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1). Weed Control - How to Prevent Weeds from Taking Control of Your Yard
If bees are public enemy #1 for most farmers, lawn owners and gardeners tend to view weeds with very much the same perception. Weeds are non-native plants that are unwanted in a certain place and time and can be very much harmful to your plants and even public amenity.
It’s imperative that you prevent weeds from taking control of your yard lest you wish to see your plants die one by one before the year’s end.
Article tags: weed, weeding, weed control, chickweed, dandelion, crabgrass
2). Weed Control Facts: Winning the Battle of the Weeds
Keeping your landscape plantings, flower beds, and nursery crops free of weeds is a battle, but if you approach it with a strategic plan, you will prevail. In order to develop a plan, you first must understand how weeds work, and what kind of weeds you are dealing with.
Basically weeds grow either from seed, or they reproduce from their roots. As the roots grow outward from the parent plant, new plants sprout up from the lateral roots, creating more parent plants and the process continues and the weeds thrive.
Article tags: weeds, kill weeds, weed control
3). How to Make a Weed Dabber
The tool that I am going to tell you about is for using herbicides such as RoundUp. The biggest mistakes that people make when using non-selective herbicides like RoundUp is overspray getting the herbicide on plants that they did not intend to spray, and over applying the product. If you spray to the point of run off, you are applying way too much.
The weed dabber is a tool used for spot treating weeds without getting the herbicide on other plants.
Article tags: weed control, weeds, weed killer, herbicide
4). Pond Weed Clean-Up, A Neighborhood Effort
After answering several inquiries regarding our success at eradicating weeds from Sluice Pond and raising funds to establish weed control, I thought an article describing a successful process would help others in Massachusetts and New England.
A brief history-Sluice Pond is a 50+ acre body of water with approximately 165 homes that abut the pond. Sluice Pond, fed by the Cedar Brook and natural springs, is one of five ponds located 10 miles Northeast of Boston that meander in a “Strawberry Necklace” through Lynn, MA to the Atlantic.
Article tags: sluice pond, new england, massachusetts, fishing, environment, boating, swimming, wildlife, eradicating weeds, weed control, weed treatment, public funding, recreational resources, public access, imminent domain
5). Lawn Care Maintenance For Mere Mortals
Though everyone likes to see their lawn in an enviable condition few are aware of the basics of lawn preparation and maintenance. Planting the seeds, spraying for the weeds, and watering your lawn, all look simple but proper maintenance of a good lawn is no simple task. To some, lawn care is serious business - reading every bit of the literature that they come across and going for a serious lawn building exercise that may make this interesting past time a rudimentary daily routine.
Article tags: lawn care, lawn mowers, weed control
6). Good Weed Control Pesticides
Lawn weeds may be divided into two classes based on the way they emerge from the seed. Most monocot weeds found in turf grass are from the family germinate and are termed as weedy grasses.
Article tags: landscaping, landscape, garden, weed control, backyard