I'm planning to plant potatoes (do these go shoot-up, or shoot-down when
planting ?!), carrots, garlic, parsnips, ?fennel, ?broccoli and anything
else I like the look of and have room for !

I'd try looking somewhere like the BBC Gardener's world site under veg
growing as some veg like manure and some don't.

--
Hayley
(gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)