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You can attack these unwelcome plants any time of the year, but you’ll make faster progress if you start in late fall or early spring and thwart them before or just as they’re sprouting. Use a hoe, smother weeds with plastic or mulch, or carefully use an herbicide (or some combination of these tactics).

Then, in midsummer, make sure you don’t let weeds go to seed. Pull them, mow them down, and discard them outside your garden to keep them from coming back. There is a saying that nature abhors a vacuum; after you get weeds out, don’t leave empty space to tempt more weeds to move in. Overplant or cover the area as soon as possible. If the weeds go to seed, your weed problem has just gotten much worse. Weeding after a rain when the ground is damp and soft makes it much easier and more effective. Weeding can almost be therapeutic!