Weeds

Taming The Landscape With Herbicides

After chemical methods have controlled plant growth, the matter of maintenance is of prime importance. The margins demand the most attention, for along the borders of a converted field, there

Weeds Or Wild Flowers

Weeds or Wildflowers

When we first attempt to create a wild garden, how impatient we are with the weeds, only to realize later that many of them have their place. It is not

Controlling The Weeds In Your Lawn

Control Weeds

Opinions differ as to what plants are lawn weeds. The golf course superintendent will tolerate nothing but bent grasses in his putting greens, while most homeowners accept any permanent bluegrass,

Ten Weeds Nation Worst Robbers Killers

Weed Killers

The finger was put on the nation’s ten top public enemy weeds today in an appeal for cooperation with enforcement agencies in fighting outlaw weeds and shrubs.  The U. S.

Bush Bindweed

Bindweed

The bush bindweed (Convolvulus cneorum), a morning glory from the Mediterranean, is one of the best-loved small shrubs in Pacific Coast gardens.  It is cherished for its wealth of bloom,

Can Your Hoe Kill Weeds Effectively?

Hoe Killing Weeds

Home gardeners are always interested in the mere mention of chemical weed killers.  Certainly, one would suspect that the millennium had arrived were it possible to spray some chemicals on

Are Weeds Friends or Foes?

Weeds

It is always stimulating to explode beliefs hoary with age. So here goes another. Weeds are not all bad. Many of the ones well known to us are important and

How To Effectively Use Weed Killers

Weed Killers

Many ways have been tried to eradicate poison ivy. Spraying with chemicals appears to be the most satisfactory.  Of the many chemicals tried, ammonium sulfa-mate and 2, 4, and 5

Weeds Are Here To Stay – Deal With It

weeds here to stay

Weed killers used extensively today in an attempt to offset the great agricultural losses caused yearly by weeds. Some writers would almost lead us to believe that weeds are on their