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Weeds - Controlling Weeds in the Lawn & Garden

If there’s a bare spot in your garden, a weed seed will find it. Weeds aren’t bad plants, they’re just plants growing where you don’t want them to. Some weeds are easily removed by hand and others are persistent about growing back and become more and more difficult to eradicate the longer they are left to establish themselves and spread. To conquer weeds, try some of these weed control tips.
Herbicides - Controlling Weeds and Unwanted Plants with a Pesticide
A herbicide is a product used to kill unwanted plants. Herbicides can be broad spectrum, selective or even pre-emergent. There are also organic herbicides and synthetic herbicides.
Controlling Weeds - Annual versus Perennial Weeds
If there’s a bare spot in your garden, a weed seed will find it. Some weeds are easily removed by hand and others are persistent about growing back and become more and more difficult to eradicate the longer they are left to establish themselves and spread. Knowing whether a weed is an annual and will die this season or a perennial weed that will just keep growing, will help you control the weeds in your garden.
Preventing Weeds
A better idea than pulling weeds is to keep them out of your garden in the first place. You can't stop every bird from dropping a weed seed here and there, but there are several things you can do to limit the amount of weeds brought into your garden and prevent weeds from getting out of control.
Mulching to Control Weeds in the Garden
Stopping weeds before they grow is the best way to control weeds in the garden.
Weeds in the Garden
How do so many weeds find their way into your garden? If there's a bare spot in your garden, a weed seed will find it. Weeds aren't bad plants, they're just plants growing where you don't want them to. Some weeds are easily removed by hand and others are persistent about growing back and become more and more difficult to eradicate the longer they are left to establish themselves and spread. T…
Weeding Tools
What's the best way to get rid of weeds? That depends on what weeds you have and how many of them there are. But there is a way.

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