With the spring rains and now the heat, many gardeners are having problems with perennial weeds in the flowerbed and garden like creeping Jenny (field bindweed) and thistles. The use of herbicides in the garden is not a choice, so what to do?
This is not a popular solution, however, hoeing or cutting the weeds off is the best solution right now. To suppress the weed growth, I use mulch whether plastic or straw (rotting alfalfa hay) is a good option.
I had good luck spraying the asparagus bed in the early spring for Bromegrass. Sprayed a couple of times before the asparagus came up and now, I can manage the few blades of grass returning. You can try spraying around the garden with Roundup to kill the weeds from repopulating the garden but be careful not to get the spray in the garden or flowerbed.
