There is a book, but it basically is a no till method of amending and working the earth. You put a thick layer of wet newspapers down first (On top of grass). For potatoes add the seed potatoes and cover with straw. No digging just lift the straw when you want to steal a “new potatoes”
For other things add layers of kitchen waste, grass clippings, shredded paper, compost, manure, old sawdust, between layers of peat or any other organic material. You don’t have to plow etc. Just add plants, mulching with wet newpapers to keep the weeds down. (no hoeing) Add more material each year....My yellow clay is about a foot down now on original beds.
Now is the time of year to put the wet papers down on the wet grass to create new beds.....Add any material thoughout the winter with first grass clippings and peat on top for next spring.
I’m also preparing my pea bed....Will sow them Feb 1st in snow or not......Just sprinkle seeds thickly in a wide trench and cover with a half inch or so of warm dirt.(you’ve kept in basement or garage.)
That's sort of what I'm doing, building my Square Foot boxes on top of 2 laysers of thick cardboard right on top of unused (but mowed) pasture. Eventually that cardboard will disintegrate, but hpefully that grass and any weeds will be thoroughly dead by then. I tried to kill it by putting a black tarp (dark brown actuallly) over it and leaving it for a month. Ha! It just became a mini green house. The grass grew just fine underneath, it just was a paler grean. Since we were in a drought at that time, the grass seemed to like having the black tarp over it -- held in the moisture!
I gathered up the tarp and moved the garden to a more convenient location (nearer the gate -- I'm not totally stupid) and tried the cardboard/weed barrier method. Since there is no planting mix in the boxes yet, I may add newspaper at the bottom too. In any case, the grass in my previous location bounced back and, within a week, looked like nothing had been there at all!
I even have cardboard under the "plastic mulch" that will be the aisles. I do not want these beds to be contaminated by grass clippings when I mow, as much as I would like to have grass aisles. That would not be possible for me to maintain.