For questions about controlling weed growth with minimal effort.
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Is this plant Giant Hogweed?
In getting our spring landscaping underway, we've run into a bush that a family member is sure that this plant (pictured) is Giant Hogweed.
Click photo for full size
British Columbia considers this ...
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How to get rid of Japanese knotweed (hogweed?)
I have Japanese knotweed growing into my garden from an adjoining neighbour's garden.
Does anyone please have any advice of how to get rid of this awful plant?
I'm in the UK.
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How can I control thistle in a lawn?
Our back fence (an iron bar fence) borders a golf course, and between us and the fairway is about 50 feet of "native" landscaping. This mostly means long, native grass (some type of crab grass?).
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1answer
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How to get rid of Smilax aspera
I need to clean and restore an old olive plantation which was not cultivated for around 20 years and is now covered with weeds, bushes and spruce tree. I'm new to olive trees but have clean almost ...
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Does Trimec kill grasses (fescue)
Located in North Carolina. Mostly a fescue lawn. well established, some new sod from last fall, some new grass seed from this spring. Let, I have weeds. Some areas of my lawn are fighting a good ...
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Is it possible to kill a large area of weeds organically/naturally?
We've got a ~4500sq/ft back yard that's probably 90% weeds. Is there an organic/natural way to kill off all the weeds so we can start from scratch?
With kids and dogs and a swimming pool right beside ...
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Effective weed elimination along paved driveway
As a matter of principal we don't spray Glyphosate (Roundup) or other herbicides on our property. I'm well aware of its effectiveness as a non-selective herbicide but choose not to use it for a number ...
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2answers
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How do I control the broadleaf weeds taking over my centipedegrass lawn?
I have a lawn that was neglected for a long time - I've done a fair share of Weed-n-feed for a few months, but the weeds continue to prosper in the lawn. I know the soil is great (rich, moist, black ...
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Can salt be used to control weeds permanently?
I was reading over here that salt can be used to control weeds in paved areas?
Is salt an effective way to kill all (or most) plant types?
Is it permanent?
Will using salt effect ground water (I ...
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Please shed light on argument about weeding
Our landscape is mostly natural: cedar, prickly pear, hedgehog cactus, shrubs, foxglove flowers, random weeds, and grass-like weeds. My dad wanted me to pull all of the grass out and place it in a ...
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1answer
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How do I fix the worst lawn on the street?
I inherited this Picasso last year when my wife and I bought our first home. Now, there is plenty of potential, but first and foremost I want to remove all the vegetation I don't want, which ...
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3answers
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How do I quickly remove crabgrass without too much manual labour?
My backyard is being overtaken with crabgrass again. It started later this year than last. In the early spring, I rented a de-thatcher/powerrake and cleaned up the year of alot of dead material (to ...
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1answer
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How quickly can I kill weeds by covering them?
I want to plant some seeds soon and have a load of creeping charlie in my garden beds. If I throw down a tarp, about how long would it take for the weeds to be completely killed? Would laying down ...
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How can I get rid of mint?
I planted mint in my garden a few years ago and it turned out to be a mistake. I should have grown it in a container.
I've been pulling out mint each year but can't get rid of it, so I dug up the ...
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2answers
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How do I kill mile-a-minute weed?
I have a large area covered in mile-a-minute plants. They have been spreading fast and killing out the other plants. How can I kill them permanently without hurting other plants?
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1answer
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How do I bake weeds out of my landscaping?
I've got a rock area around the back of my house that is getting overrun by weeds. The reason the weeds are able to grow there is because the weed barrier has shifted some so there are gaps between ...
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1answer
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How long before poisons like Round-up become inert?
If I spray some grass with a poison like Round-up or Kills All, how long before that spray is not dangerous to plants?
So for example, if after spraying, I walk through the sprayed area and then onto ...
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1answer
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Nutsedge nightmare. Is there an organic solution that will rid my lawn of ever spreading nutsedge?
I have been battling purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus) and yellow nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus) as long as I've had a lawn. These weeds grow from tubers. The tuber networks are connected by a baby ...
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3answers
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How to get rid of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) once and for all?
I have an allotment in England where I grow vegetables and fruit. One of the biggest problems I am having with it (other than the soil desperately needing fertilising) is the bindweed infestation.
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2answers
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How can I control erosion and weeds on a rock retaining wall?
I live on a sloped lot in Utah (just north of Salt Lake City, USDA zone 7b) with several rock retaining walls (small boulders 3-5' in diameter). After hard rains I've noticed considerable dirt plumes ...
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Tips on lawn maintenance and weed control
I have a lawn that is growing more and more weeds as the days go by. What is the best method of tackling this problem and returning my lawn to its former lush and green self?
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4answers
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How do I identify and kill this weed?
OK, I've got the weed shown here all in my yard, and no one can tell me what it is or how to kill it.
I've been trying to find out what it is for years, and today I thought, "I bet there's a ...
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1answer
293 views
Will herbicides (like RoundUp) prevent stickers from germinating?
I'm fighting a losing battle with these plants (pictured). No idea what they are called, but I always just call them "stickers".
I tried pulling them with the sticker pods intact and disposing of ...
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What did people whack weeds with before weed-whackers?
For a variety of reasons (poor outdoor storage, limited outlets, etc...) I do not want to get a gas or electric weed whacker, so I started to think of other options for maintaining the parts of my ...
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1answer
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What type of weeds are these?
I've tried looking but I can't seem to find the name of these weeds (in Australia):
The leaves don't grow any larger than in the photo. It is vine-type and can spread for metres. Vine-root stuff is ...
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2answers
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How can I control weeds in asparagus
I planted asparagus this year, and I have used a water permeable weed barrier to control weeds. But this does not seem like a good idea going forward, as I don't want to discourage the spread of the ...
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1answer
169 views
How do you remove weeds from a weed mat? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I bake weeds out of my landscaping?
How to stop grass growing through landscape pebbles?
How do you best remove weeds that have infiltrated a weed mat covered ...
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how to remove the weeds and avoid them growing between the bricks
I have noticed that there are weeds growing between the bricks, as shown in the attached pic.
How do i remove them?
Is there anything I can do so that I can avoid them growing in the first place?
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1answer
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Is there any way to get rid of bamboo?
Is there any real way to get rid of bamboo? I have tried digging, every variety of round up, even salting the ground but it just keeps growing. Is there anything I can do (short of calling in an ...
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1answer
277 views
What Pre-Emergent Weed Killers Won't Harm my Blue-Rug/Juniper?
I have some weeds that keep coming back in my blue-rug/junipers. I reasearched it a little and found that pre-emergent weed killers are practical, but I am not sure which ones are safe to use on ...
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3answers
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Soil-less raised garden bed with straw
I used a new soil-less method for my recent raised vegetable bed. This is the method I used: Softened the soil by loosening with a fork. Laid soaked cardboard in the diameter of the bed, overlapping ...
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1answer
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How do I kill couch grass organically prior to sowing a lawn?
The area of yard I intend to sow as lawn is around 150sqm, and has just been levelled by machinery which removed much of the plant material. Most parts of it have just had a shallow layer scraped off ...
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What can I plant in dandelion graves?
As part of my other question, I started uprooting dandelions. How successful, exactly, in removing the root, I'm not sure.
Assuming that I am not always extracting 100% of the root, what can I put in ...
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4answers
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Is a weed whacker able to whack weeds?
I always thought weed whackers were for hard to reach areas that a mower can't get, but now that I think of the name... can a weed whacker be used to kill weeds?
When I say kill I mean get rid of ...
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1answer
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How can I verify the total extraction of dandelion roots?
I've started unearthing those dandelions (why do I bother? What exactly do they do to my lawn). The root is notoriously long and brittle.
How do I know if I got the whole thing out? It always looks ...
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2answers
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Can I kill dandelions and bull thistle with darkness?
Dandelions and bull thistle own my backyard. It's their turf now. (I'm a game developer, not a gardener.) I've tried a couple of things to kill them. I think I've decided to go with some uprooting ...
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1answer
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Will dandelion spray made with iron supplements work?
If I buy over-the-counter iron supplements at a drug store, mix with water and spray on dandelions, will it kill them?
If so, how much iron do I need and is it more cost effective to make this ...
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1answer
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What is this leafy weed, and how do I get rid of it without harming vegetable garden?
Bought a house last winter. It has a good size garden in the back which I wanted to plant up. A few weeks ago I went out and dug out a bunch of the weeds pictured below. I dug as deep as possible to ...
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1answer
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What is the best way to remove grass from my ground cover Sedum?
I have a bed of Improved Golden Sedum that is healthy in every way, but wants to go back to lawn. This is difficult to weed, because the grass has a very dense shallow root system, while the Sedum has ...
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2answers
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“sterilizing” a flower bed
We recently moved into a new house that has a flower bed that is completely infested with weeds. It's basically solid weeds. We spent the day hand-weeding and getting rid of most of what we can see.
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1answer
261 views
What is this furry, prickly leafed plant, found in the UK?
I've just moved into a new house and these weeds are dominating the garden.
Any idea what they are or the best way to control them?
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1answer
336 views
Should I be using pre-emergent or post-emergent herbicide?
The air temperature is in the mid 60s, and already the weeds started to germinate. Is this a good time to spray a pre-emergent herbicide or is it too late? Should I apply a post-emergent herbicide ...
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2answers
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How do I get rid of wild grape vines?
I have what seems to be Wild Grape Vines killing off my hedges. Is there any other recourse besides uprooting them all? Clipping them and spraying stump rot another possibility?
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1answer
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Will over spray from Ortho Weed-B-Gon Max kill my flowers?
I was spraying some Ortho Weed-B-Gon Max on my lawn, and some of the mist/over-spray got in and around my flower bed (on flowers).
Are my flowers doomed, or is there still hope that they will live ...
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1answer
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Are there any common allelopathic plants suitable as a pre-lawn winter cover crop?
Being March in the Southern hemisphere, winter is approaching. I have just had my very-weedy front yard levelled. Most of the weeds have been removed, but I don't want to sow grass until I've given ...
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1answer
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How can I turn my gravel driveway into a green driveway? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What ground cover would be best for my old stone driveway?
Any ideas for what I could either seed directly onto gravel or plant for reasonable quick growth (ground ...
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2answers
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What are the steps to prepare an overgrown, grassy area for gardening?
We have an area that we attempt to use for gardening every year. It makes a nice garden area of about 10 feet wide by 20 feet deep. It will probably end up being the subject of several questions. ...
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1answer
486 views
What is this weed/grass and what to do with it?
I have a weed that looks like grass with a flower/seed/wheat looking thing at the top. What is it and how do I get rid of it in my yard?
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1answer
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Keeping my ground cover planting free of unwanted vines and weeds
Every year I have to wade into a steeply sloped tree lawn beside my driveway that is planted in Myrtle and Pacasandra to remove wild blackberry vines, a very long vined weed (maybe Creeping Charlie - ...
