A living mulch could be your answer to weeds!
What grows quick and crowds out weeds is even better than a loose mulch! A radish is a good example. Plant a bed of radish two weeks before youe main plant and thin the area where the main plant goes!! Even in the middle of the row the radish can be tramped on and will flatten out but stay alive and stopweeds! Later pull out the radish and use them for mulch between rows! You can buy radish by the pound cheap or let yours go to seed! Has anyone else tried this?
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Some plants like the radish has shallow roots and will not hurt plants like tomatoes unless you let the radish get too big! Since the radish grows fast it will shade out other bad weeds! Let the radish grow for 2 weeks then scrap the top of the soli and the radish is gone but still good for a mulch by just leaving the scrapped radish inbetween the rows!