I'm hoping to revive this slightly forgotten thread, but also subvert it slightly for my own devious ends (mwhahahaha and other such maniacal noises).

One of my plans for this year is to finally grow something in the garden that I've had for nearly three years and mostly ignored. It's north facing, about 10 metres long and all lawn and patio at the moment, and my hope is to make a veg patch at the north end, by the shed. This end is furthest away from the house and gets the most sunlight. At the moment I have two compost bins standing on it, which have been fed since last spring with grass cuttings, veg peelings, egg shells and tea bags. The plan is to demolish these bins which are made of unsightly old drawer units, dig all the compst contained therein into the new patch and acquitre a slightly better looking plastis dustbin type thing to replace them.

Now that the moving frenzy has mostly quietened down, and I'll actually be spending most of my free time at home I'm thinking this weekend would be a good time to create the veg patch. I don;t really know what the soil is like yet, as I've really never done anything with it before. I'm guessing I may have to invest in some top soil or other nutritional additives to gee it up a bit.

Does anyone have any advice, for the creation of the patch, things to plant, anything at all really. You may start from the assumption that I know absolutely nothing.