Anyway, turns out DH knew what he was doing. I spent the entire hour and the quarter imagining he was weeds and I just kept yanking them up.....HARD!. I now have a fully weeded garden (if I include the major effort that he and I did two weekends ago).
I can now have the pleasure of feeding the garden with blood and bone, dynamic lifter and organic compost before I start planting vegies.
The bonus? I noticed that my mulberry tree has heaps of mulberries on it, the apple tree is starting to flower and the cherry tree has HEAPS of flowers on it.
Just need to net it all off before the birds get stuck into my beautiful potential fruit!