What is the best thing to use for weeds in your flower bed?
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Our flower beds have been overcome by weeds this year. It has been a constant battle.
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line the flower beds with cardboard,newspapers,heavy landscape fabric and top with mulch
once you have your flower bed established, pulling weeds is the only option, by using weed killer or white vinegar could kill your good plants.
I keep digging them up. If you get them before they seed you should get less and less every year. I also put mulch down in spring after I pull them.
Put shredded paper in your flower beds between the plants. Cover with mulch. If you apply the shredded paper while wet it will help it stay in place until you can cover it with mulch. We shred everything: ads that come in the mail, junk mail, all envelopes, etc. This is a good way to recycle junk mail in a good way.
Save old newspapers. Spread them around leaving "holes" for your plants, then wet them down. Cover with a thin layer of mulch. The newspaper can eventually be tilled into the soil. (I have to admit that my "best crops" were violets and poison ivy.)