| Keeping your landscape plantings, flower beds, and | | | | parent plants and the process continues and the |
| nursery crops free of weeds is a battle, but if you | | | | weeds thrive. Weeds that tend to reproduce from |
| approach it with a strategic plan, you will prevail. In | | | | the root are usually more difficult to control.Weed |
| order to develop a plan, you first must understand | | | | control facts? Weeds are plants, and they function |
| how weeds work, and what kind of weeds you are | | | | just like the desirable plants in your yard. They need |
| dealing with.Basically weeds grow either from seed, | | | | water, sunlight, and nutrition to survive. Of these |
| or they reproduce from their roots. As the roots | | | | three key survival needs, the easiest one for a |
| grow outward from the parent plant, new plants | | | | gardener to eliminate is sunlight. Through proper |
| sprout up from the lateral roots, creating more | | | | mulching you can eliminate the sunlight. |