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[quote=Anonymous]Someone (me) who has the farthest thing from a green thumb needs some advice.  I bought a house last fall that has a few flower beds that were completely overrun with weeds.  Earlier this spring, I spent the better part of a weekend pulling all the weeds out.  It was a complete waste of time as they repeatedly come back.  Now I just cut them short so the place doesn't look like a jungle.

I've learned that you can use newspaper or cardboard under mulch to suffocate the weeds.  I plan on doing that before the end of the summer to get a fresh start with the beds.  However, I'm not sure what I want to put in the flower beds just yet.

What's the best plan:

1. Lay down the weed covering and mulch and just have empty flower beds until next spring after I have time to figure out what I want to plant?  Will that be enough time to have fresh soil/dirt to plant?  Will I still have cardboard/newspaper remnants?

2. Plant something now and lay down the weed covering?  Does that make sense with summer coming to an end and fall and winter around the corner?  Will anything I plant now survive?

3. Do nothing until spring (other than cutting the weeds) and then plant and handle the weeds at that time?

Any advice is appreciated.[/quote]

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