We've torn out our raised beds because the weeds were just too much to manage. Part of the problem was that we had grass between the beds, and it found the well watered raised beds and got thru the multi layered weed control fabric, and just went to town on our beds. Here's what I need to figure out.... this is a large area, and there's no way I can muscle the grass that is still up there between where the beds were out of the ground for our new larger, and better protected beds. My plan is to cover the entire garden area with high grade weed barrier, build the new beds out of stone, and bark mulch between them to control grasses.
Problem 1: the grass is dormant, so even powerful weed killers aren't gonna work this time of year, (I'm not a fan of lots of chemicals either) and waiting till spring to kill it means we lose gardening season.
Problem 2: commercially available weed barriers kinda suck. I've tried the big box stuff, and it just doesn't hold up to weeds. Anybody got advice for a good geotextile that's gonna actually work long term?
I'm open to ideas, don't want to waste what time I have left spinning my wheels.