Beginner Gardening: Clearing a path, 1 by sgsidekick

sgsidekick wrote:
Hi. I have raised beds of cinderblock, and my problem is in keeping the growth down around them. I tried layers of soaked newspaper, but when they dried, they blew around my yard and over the fence into other yards! I spray straight vinegar, but that doesn't kill everything, and my yard smells like a pickle factory exploded. I've used Roundup in the past, being very careful not to get it on the fruit trees or into the beds themselves, but I really don't want to do that again!

This picture shows my garden in the winter stage. Been cleaned up since then, and I built a potato cage out of hardware cloth to keep the moles from eating my potatoes again THIS year!