Garden Tools: Basic Garden Trowel
Karen Meyers The basic garden trowel has a handle with a scoop-shaped blade that is wider near the handle and pointed at the far end. The point may be sharp or not…
Book Review: A Weed By Any Other Name: The Virtues of a Messy Lawn, or Learning to Love the Plants we Don’t Plant
Karen After reading Nancy Gift’s book, A Weed by Any Other Name, you will gain a whole new perspective on weeds. After all, one man’s weed is another man’s prize plant,…
Herbicides Used For Weed Control in Lawns
Sometimes it becomes useful or necessary to consider the use of herbicides for controlling weeds in the lawn. Other weed control methods should be employed first but when they are…
Identification and Control of Five Common Grass and Grass-like Weeds in Lawns
Weedy grasses and grass-look alikes are the most insidious kind of lawn pest because they can invade quickly without you noticing. Just when you think you have a lush lawn…