Perennial weeds in paths around raised beds

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Hi.
This seems like a silly question but I will ask it anyway.
I’ve laid out raised beds on my new allotment and am going to lay cardboard down on the paths for the time being, and cover with bark chips when funds allow.
This seems like a silly question but I will ask it anyway.
I’ve laid out raised beds on my new allotment and am going to lay cardboard down on the paths for the time being, and cover with bark chips when funds allow.
The whole plot was covered with cardboard over winter which did a good job of stopping many weeds. But I’ve had to spend a long time removing perennial roots from the bed areas.
Do I need to dig over the paths and remove the weeds here too? Or can I just pop the cardboard down and it will eventually kill them? I don’t know how far the roots could spread and go back into the beds.
There are dandelions and creeping buttercup mostly with some bindweed and the odd bits of couch grass.
Thank you in advance. :-)
Thank you in advance. :-)
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I don't have raised beds as such, so my paths are quite narrow. I shudder at the thought of having to extract couch or creeping buttercup from woodchip, let alone bindweed ... and it doesn't hoe nicely...
So in the winter picture you can see the paths when I'd just laid freshly chipped Christmas trees, so it was quite green still. The other picture is taken in summer. You can see the paths are a fairly flexible kind of idea.
Your plot looks great sapindus!
I have plenty of cardboard and bricks to hold it in place until I get bark chips. It is only temporary just to stop me walking on mud and look a bit tidier.
In our previous garden the people we had bought it from had put weed barrier fabric down and covered it with small stone. Nice enough but a magnet for the neighbourhood cats who thought it was a lovely big litter tray. And as the lawn was on a bit of a slope we were constantly having to rake the stones back up the slope.
When we decided to relay the area with turf I discovered that bind weed had set up a huge network of roots (or whatever) under the barrier fabric so that it could pop up in all the flower beds. Once I got rid of that network I did much better at keeping it all under control.
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