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Garden Weeds
The term 'garden weeds' generally refers to whatever plants are not wanted in the garden. Specifically, it tends to include aggressive plants that invade and take over the garden, or plants whose benefits are unknown. Contributors typically raise questions about a particular weed's specific identity and characteristics, natural range, environmental impact, and effective control.
438 Questions
What weed killer to use around the base of a hedge?
Roundup can be used if you are careful when applying it. Do not get any on the leaves of the hedge. Since you're weed problem is at the base of the hedge this product may work. Roundup is a systemic herbicide; that is, the poison is carried through the plants system fist by entering the leaf and then destroying the plants roots.
What is the best organic weed killer for clover?
Try alfalfa seeds.
Dig it up completely and replace the soil. There are not too many grasses that will displace clover. If the grass is bare around a yard that has lots of trees, you might consider keeping the clover--at least it is green!
What are the characteristics of kudzu?
It looks just like any ground ivy ... except it grows upwards to cover everything:
trees, telephone poles, structures, bushes.
And it kills any plant it covers, so you get dead branches under the ivy.
Yes, weeds can grow on rocks. Weeds may be defined as those plants whose benefit to humans is forgotten or unknown. They tend to be recognized by their ability to grow well where cultivated and ornamental plants may do poorly. But in the specific case of rocks, there are native and 'alpine' plants that handle rocky environments just as well as weeds do.
Why can you spray an herbicide in your lawn and only kill the weeds?
That it is a target weed-killer describes why herbicide can be sprayed in a lawn and only kill the weeds. Herbicides have active and inert ingredients, with some of the former controlling specific weeds and nothing else. Active ingredients function effectively when they leave minimal or no impacts, excluding their targets, on the environment and its animal, people and plant occupants.
No. Soap is often an ingredient in organic insecticides. It is also an ingredient in many herbicides, but, I believe, only as a "sticky" agent to help the herbicide stick to the foliage. == ==
No, the milkweed plant is not a monocot. The plant in question (Asclepias) instead numbers among the world's dicot. It produces two seed leaves, not one, and therefore receives the dicotyledon, not the monocotyledon, classification.
How many different types of garden weeds are there?
The number of different types of garden weeds only can be answered most accurately on a case-by-case basis. The number depends upon the definition being used, with the description ranging from a plant whose value is irrelevant, lost, misunderstood or unknown to any plant that is where the gardener does not want it to be or that jeopardizes environmental and human well-being. It therefore may range from only those that harm people, pets, structures and wildlife to thousands of native and non-native plants that seem not to hesitate about taking over space without any sign of sharing, as mentioned by Richard Dickinson and France Royer in their Weeds of North America from 2014.
What is the significance of the herbicide resistant weed?
The biggest disadvantage is the potential for creating herbicide-resistant weeds. This is happening right now in the US. Some parts of the country, particularly in the south, have now identified at least 15 separate weed species which are resistant to the herbicide glyphosate (one brand name is Roundup).
Why should weeds be removed from the field?
That they otherwise will compete most effectively for moisture, nutrients and space is the reason why it is essential to remove weeds from cultivated fields.
Specifically, a weed generally can be considered as any plant that is not where the cultivator wants it to be or whose benefit is forgotten or unknown. Either way, it is known for aggressive invasiveness and not known for sharing. It occupies space which is intended for something else to grow or not. Prolific, shallow, thin roots result in a weed having first bids on access to the underground resources which ensure proper growth of cultivated crops and plants.
How often will you have to use salt to kill weeds?
Some gardeners prefer 1.5 cups salt to 3 cups water. Others prefer 1 cup salt to 2 cups water.
Salt kills weeds, and everything else in the area. In fact, the ancient Romans routinely salted the lands of their conquered enemies. Specifically, they so heavily salted the ground around Carthage that the area is still desert.
Such long lasting devastation won't happen with the above mixes. But the salt isn't really necessary. Boiling water, on its own, kills weeds.
How do you rid yards of prickly burrs?
Grass burs are tough and hard to kill. Herbicides like round up will kill them but not always. The best way is to get a spade or shovel and dig them up. Make sure you get all the roots or they will come back
Multiple methods of reproduction, proximity to resources and tolerances of extreme air, soil and weather extremes are reasons why weeds survive. Weeds generally can be counted upon to reproduce by such means as prolific seeding and quick rooting of rhizomes, root and stem fragments and stolons. They also tend to have fibrous, near-surface roots that grab light, moisture and nutrients and to have high tolerances of drought, floods, freezes, heat and pollution.
What do farmers use to kill weeds?
They can use a selection of herbicides that suppress the weeds. Herbicides are a group of pesticides for killing weeds, "burning back" top growth (defoliant), and preventing weeds from germinating.
They can also mechanically remove them by hoeing or cultivation.
What is the best grade of weed?
well first of all you can tell if it is really good weed if it is really dank and when you hit it it hits hard with like a ocean wave. but the best weed ever is tropical explotion
A weed is a plant in the wrong place so there are no wrong type of weeds.
Weeds suck-up a lot of water. So your plants won't get as much water as they need. In the end they'll die The main reasion is that weeds rob the other plants of nutrients that they need to thrive. i.e. (oxygen, phosphorus, potassium) and water. The root sytems of some weeds are very invasive and take over an area quickly. They can be difficult and expensive to get rid of them. Secondly, from an aesthetic viewpoint the weeds begin to crowd out the nice plants that cost you money to place in the garden and it looks unkempt. A good way to prevent weeds is to mulch the planting areas with a coverning of bark mulch (shredded redwood or cedar, small bark, or chips) about 2" thick. Replace as needed.
What does dead crabgrass look like?
Brown and flat is the look of dead crabgrass. The Gramineae family member in question merges horizontal and vertical beauty through culms (stems) which lie flat or up to heights as tall as 1.5 feet (45.72 centimeters). The non-broadleaf weed in question will lose that three-dimensional look, as well as the landscape interest of blue-purple leaves and July to September-blooming purple florets, in death.
Yes, in fact, in early China and Japan, it was used as a main source of starch, until the discovery of the Sweet Potatoe. Today, it is sometimes used as a treatment for chest pains and high blood pressure.
The Vulture bees are a small group of three that are closely related to the American stingless bee. These three species of Vulture bees are the only know bees not to relay on plant products as their food source. Instead, these bees feed on rotting meat, hence the name "vulture" bees. This unusual bee behaviour was not discovered until 1982, which is nearly two centuries after these bees were first classified.
I had a first hand experience of it (westland weed and moss killer). Yes it is corrosive if it contains sulpher or phosphorus or urea. I had a problem with weed killer in our home where weedkiller started to seep through its box (probably weed killer is hydroscopic). Within 3 months it had eaten away gas pipe which was next to it and we had a gas leak. Note that gas pipe was copper so it corroded even copper which is usually better corrosion resistant then carbon steel.
Hope it helps.
Asif
It is with aeration, nutrients, and sunlight in clear, roomy water that pondweed can be grown.
Specifically, the term in question generally designates aquatic plants in the families Aponogetonaceae, Characeae, Hydrocharitaceae and Potamogetonaceae. The exact cultivation procedures can vary. But pondweed typically has to have access to:
- Aeration, through association with flowing streams and regular currents;
- Depths of 2 feet (0.61 meters) around the edges, with a gradual sloping downward to 4 feet (1.22 meters);
- Nutrients, through soil- and water-based organic matter;
- Space, for asexual reproduction -- through detached stalks, runners tubers -- and sexual reproduction -- through pollen flotation and seed dispersal;
- Sunlight, through waters whose bottom is visible from the surface.
Oxygenated water keeps food chains -- especially involving bacteria -- from becoming unbalanced. Proper organic content may be achieved by controlled fertilization, whose levels must not cloud water and thereby encourage algal blooms. Sunlight needs to penetrate waters all the way to the bottom in order to ensure proper photosynthesis by the pondweed in question.
How was kudzu introduced to Kentucky?
Kudzu was considered to be a good bankholder against erosion, a good cover crop between plantings, and a good soil builder. For kudzu is a legume, which are the nitrogen fixers of the plant world. Nitrogen fixing bacteria, nematodes and plants turn nitrogen that's present in the soil, but unavailable to plants, into soluble nitrogen. For nitrogen must be soluble, to be taken up as the water and nutrients that roots need to send up to shoots, for photosynthesis. Plants need 16-17 nutrients for growth and survival. And nitrogen is in the top most needed of those nutrients. For these reasons, the Civilian Conservation Corps planted kudzu along highways in the Southern States. Also during the depression of the 1930s, the Soil Conservation Service paid farmers $8.00 for every acre that was planted with the purported aesthetic, environmentally friendly plant. And key newspapers and key nurseries promoted the plant's use.
How do you use bleach to kill weeds?
Yes, bleach is an effective weed-killer. But it must be applied judiciously through the use of an environmentally-friend brand and with limited applications since it also may damage and kill anything else growing in the immediate area.
