Perennial garden reonovation?

Hi -

	I have a perennial bed that I'd like to renovate - I had my
"garden assistant" dig it up for me a year ago spring and although he added
some chopped up leaves nothing else was done to improve the soil. I
promptly planted it with perennials and some annuals but nothing did
very well the first season. This year I've been putting things in rather
haphazardly just to fill up space and again nothing is doing very well
(except the weeds, of course!).
	I've decided that the soil needs major ammending with organics and want to
dig the whole bed up and start again.  I hoped to do it this fall.  I
read the chapter in "The Well-Tended Perennial Garden" and she says its
best to do this in the spring. My specific question - should I really
wait, will pulling out the plants and replanting them before the winter
disturb them too much? (Plants include Buddleia, white cone flowers
(which never bloomed),MOnarda (again no blooms), Penstemon, daylilies,
etc.) T he soil seems to be mostly sand.
	General question - any other suggestions or tips for this
endeavor?

Sharon
Medford, MA
Zone 5/6

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