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Weed or dig ?

powderworkspowderworks Posts: 51
in Problem solving
I have four vegetable beds. 
In a week or twos time they will be empty. Do I need to weed them prior to digging for winter or can I simply dig over ?
Thanks 

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    We don't dig ours anymore.  We weed out nasties like bindweed as much as we can then rake level and mulch with cardboard and then garden compost or strimmings from the grass and wildflowers we left long over summer.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    On a weedy bed that is otherwise in good heart I would ‘fork over’ weeding as I go, rather than dig over properly. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited September 2023
    powderworks said:
     Do I need to weed them prior to digging for winter or can I simply dig over ?
    It's up to you.  Digging and turning the soil is traditional.  If you regard that as the simplest, do that.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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