Chickweed is a fast-spreading annual weed with tiny white flowers that can produce thousands of seeds. Keeping your lawn healthy and dense is the best natural defense against chickweed. Along with ...

Q: My lawn is besieged with clumps of chickweed. I put down corn gluten early March. Where did this all come from? Does it propagate from seed or what? It has woven its way through the grass and is ...

Q: What is wrong with our young bur oak’s leaves? They’re horribly distorted. A: I have not encountered this before. I would expect it to be either the damage of a gall-forming insect or the effects ...

Q: I have an ongoing issue with common chickweed in my backyard – and this year it's spread from my flower beds to the vegetable patch nearby. What can I do to get rid of it for good? A: Chickweed ...

If homeowners hoping for a lush green lawn are now starting to see little purple or white flowers in their yard, there’s bad news: there’s not a whole lot you can do about it. K-State Research and ...

Q: We've got a widespread weed problem in our vegetable gardens. We're blanketed with wall to wall chickweed. Do you have any suggestions as to how to get rid of this aggressive weed? We didn't till ...

Most gardeners are so absorbed in planting at the start of the season that they ignore early weeding. Weeds are just not on the list. They should be if you want to save yourself a lot of work later on ...

This week all the mystery plants were annual winter weeds. The mild, cool weather we had in the fall and early winter gave a quick startup to this annual problem. Weeds are rampant, and the recent ...