Lazy Gardening

All It Takes Is Patience, Herbicide (optional) and a Shovel Black locust, ( Robinia pseudoacacia ),  Tree of Heaven , (Ailanthus altissim...

Herbicides are chemicals used to control unwanted plants. All conventional or "organic" herbicides work by somehow interfering w...

This is another " Oops, should have thought a bit longer " post. I realized too late that there was a slower but less work way to ...

I will be publishing a series of posts on herbicides for weed control, explaining in a non-technical manner how to select the correct one fo...

Flame Throwers and Weed Burners Weed burners or flamers are blowtorches adapted to deliver flames to ground level.  They do not have to bu...

There is something deeply satisfying about grabbing a fistful of weeds and yanking them out, roots and all. However, you have to make sure...

It's not the weeds you see that are the problem, it's the ones hiding in the dirt, waiting to grow. Weeds in Rye By Agronom (O...

In its proper place, Bermuda grass ( Cynodon dactylon ) makes a good lawn or good pasture. Unfortunately it doesn't stay in its proper p...

Through a chain of gardening blogs, I found Garden Rant's rant about the inability of Scotts Chemicals to comprehend that diversity in ...

This is the post where I point out my errors, hoping you won't commit the same ones. The weather, and some lack of foresight on my part,...

The main claim that attracted me to the UC Verde strain of Buffalo grass was the claim that it would require less water than Bermuda Grass a...

Wow, give buffalo grass a week or two of 105°F+ (over 40°C for you metric people) with Arizona monsoon humidity and it turns into turf! Real...

The buffalo grass responded to the first mowing by sending out a lot of side growth and getting thicker, so I mowed it again! Weaning it off...

This week I have some comparison photos. I took these by standing at the edge of the patio, with the camera pointed straight down. March 24,...

It's Memorial Day. I'm sitting in the shade with a beer! We had several cool, cloudy days with light rain, which is unusual for May,...

Not using a pre-emergent to prevent weed growth in a new lawn area is a major mistake, especially in Phoenix. The abundant water has encoura...

Good grief! I had forgotten how much of a pest spotted spurge ( Euphorbia maculata ) can be in a well-watered area of exposed dirt. What I ...

The weeds are finally starting to discolor and shrivel, and I spent half an hour tracking down and spot-spraying glyphosate on any Bermuda g...

If you are replacing a Bermuda grass lawn with buffalo grass, you will have to kill any Bermuda that survived the pre-planting attempts to k...

This week I was watching the weeds. The constant moisture that it takes to get the grass to spread is encouraging a huge crop of weeds. I id...