I did something very similar, but on a much smaller scale, when I took on my second piece of plot.
That was waist high grass and had been for several years, so I dug a bit for other crops and the rest was pumpkins and squash through weed membrane, sitting on cut weeds and anything else I could get my hands on. They were smaller and less numerous than crops grown in cleared ground, but I got them. The weed membrane attracts slugs, but once the plants get going, they don't seem to cause problems. Probably too interested in the rotting stuff underneath. There were also weeds growing through the planting holes in the membrane, but I just pulled the tops off the worst of them. Squash are roughty toughty plants that can cope with a bit of weed anyway. The added bonus was the soil underneath was so much easier to cultivate once the membrane was lifted at the end of the year.
I think it was a Bob Flowerdew book that set me off down that route. He was an experimenter as well and would trial any growing ideas he thought might have legs
I reckon you might have a plan there