Hairy bittercress is a fast-spreading, cool-season weed that can quickly overtake your lawn if you don’t take the right precautions. Fortunately, with the right maintenance and preventative measures, ...

I just read an article that likens hairy bittercress (HB) to the “cranky old man up the street.” If you are familiar with hairy bittercress, you will most likely agree. If you are just now learning ...

This week all the mystery plants were annual winter weeds. The mild, cool weather we had in the fall and early winter gave a quick startup to this annual problem. Weeds are rampant, and the recent ...

Anyone walking through the garden in April will now see it everywhere: small green plants in beds, pots, and cracks in the pavement. What was easy to overlook a few weeks ago has now spread ...

We’re swamped with a new weed this year. It started with round rosettes of leaves with white flowers on stems, but it is everywhere in beds and lawn. Now the flower stems have gotten taller and ...

The first green that pushes through cold soil rarely belongs to roses or tomatoes. It belongs to weeds that wake up before almost anything else, staking their claim while frost still bites the air.

Hairy bittercress, get off my lawn! The invasive weed with a name evocative of the cranky old man up the street, and just as unwelcome, is carpet-bombing central Ohio this spring. Hairy bittercress, a ...

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WEEDS can grow right through the year with different varieties of these wild plants cropping up as the seasons come and go. With a new season beginning, what are the winter weeds you should look out ...

Bittercress is often introduced unwittingly into British gardens and can be very hard to eliminate. There are different types of bittercress: hairy bittercress, an annual species, and wavy bittercress ...

The holiday season has begun and garden/yard work has been completed. It is time to relax, have a hot drink by the fireplace and wait for the arrival of the gardening catalogs. However, as you relax, ...