Hello! We're on our 2nd year of gardening a large 30x50 garden in MN. Last year was the first year we made a garden area & pretty much rushed getting the grass torn up & seeds planted. It was awful with the weeds & we couldn't keep up!! The final crop was low & terrible. This year we're trying something different - I read an article about prepping the ground: in early April/May, cover the ground with plastic tarps & leave covered for 4-6 weeks. This will kill off weeds & actually from the heat of the sun & lack of sun, turn weeds into mulch, making the soil rich for growing. Not sure if you can believe everything you read, but we're on week 5 & getting antsy to pull back the tarps & see if we have a weedless planting area. Has anyone heard of such thing? 🙂