Weeds, those pests in your fields, become a valuable tool for testing your soil. Most fields have weeds. They are there day and night, rain or shine, experiencing the forces that shape plant growth.

Every gardener knows that weeds are just plants in the wrong place. Webster’s dictionary defines a weed as “a plant that is not valued where it is growing and is usually of vigorous growth; especially ...

I admit it, I am terrible at weeding. With the winter rains, my yard turns into a lush garden of plants I never planted. Ralph Waldo Emerson described weeds as “a plant whose virtues have not yet been ...

As University of California professor and agricultural economist Doug Larson says, “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except learning how to grow in rows.” To gardeners, a weed ...

“Weeds of California and Other Western States” is a prize-winning reference book co-written by Joseph DiTomaso and published by the University of California in 2007. The California Invasive Plant ...

Tillage is often seen as the organic alternative to chemical weed control. Tillage can be very effective at reducing weed populations, but can it be embraced as the solution to the weed problem? What ...

There are right ways and wrong ways and right times and wrong times to wage war against weeds. Knowing a weed’s strengths and weaknesses and its correct identity helps you become the victor, not the ...