Do look into organic gardening and don't get carried away with
chemicals and hard labour which usually brings to nothing, other than
destruction around you and pain in you! I always look into low energy
inputs for high yields - and it works everytime! Weeds indeed.... some
are beautiful and fill in gaps, others need dead heading fast before
they spread, a few are invasive so they need digging out and the rest
is beneficial to insects and nettles bites. As Bill Mollison once said:
"You haven't got an excess of slugs, you've got a duck deficiency"
;O)

Oh I intend to use organic methods - although I'm learning as I go
along - umm starting from a knowledge base of nil! I am just about to
order two compost bins from our local council - one for the house and
one for the allotment - doubles my chances of getting it right I
suppose.