Good on you papa-pepper, to try and teach you how to suck eggs, in the vegetable garden, as you dig it over, try and leave a trench open, mama-pepper can put all the household compostable stuff, and the weeds into here. When the trench if full, turn the next row of soil over it and leave the next trench open ready for mama-pepper.
Works really well if the garden is big enough, save making a compost heap as well.
As a side line, when travelling as a horticultural machine seller, it was easy to tell if the place you were visiting was Chinese ownership or European.
If the vegetables went all the way to the house = Chinese.
If there was some lawn and a few flowers, then garden = European.
I think the reason was "you can't sell grass" and they spent all their time in the gardens working anyway.