Tagged: weed control

Garden Maintenance / Spring / Tales from the Help Desk / Weather / Weeds

 by Patsy McGrady

Tales From the Help Desk: Chickweed

Q:  I usually apply a pre-emergent herbicide in spring to kill chickweed.  Is it OK if I go ahead and apply the pre-emergent now? A. No. The use of a pre-emergent herbicide in winter would be ineffective because the weather is too cold for seeds to germinate. We tend to associate pre-emergents with spring because that is when we apply them to take care of crabgrass and other summer broadleaf weeds. I know for my lawn, applying pre-emergent herbicide is...

Edible Plants / Food Forest / Garden Maintenance / Gardening on the Wild Side: Working in Harmony with Nature / Invasive Plants / Larval Host Plants / Native Plants / Water Wise / Weeds / Wildlife Gardening

 by Elizabeth McCoy

What is a Weed?

A family of rabbits gathers each evening at dusk to nibble their way through the clover and creeping Charlie that populate our front ‘lawn.’  They prefer to nibble plants that we don’t cultivate and won’t miss.  A motley mix of volunteer species, interspersed with a few grasses, grow in the open space between the patio and hedge.  While we call it a ‘bee lawn,’ others might say our lawn is infested with weeds. What is a Weed? Any plant growing...