I agree, clear the weeds, top dress with 50mm or more each of manure and compost. The no dig principle does allow you to be cropping, planning, planting crops all year round.
Many people on allotments make the mistake of just growing from spring to autumn, which to me is a waste, what about the rest of the year?
My plot is coming on nicely, will be approaching my second year of growing in early November. The first lot of manure arrived today, so gave my trenches between my late crop of potatoes a top dressing, rounded off with chipped bark and then a small sprinkling of lime, to balance any acidity. Hopefully this will protect them until Christmas so we can have new potatoes with out Christmas lunch.
The idea to is to keep the potatoes warm now that the weather is getting colder. Gave a top dressing of manure around my fruit bushes and raked it over to kill off any grass and to feed the bushes ready for next spring.
The compost bins got a few loads of manure as well, the smaller one just one load the second much larger 4′ x 12′ bin got several loads, this will be topped off with some bark and then piled up with more manure. The idea being that this will all be ready for top dressing in spring.
There are some crops planted as well, 60 cabbages/cauliflowers and radar onions, spring onions. The 32′ x 6′ plot got some broad beans (aqua dulce) planted in them last week ready for picking in spring.
Well that is me done for today, more digging tomorrow before more manure arrives at the weekend if not before. Away for a few days from Wednesday, so it will get one more dose of slug pellets before I go away just to deter the slugs, will be moving away from those in the coming years but for now will stick with them. So for now that is half the plot dug over or with crops in it or top dressed with manure and chipped bark. That just leaves the remainder of the plot which will be covered in chipped bark/manure ready for top dressing of compost in spring.