With winter on the horizon, many homeowners often hone in on lawn care and focus on fertilizers and leaf management before the weather turns. While focusing on grass health, you should also consider ...
As a boy, I remember our St. Augustine grass lawn. I fondly remember winter annual weeds in that lawn. Many of these so-called “weeds” are native wildflowers — and a number of pollinators use these ...
By Felder Rushing Most gardeners are being faced this month, like it or not, with a hard choice regarding winter weeds in the ...
Are biting frosts enough to help you eradicate weeds in the garden, or can those pesky plants survive sub-zero temperatures ...
Winter might seem like a season for dormancy, when frost and cold keep most plants asleep. But for the bravest, most ...
Cool-season and warm-season grasses have different needs, but both require basic care when the weather turns cold. Some lawn grasses remain green through the winter months while others go dormant.
You might think you’re off duty when it comes to lawn care until balmy weather arrives. But not so fast! Even though it’s technically winter on the calendar, weeds still may appear in your lawn—and ...
Here’s a little known fact: The purple-blooming weeds such as henbit and deadnettle that are so easily spotted in the spring are actually growing in your lawn right now. As gardeners, we typically ...
During late February to mid-April, homeowners bring in bags of winter annual weeds from their lawns wanting advice on how to control them. They usually seem disappointed and confused when I tell them ...
Green weeds can be really obvious in brown, dormant lawns. LSU AgCenter weed scientist Ron Strahan says it’s OK to spray lawns now with liquid herbicides to control those winter weeds before they ...
Logic suggests that our warm weather will cause weed seeds to germinate earlier this spring and give existing weeds an advantage. Therefore, it would be best to apply a pre-emergent herbicide sooner ...