Re: Snow; Weeds

Janet N. Yang wrote:
> 
>     Oops -- sorry; that last E-mail (the blank one) was supposed to be
> saved as a template, not sent to the list.
>     The snow is sticking. To think that yesterday it was warm (high 60s)
> and we were outside working on the garden.
>     There are more weeds than last year, and that's saying a lot!. I
> decided to remove shallow-rooted weeds by hand but spray the tap-rooted
> weeds with herbicide. At the store we went over the Ortho picture chart,
> pointing out the weeds we recognized from our lawn and garden:
> "Chickweed. We've got that." "Quack grass; got that." "Got that." "Got
> that." "And that." "Got LOTS of that." "Got that." etc. We determined
> that our garden has virtually every weed known to science.
>     I have also decided that there is no herbicide that works on onion
> grass or other weeds that have bulbs to store energy. And if you simply
> pull the onion grass out of the lawn, lots of little bulblets fall off
> and stay behind in the soil. I think the only thing that works is to dig
> up the entire clump and dispose of it, soil and all.
> 
> Janet Yang
> Riverside, Connecticut, USA
> Zone 6, on the coast
> nothing but clay, clay, and more clay

 I see! So that is why the onion just keeps sitting there after I
sprayed it for the tenth time! You learn something new everyday.
 I too have a lot of weeds. Last year we used weed and feed fertilizer,
just a store brand. I didn't really think it would work. We had a
virtual garden of ragweed growing and hardly no grass next to a vacant
lot. It really worked and the grass got a dose of fertilizer at the same
time. I suppose Scott's might even work better, that is what my son
recommended to me.
 Thanks for the heads up on the onion problem.
 Windy


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