Safe to weedkiller vegetable patch?

Welease

Looking for some advice

We have been doing our own veggies for a couple of years with great success. With the arrival of a new child this year, we haven't had the time to keep it maintained, and as a result it has become overgrown with weeds etc. I have just dug up the last of this years potatoes and wanted to sort out the beds over the coming winter.

So...

Is it safe to put weedkiller down over the winter and begin planting again in Spring? The veg will obviously be eaten by us and the kids so I need to ensure this is 100% safe.

If not, could i cover the areas with tarp, and just let the weeds die off?

Any other solutions? Manually digging them out last years was a royal pain in the backside and the loss of soil attached to the roots dropped the raised beds by a few inches, so I would like to lose as little soil as possible.

Any advice is appreciated.

ttm

Any form of Roundup (or its glyphosate base copies) should be fine for the weeds that still have some top growth and as long as the weeds are still growing it will work, but there is no residual soil acting weedkiller I'd use in this situation.

Covering the ground works fine.

I'm now using some raised beds, paths get sprayed with Roundup leaving just the soil I grow stuff in to keep clean and they can easily be covered in black plastic.

Welease

Many thanks TTM.. Picked up some of that weedkiller today