New house/garden that has been neglected there are dandelions everywhere and what I know as Grandfather pop out of beds (bindweed?)EVERYWHERE (I really need to stress this the roots are covering the entire garden just under the surface) they are even wrapping themselves around the flipping dandelions!!
At some point there has been sheeting put down and stones dumped on top but that seems to have been a few years ago as its mostly rotting and is not slowing the roots at all in fact the roots are just poking through it as if it's not there!
I've wasted a few weeks trying to remove the flipping dandelions by hand and it clearly is a waste of time!, Do I dig it up? Remove the sheeting and and remove top few layers of soil to get the roots of the Bindweeds away? What do I do first as randomly removing bits is not very effective?
I'm skint so it isn't possible to get someone in and I don't want to destroy the soil totally as I have children and we were looking forward to putting our potted herb garden into the ground and our mature Strawberry buckets are sending out tons of runners so I'm tempted to start putting them into the soil or will the bindweed choke them??
Yes I'm new to this