Weed Wacking Plants

 Photo credit courtesy of Rob Shenk

In gardening, Like in anything else, you learn something new every day, whether you want to or not.

Like everyone else, I have my stubborn weeds that infest certain beds, and try what I can, I just cant get rid of them. I tried and loved the boiling water method that I  wrote about some time ago, but you can only really to that on paths, because you don’t want to scorch the plants that you want to keep around.

Elizabeth from Gardening while intoxicated, planted some lilly bulbs in a weed infested bed like this, once she pull as many weeds as she could - for some reason, this is supposed to be the kind of plant that will bully the weeds right back. I suppose it make sense that plants with more aggressive growing patterns would be able to stand up the the weeds and fight them off, though I have never really heard of that before.

Does anyone know anything about good weed fighting plants?