Soil Ammendments.

With the rash of unseasonably warm days here in the midwest, my mind has began to wander outdoors. More specifically to the crop I intend on planting outside this year. This will be my first outdoor crop, and first crop using soil as a medium. I have access to plenty of soil from what has been my vegetable garden in recent years. It has proven to be fertile, and produced big crops of tomatoes, corn, green beans and the like, but I'm wondering if I can expect the same results while using it to grow herb.

I don't see a reason to buy $25 bags of dirt, if I have good black, rich, compost based soil available by the truck load for free.

Anyway, I'm rambling and I need to get to the question. What, if anything do I need to add to said soil to get optimum results come fall? I know I will need to fertilize throughout the course of the summer, but right now I'm wondering more about what I need to gather as an addition to my soil preplanting.

Just for the sake of knowledge, I plan on planting hardened off clones in 3x3x3 holes that I have dug, to remove the current dirt and replace it with my more fertile ground from the vegetable garden.


Thanks in advance for all your help.

You're native soil sounds pretty good, or whatever you've been using in the garden. Truckloads for free? Damn. I wish I had that. Try and get a truck of earthworm casting, oh baby that would cost sooo much.
The Organic section has all the super soil recipes - with everything in it that you amend the soil with.