Drinking from a firehose

With the amount of work I need to do in mine, it still might. Not that I'll get to it before next week at the soonest. I managed to cut down the pokeberry in the front yard but I didn't do any other weeding up there and I was warned that one of the weeds growing in the bed will produce burrs that are difficult to remove from one's self & clothing. That was weeks ago when I took a photo of its rather pleasant flowers in an effort to get the thing identified. I can't remember what I was told (it wasn't a formal name, more along the lines of "I don't remember, but something in this latin-name family" (and heck if I can remember the latin part either)). And note I haven't mentioned the herb garden or the area out behind the garage. The herb garden is almost entirely weeds -- if the weeds haven't crowded out the chives and ferns I'd stuck there this Spring in an attempt to save them from the even worse spot they were in. I think the best option here is to cut down whatever isn't ferns or chives and, if anything is worth saving, move it elsewhere. Because I came up with what I think is a clever idea -- covering the remains of the herb garden with the sheets of plywood left over from being used as forms for the garage's foundation (the builders left them behind) and smothering whatever's left. If I'm lucky everything underneath will break down and I'll have nice soft good dirt next Spring when we will hopefully have both the time and the money to do something about replacing the raised beds.