Weeding

[vegswap]

The weeds around my raspberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries and rhubarb have got completely out of hand. Short of a flame thrower has anyone got any ideas? I don't really want to use nasty poisonous chemicals but I'm totally daunted by the amount of back breaking weeding to be done. Help

[richard p]

strim them off then mulch with several inches of lawn mowings

[Primrose]

Or you could cover the surrounding area with black membrane fibre until the current weeds have died off, when it will be easier to dig over and extract the roots.