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 ...

Now’s the time to get busy if you’re planning to grow some of your own plants inside from seed. Indoor seed-starting is on the upswing as a way to counteract the higher prices of mature plants. “It’s ...

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, ...

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DEAR BARBARA: I didn’t recognize your visitor, so I reached out to Andy Senesac, weed science specialist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, based in Riverhead. Senesac said it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever had the experience of casually walking into a patch of weeds or hand pulling a small weed and setting off an explosion of seeds reminiscent of the “snap crackle and pop” of a popular ...