“The difference between a weed and a flower is a judgement,” as goes the famous saying by self-help guru Wayne Dyer. However, as an avid gardener, you should well know the flaws in this statement. Weeds typically aren’t bred for beauty the way most sought-after flora is; weeds have evolved to grow aggressively, killing or severely weakening the plants around them by stealing water, sunshine and other nutrients.
While some weeds can start out quite pretty, most quickly become eyesores as they take over an entire yard and decimate the plants you wanted to grow.
In fact, some weeds are judged by essentially everyone as weeds because of how they look and behave. If you want to save the appearance and health of your lawn and garden, here are a few of the worst weeds to watch out for – and what to do if you spot them.
Yellow Nutsedge
A perennial, grass-like weed, yellow nutsedge will blend into your lawn until it is too late to get rid of it easily. This weed’s tell is it’s super-fast growth: If you mow and see yellow grass sprouting above the rest of your lawn, you’ve been invaded. The key to getting rid of it is spraying herbicide early in the summer and growing your lawn at the proper height, which will keep it thick and crowd out any weed growth.
Ground Ivy
Also called creeping Charlie, cat’s foot, field balm and dollar weed, this garden menace rapidly spreads to create a dense mat that kills everything else. Most gardeners agree that the only way to beat back ground ivy is through hand-weeding, year after year. Ideally, you should pull the weed out before the seeds have developed; then, you should try to keep your garden beds a bit drier. If you let ground ivy get going, you should hire professional weed control services to fight this fight.
Crab Grass
Decided by some to be the number-one worst weed (largely because of its hardiness, which allows it o grow in every U.S. state), crab grass grows everywhere in your yard, but it is a particular blight on your veggie garden. The key to crab grass’s success is its rapid sprouting after summer heat has set in. If you know how to spot crab grass and successfully remove the main crown and any auxiliary nodes, you might be able to avoid…
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