weed control

Chickweed and Henbit…these are some fowl weeds.

It’s March and you are getting ready to apply your first treatment of the year. As you walk through the lawn, you notice some weeds growing in some very peculiar spots. Along the foundation of the house you might see a weed with a very small leaf with a small white flower. That, my friend, is…

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When is the best time to spray for weeds?

When is the best time to spray for weeds? If I had a nickel for every time I was asked this, I could probably cater some delicious Gate’s Barbecue for few hundred customers! But to answer this question, I am going to explain when to control 4 of the most commonly founds weeds in the…

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Crabgrass! The what, why and how of dealing with it!

What is crabgrass? Why is it so bad? How do I get rid of it? It seems like these 3 questions will get asked every single year from now until the end of time. What is crabgrass? Crabgrass is a summer annual grass, meaning that it germinates when the soil warms up (55 degree soil temperature)…

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How do I control Yellow Nutsedge, the worst weed in the world!

  Are you tired of trying to control yellow Nutsedge in your lawn? It’s kind of like if you shave your face or legs and then the next morning realizing you missed a spot. Having yellow Nutsedge is pretty much your lawns equivalent to missing a spot when shaving. You know what I’m talking about!…

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5 simple rules to remember when spraying for weeds.

Is it time to go spraying for weeds? Have you ever gone to the hardware store and bought a bottle of weed killer, only to find out the hard way that you bought the wrong stuff? I’ve seen it happen when someone took a bottle of “Grass and Weed Killer” to their lawn, only to…

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Weed Killers, the liquid versus granular debate!

Step aside, politicians! The real debate is whether you should use liquid or granular weed killers! When you go to the hardware store or garden center to pick up your bag of “weed and feed”, you’ve probably noticed that there are many liquid weed killers sitting on the shelf. You probably even have a bottle…

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