With their sturdy roots and rapid growth, weeds create a lot of extra work for gardeners and they also compete with desirable plants for soil space, water, and nutrients. Even worse, empty garden soil ...

Over the years I have had many people ask about their thin lawns, including a friend from the pool just recently. I can relate to this issue well on many levels. Seems that as I’m getting older, the ...

Autumn is the start of a less busy time in the garden, but there is always something to be doing outside, and weeding is one ...

Q: I already have weeds growing in my vegetable garden and flower beds. I am not fond of working at weed control, and I don’t want them to take over either. What is the easiest way to prevent weeds ...

With the arrival of cool fall weather, the need for certain lawn and garden maintenance tasks slows down and eventually comes to an end when the ground freezes. But the cool weather and shorter days ...

In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency removed MSMA from the list of herbicides the turfgrass industry uses to control weeds. Since the chemical ingredients convert to a toxic form of arsenic, ...

We went through a long, cold winter. The warm, sunny days of spring are starting to roll in. When we get outside to work in the yard, we are going to want to focus our time on the yard and garden ...

The weed seed bank is the reserve of viable weed seeds present on the soil surface and scattered throughout the soil profile. It consists of both new weed seeds recently shed, and older seeds that ...

I noticed my pest control operator was by to spray something on my lawn for weed control. Nothing is growing out there, so I feel like I just wasted my money. Weed control can seem like it's a ...

Nineteen granular herbicides were applied at two rates to garden chrysanthemums (Chrysanthemum morifolium Ram.) in plantings at St. Paul and Morris, Minnesota. The soil at St. Paul was classified as ...

In Louisiana, effective weed control requires mulching, barriers, herbicides and a lot of year round labor. If you neglect your garden for too long, it may come to resemble this 2011 photograph of an ...