Weed control

I started some winter (?) spring (?) clean up at home and it made me remember the number one mistake people do with weed control.

Letting the weeds bloom and go to seed!

If you keep most weeds under control before they seed you have a diminishing problem as the existing seeds germinate. Even weeds like annual bluegrass (or birdseed grass) will start to become less of a problem over time. If you nkeep them from seeding. The problem is with prolific weeds is if you miss just a few you are back starting over.

I use pre-emergents like spray on surflan and heavy mulches to control weeds. I then hand weed anything that comes up. When and where I do a good job, weeds are soon not a problem. I have to admit that I have the same problem lots of our customers have; I quit weeding when I have them almost under control.

To reduce the amount of work I strongly recommend heavy mulching with Humus or Gold Rush and using a pre-emergent like Surflan.