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Let’s face it, weeds are a gardener’s worst enemy. No matter how many you till or pull out by hands, there are countless more waiting to rear their ugly heads. Fighting this never-ending battle is even more frustrating if you have routinely maintained the garden by watering, fertilizing and adding soil amendments.
What else can you do? Learn to identify the type of weeds that are making their home in your garden. Dandelions, quackgrass and ragweed are the most common, but hundreds of other less familiar weeds plague gardeners as well. Spotting the interlopers is easy. It’s a sure bet that anything you didn’t plant yourself is a weed.
Which Weed?
Weeds fall into three general categories: annuals, perennials and biennials. More than 80 percent of garden weeds are annuals, plants that live and die in a single season and reproduce only by seed. They produce a huge number of seeds, sometimes hundreds of thousands, thereby ensuring at least a handful will find a favorable spot oh your lawn or in your garden beds for germination and growth. Hand pulling annual
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