Quick Reference Guide to Combat Weeds, Disease and Insects in Your Garden
In order to keep your garden in the best condition possible it is important to
be able to detect and treat any weeds, diseases or insect infestations. The following
tables should serve as a valuable reference for the most common problems.
Weeds:
Type
|
Description
|
Control |
| BUCKTHORN |
Flowers in summer; withers in fall. |
Cut out, hand pull or use 2.4-D. |
CLOVER
|
Considered weed by those who object to white flower
in lawn.
|
Repeated doses of 4-XD, MCP or other chemicals. |
CHICKWEED
|
Spreading broadleaf with small white flower.
|
Resists chemicals in cool weather; repeated treatments
in warm weather. |
CRAB GRASS
|
Worst weed; spreads by seeds; annual; smooth and
hairy types.
|
Potassium cyanide, PMA or PC (follow directions
exactly; PC browns lawn for 2 or 3 weeks). |
DANDELION
|
Broad, ragged leaf; yellow flower.
|
Hand pull and 2,4-D. |
FOXTAIL
|
Annual; over 60 types; clustered seed-head with
green-yellow bristle.
|
Prevent seed production. Collect clippings and burn. |
GOOSE GRASS
|
Annual; flat, 3-fmgered-seed stem arrangement. Appears
in hot weather.
|
Hand cut or use commercial drop of sulphuric acid. |
KNOTWEED
|
Hot-weather weed; wiry stem; little leaf growth.
|
Hoe; hand pull. Resists chemicals but succumbs to
many treatments 2.4-D. |
PLANTAIN
|
Broadleaf; tall seed stalk.
|
2,4-D. |
QUACK GRASS
|
Spreading, coarse growth; ashy-green stalks. |
Smother with paper or tar mulch to starve roots.
Chemicals kill only top growth. |
WILD ONION
|
Deeply imbedded bulb-lets.
|
Put lime in soil. Use chemicals when plants appear
in spring. Try 2.4-D. (Hand pulling won't work.) |
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