Preparing the Community Garden Plot for Winter

I've dreamed of this for years. Yesterday, Jonathan and I finally were given our own plot in a community organic garden that's less than three blocks from our front door. Our space is the bare one in the middle, with Jonathan turning the soil. It was not used this past summer, so it was full of thistles, nettles and rampant lemon balm, dill and garlic... as well as a few chili peppers and carrots!

What a wonderful thing to be able to dream about it all winter. (The summer before last, the man who works the adjacent plot harvested 100 pounds of heritage tomatoes!) If I have a chance I'll get some garlic, onions and chives in before the snow flies, and possibly the rose bush that stopped blooming in our garden after the tree canopy finally closed over. But first we have to figure out a way to transport two large garbage bins full of Jonathan's gorgeous compost over there. I think we're looking at multiple bike cart trips.