The improved consistency and looseness of your soil will make weeds that much easier to remove and greatly facilitate the optimal growth of your plants. There are many great sources if information on composting. Simple, good soil texture is the single biggest step in gardening ease and enjoyment. If your soil structure is good, weeds can't outstrip your veggie plants. The benefits of good soil composition are truly worth cultivating.
Good soil holds moisture and nutrients.
It gives support for proper root growth and, most importantly, eases the backbreaking labor of weeding. Most weeds, like most vegetables, have certain requirements for optimal growth. Fortunately for us, those conditions can be mutually exclusive. By looking at the weeds that happen to be growing, you can get a rough gage of what may be wrong with your soil. If we can improve the nitrogen content and raise the pH to a proper level we can limit the problem with that particular weed.