Fallow year for front yard veggie garden - help!

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8. wood chips.

my little farm has been using wood chips for pathways and mulch, as well as for our hugelpiles.
i made up a container mix this year w a pile of aged chips, last year's container soil, a little fertilizer and some mineral grit.
things are booming.

a good cover of wood chips, i would say 6" if you can, mixed in next year, will really revitalize your soil. they rot about half way in a year, and the rest gives you good mechanics. they will rot down in a couple years.

wherever i have laid down a heavy bed of chips has turned into luscious soil.