Re: weeds in your lawn

At 12:32 PM 1/26/99 -0600, you wrote:
>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
Hah!  Well, I don't have to get that book.  I have dandelions, quackgrass,
bindweed, Canada thistle, foxtails, dock, lamb's quarters and knotweed
growing cheek by jowl.  And alkaline soil.  Doesn't exactly fit, does it?
Margaret L

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