as a matter of principle
I used everything to overseed the 'grass sod' to produce roots:
broad beans and clover for free natural nitrogen,
but the rest came mostly from flax seeds and birdseeds.
Now the birdseeds included lots of sunflower seeds
and over the months they kept on growing taller, bigger, stronger
with nice yellow flowers to look at
and two three yellow birds -American Goldfinches
and an olivegreen bird, acrobatic, upside-down bird
I can't decipher from the books
are the beneficiaries of the sunflower seeds
until the birds move away from the approaching fall, winter
the few birds are still here and whenever I go outside they "speak"
but soon they will be gone, rain coming today...
but nothing cama
first frost last year was middle of September
freezing all tomatoes, but this year I have only a few,
ate one tomato already, but barely more to come
in several spots the buckwheat grew taller than me
and up the trellis with some tomatoes and some scarlet runner beans,
but no fruit
once the birds are gone I will 'work' the surface some
not to disturb the root zone, put up some more straw
and with sheep manure on top
and over seed the works with more clover
I started near the kitchen already
after the peas were gone
I overseeded with red clover
and with sweet clover to open up the ground
deep into the innards of the earth
but the clovers grow as slowly as when early in the year
I still covered them up with plastic to 'push' nature..
after the first frost there's more 'heat' and summer to come yet
right into the snow
so clovers grow lustily
among the birdseed were also barley
and sorghum which still stands tall
over 6"
the barley did good and when I cut it
the seed went into the ground
over which I then spread some fine potting soil
over which I broadcasted the clover