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[quote=Anonymous]You don’t have to treat or resoil. You just need to weed. If you want to do this the hard and fast way, take a digging fork (looks like a pitch fork with thick tines) and methodically loosen all the soil, levering all of the plants out, weeds and wanted plants. Toss the weeds and keep all the perennials to the side. When you have weeded the entire bed replant the perennials, water it, and then mulch it. The mulch will keep down weeds, but you will still have to weed it.

If you don’t want to take the perennials out, weed with a hand fork instead of a digging fork and target the weeds. Then mulch.

Every inch of soil needs to be covered by something or there will be weeds. Ideally then soil will be covered with plants you want, but you can use mulch while the plants fill in. One thing you can do is declare some aggressive low-growing plant that loves your garden a ground cover and let it go nuts. For me that is violets, yarrow, and evening primrose. All are native, easy, pretty, and aggressive enough to serve as a living mulch.[/quote]

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