Kill weeds with ground sheeting
Hi, as you can see my garden is full of perennial weeds and some others. Every time I pull them up they slowly re-inhabit the area. I was told that I can get rid of them permanently by covering them with a covering impenetrable to light (ideally permeable to water). Have had a look in amazon and it seems ground cover fabric often fails and the weeds grow through. Can anyone recommend a material that I should use and if it is likely to work if left covered till spring next year? Any other wisdom also welcome!

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If you put down a solid plastic sheet you stop water getting in and persistent weeds such as bindweed, couch grass, brambles and thistles will survive but the ground will be dry and that will make it inhospitable for good soil organisms such as worms, micro-organisms and beneficial fungae.
Believe me - we have both in our garden, the former left by previous oawners and the latter tried by the under-gardener who discovered the other day that his head gardener was right about plastic. O th eother hand, where we've put down cardboard the soil is lovely when we come to plant.
The only thing you can usuefully do is clear the weeds, taking out all their roots too and then plant things you like. If you can't plant straight away put down some cardboard held in place with pegs or stones then, when you can plant, add a decent mulch of well-rotted compost and/or manure and plant through the cardboard.
After that you have to treat it like a newly cleaned and painted room in your house that needs a weekly dust and vac except in this case it will be a regular bit of hoeing to remove any weedlings. Not exactmy hard work and very satisfying when your treasures grow and grow.
keep layering up as it rots down.
Don't know why someone has marked this post as spam, it's clearly not! Just someone recommending a product they've used.