Can I be lazy?

[Curlykale]

I am in the process of putting my raised beds to bed for the winter, pulling and digging the weeds out then covering the beds with cardboard and manure.

I have cut my pea and bean plants down and left the roots in the ground, but if I get rid of the weeds and grass I will also remove the roots of the peas and beans. Can I be lazy and just cover the weeds with cardboard and manure or should the beds be weed free first?

[Two_Sheds]

If you cut off their light, with a mulch, then the weeds will die

[Snadger]

If these are cultivated beds I would still be tempted to pull out the perennial weeds. Sometimes stuff like couch grass can thrive under cardboard over the winter!

[Glutton4...]

Yup, that's what I do now. Been caught out before, thinking they wouldn't grow over the winter - D'oh! I pull out any perennials, then cover and mulch over the rest. By spring the soil should be great!