No-dig method - weeds around the area

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I have the entire garden to plant, which currently is covered with low grass with lots of weeds on both sides.

I don't want to kill myself by doing the entire garden in one go. Only intend to place cardboard and cover compost on top for every 1 or 2 sqm2. But not sure if weeds near/beyond the area I target would need to be cleared a bit too. As the whole purpose of using cardboard is to kill weeds beneath. If I don't clean the surrounding areas, would the weeds in those area spread easily to the newly laid compost and defeat all the efforts of deweeding?

I cut the weeds short in all areas. But in some corners, it's pretty tricky to tackle unless I remove some really heavy pots. Please need someone to shed some light on this process! Thanks.

surely cutting the weeds will promote new growth, same as with any plant?

i used membrane to kill off some grassed areas, worked well but you still get the odd weed blown in by seeds

Weeds will settle in the compost. We did it with cardboard held in place with pallets on a very overgrown orchard, we still had to did brambles and remove bindweed but it made it much easier.