plant right after weeding?

My garden has about 10 years' growth of bermuda and crab grass. I'm pulling it up one section at a time, digging up as many of the runners as I can. My question is, should I put in other plants right after I clear a section or wait until some of the grasses reemerge so I can pull them up again? I've found in the past that new growth will emerge from old runners that I didn't know were buried under the soil--thus, allowing new growth seems a good way to identify and pull up existing, old runners. On the other hand, I've read that establishing new plants will help prevent weed growth. I'd appreciate any comments or advice! Thanks!

If you wait until no weeds come back you will never plant anything!
Plant now and pull weeds as they come up. The plants and the mulch will help discourage weeds but some will always come back.
It's just an ongoing process.

I made my garden right in the middle of the back yard lawn. We just tilled up a big section, and raked up as many of the grass pieces as possible. It was a lot of work! I planted in it right away, and of course there were many grass sprouts that appeared, along with weeds. That was 3 years ago, and I'm still fighting weeds and grass trying to sprout in the garden. If I had it to do all over again, I would have tilled and then placed cardboard over the soil, soaked it with the garden hose, then covered it with pine straw. Leaving it like that all summer, fall and winter would have killed all the weeds and grass, and the garden would have been ripe for planting the following spring.

annepin,
Honey if you want to read a funny blog read mine it is funny and if i waited to plant anything i would not have planted anything it's time to plant and dont for get to leave little markers up you can even leave up string lines until the seeds come up if you plant seed I did. click on my name and hit read blog click on the diffrent sections from oldest to newest trust me it is the growth of the Garden Imposable to the Garden Possable and it was worth every bit of my time and effort the Lord has blessed me as he will you if you will just start your Garden Possable too.

The Sarg.

Sgt, I really enjoyed reading your blog. You seem like such a hard worker....very persistent, and optimistic, too! Keep up the good work.

if i can over come the odds any one can all it takes it a little persistents and the will to not give up or quit. i will have some new pic's soon to put up . i have to un load my camra from an outing with family then i will up dat the garden photos it has realy growen compaired to the ones i have posted .even the lil maders are 3 x their size . ;)

And then ten thousand birds would have pooped out ten thousand seeds and you'd still have weeds :)

newto's law say it would happen that way

If you saw the weed problem I have, you'd know what I mean. It's a lot easier to stay on top of a few weeds that sprout from bird poop than it is to have to tackle grass roots, as well. But we can all do whatever works for us individually, and learn from our mistakes and successes in the process, right?

Aman HS I'll be the first one to admit that with my weeds Vs. veggies blog lol them lil fellers will wate till you turn your back to sprout up and laugh at ya when ya go in the house while they bury their roots in the dirt i know all about them weeds their mean LOL.

I have a huge problem with weeds as well, especially foxtails. I have been doing a section at a time of clearing the weeds. I found out about Preen from my neighbor and my grandfather also uses it. I have just tried it and will see how it turns out. Won't harm plants, just prevents them from growing from seed......

That's an excellent point! Thanks for the reality check. I just worry about disturbing any plants I put in since I will probably have to continually dig up more stolons.

Ret_Sgt_Yates--thanks for the laughs! I'm impressed by your industriousness.

annepin,

I am not sure what you mean By : "I'm impressed by your industriousness" I am a lil slow i took a hit to the noggen i dont prossess things like i should can you explain what you mean . ... i have to laugh at the garden it has been fun and and work too but well worth the effort things are looking awesome and growing well the good Lord has blessed me many times over.