Most people don’t enjoy pulling weeds. For most of us, it’s a time waster that burdens an already congested list of chores. While there have been a lot of advancements in weed control, few seem as ...

Removing weeds from gardens is an endless and laborious task. Instead of pulling out weeds from every corner of their outdoor spaces, gardeners swear by a range of weed barriers that prevent the ...

Landscape fabric has long been touted as a brilliant way to stop weeds from popping up in areas like flower beds, vegetable boxes, and even gravel pathways. However, many experienced gardeners have ...

Tired of hosing the garden? Not so happy about what those sprinklers are doing to the water bill? There’s another way to keep gardens damp that’s both less work and easy on the water budget – drip ...

Did you hear about Cuba’s struggle to control weeds? It’s being called the Cuban Thistle Crisis. Whether it’s thistles or other annoying weeds, I’ve been controlling the invaders in our landscape and ...

Many homeowners use landscape fabric (also called weed barrier) throughout their landscapes to minimize weeds. Landscape fabric restricts the light required for weed germination (since weeds seeds are ...

When I was a landscape worker, back in the 70’s, I must have put down acres of the 6-mil polyethylene sheeting that was specified for weed control in landscape plans. It was a standard practice at the ...

Q: I just finished digging new garden beds around my house and was wondering if weed control fabric has any benefit in flower beds? Also, I’m not sure what all I want to plant… would I be best to ...