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Whats the best thing to cover the weeds on our new plot, while we work on one half first ??

Depends on the weeds but thick cardboard weighed down with a few sholvels of manure/soil or some bricks will last until next year. At least it's cheap!
However if you have bramble etc it will just grow through carboard..

What's it like - madly overgrown or just covered in annual weeds?

Sorry to intercept this thread but we are nearly at the bottom of daughters plot & it is thick with brambles & willow. What is the best way of getting them out. BTW we don't want to use chemicals & there is a brook behind the willow.
Apologies again ;) ::).

Its just overgrown.  Plenty of thistles but no brambles.  Just want to tidy it up so not blowing over other plots till we can get to that half of the plot.

grannyjanny your gonna have to hack them back to ground level and then dig the roots out

janmac, hack them down,with a massock for example, then lay cardboard over the top and if you can, some kind of plastic or tarp, weighting it all down. In a few weeks they will have mostly rotted down. If there is no light they will not grow, although it doesn't stop 100% of bindweed. That could grow in the bloody Mariana trenches I swear.