weeds in your lawn
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- Subject: weeds in your lawn
- From: s*@webtv.net (sally knauss)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:32:15 -0600 (CST)
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Hi all,
A good book on weeds is The Gardener's Weed Book by Barbara
Pleasant. Last year, I gave a program on weeds to several groups in my
area. I'm no expert, but I thought I'd pass this on anyway.
The 8 ways to get rid of weeds are:
1. Herbicides - corn glunten meal
2. Solerize
3. Deadheading
4. Choke them out - cover crops or dinse planting
5. Hoe
6. Pull
7. Dig
8. Mulch
Use weeds as soil indicators. Look for more than one weed type in large
populations that like the same conditions, and consider their health.
The healthier the weeds, the better.
(this is good to know if you plan on buying a new house or lot)
Soggy soil- Dock, Horsetail, Foxtail, Willow, Ox-eye Daisey, Goldenrod,
Poison Hemlock, Rushes, Sedges and Joe-pye Weed.
Compacted soil - Chicory and Bindweed.
Hard Crust - Quack Grass and Mustard.
Acidic soil - Dandelions, Sorrel, Mullein, Stinging Nettle and Wild
Pansy.
Alkaline soil - Peppergrass, Salad Burnet, Scarlet Pimpernel, Campion,
Stinkweed and Nodding Thistle.
Poor soil - Daiseys, Wild Carrot, Mugwort, Common Mullein, Wild Parsnip,
Wild Radish and Biennial Wormwood.
Rich soil - Chickweed, Henbit and Lambs Quarters.
High in Nitrogen - Red Root Pigweed.
High in Potassium - Knapweed and Red Clover.
High in Phosphorus - Purslan and Mustard
Dont'worry about the clover in the lawn, it's fixing the nitrogen in
your soil and actually doing you a favor.
Sally
zone 6, west KY
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