently heard that people are contemplating a next season market garden in what is currently a pasture/field/meadow ensconced in a beautiful lively sod - a sod teaming with life, an ecosystem entwined in tissues of interdependent root, debris and millions of organisms supporting the life of, what is really weeds, to the one with carrot in mind. To eradicate that and produce veggies the next spring is a very serious matter that should be considered only in dire economic/survival situations.

Better to ease on over...a planting of buckwheat twice over followed by oats and peas to winter kill and gives generous compost and lime/phospahate rock if necessary gives a more opportune garden for vegetables come springtime.