Stopping weeds

Hi Everyone
This is my first post so here we go.
I have cleared the edge's of my garden along the fence lines,it was full of nettles,brambles,climbing weeds someone told me it was"MILE A MINUTE",i have dug it all over and got out as many of the weed roots as i can,now what i need to know is i want to put sleepers along the edge,if i put some black fabric base down and fill it in with bark chippings will it stop the weeds growing back through again or can someone tell me another way,but i want to keep the garden simple to get me started and used to gardening.

[ May 10, 2005, 09:31 AM: Message edited by: kenmac ]