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Sunday, November 23, 2014
Friday, August 8, 2014
Best Ways To Remove Weeds From your Lawn
Weed-free lawns are the stuff of dreams and championship golf courses. In fact, when you consider the tenacity of weeds, it's a wonder any of us win the pitched battles we wage with these pesky invaders. Just one dandelion plant makes up to 15,000 seeds, each of which can survive six years in the soil—creating 15,000 more seeds when it sprouts and matures.
Synthetic herbicides are the usual response to chronic weed problems. But used unwisely, these chemical weed killers can be dangerous to people, pets and turf. And unless you get at the underlying problems that weaken lawns and favor weeds, you might have to apply herbicides frequently.
The best way to control dandelions and other weeds in your yard is to grow a thick, vigorous lawn. Dense grass crowds out weeds and blocks the sunlight their seeds need to germinate. If only a few weeds dot your lawn, changing your maintenance tactics might be all it takes to get rid of them. And if your efforts at hand-to-hand combat haven't worked, take heart. There really is a way to pull out even stubborn dandelions so they don't come back.
PLAN YOUR APPROACH
No single herbicide, weeding technique or lawn care tactic works against all weeds. How you attack the weeds in your lawn depends on which you have. Lawn weeds fall under three broad categories: unwanted grasses; grasslike plants called sedges; and broadleaf plants. Most are annuals or perennials. Annuals complete their life cycle in one season and reproduce from seeds. Perennials live several years and spread underground as well as by seed, making them harder to control.
The following guide shows examples of the different types of weeds that plague lawns throughout the country. If you're still stumped about whether yellow nutsedge or yellow woodsorrel has invaded your turf, call the extension service in your area for help from experts.
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Sunday, January 26, 2014
Spring Is The Best Time To Plant Garden Plants
When it comes time to preparing your garden, planting to make sure your ferns, perennials, and annuals bloom successfully. The biggest benefit to planting during the spring is you have already avoided the coldest part of the year, and you still have months before the extreme heat bears down on your plants. Spring planting will ensure that by the time the summer rolls around, the roots will have taken and the plants will be able to survive through to the fall. This means that next year the spring blooming.
Even though the spring is the most ideal time to plant your garden, that can also depend greatly on the types of plants you have. Annuals, ferns, and wildflowers do best when planted in the spring because their seedlings are very fragile and do not do well in extreme heat when that small. When ground covers are planted early spring, you give the root system the best opportunity to grow and gather important nutrients that the plants will need to get through the extreme heat of summer. Spring planting should always be done after the last freeze, and contacting your nursery to ensure those dates have passed will make sure your spring blooming next season will be successful.
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Ground covers planted in the spring that have the best chance of survival are your perennials, petunias, marigolds, begonias, and vinca. When you successfully plant annuals the year earlier, you can replant the bulbs the following year to make the ground covering more diverse. It can help you to expand your garden so that it reaches areas of the yard not yet worked. Spring planting should always be monitored closely because if that unexpected freeze where to hit your area and you didn't have time to protect those seedlings, you could lose the entire garden in a single night.
To make sure your spring blooming is bountiful, get those seedlings in the ground as soon as the ground thaws and water them frequently, right up to the summer. Within those three months the ground covers will have a firm hold in the ground and will thrive through the rest of the year.
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