answer:@tinyfaer: Welcome to the world of sore knees and backs and dirty hands. You can mulch the area after you have planted (with newspaper or plastic covered in dirt, with pine needles, with store-bought bags of mulch), or you can weed on a regular basis. It is imperative that you learn, asap, the difference between a sprouting perennial and a look-alike weed. Do you have any friends or neighbors who can give you some tips/ Grass is easy to ID and should be yanked out wherever you see it. You have enriched the soil and thus made it inviting for any vegetative thing to sink its greedy little roots into. I go out almost every morning in the nice weather with a mug of tea and my knee pads in order to do some weeding. And when I come home from anywhere in the car on a nice day, I stop and pull a few weeds before going into the house. There are no magic tricks, I’m sorry to say. You can also start your seeds in small pots on your window sills so that you have a decent-sized plant to transplant into the garden. Then you label it with a popsicle stick or $$$markers bought at the garden center.