I started my late Winter/ early Spring garden care at home and it made me remember to talk about the number one mistake people do with weed control, letting the weeds bloom and go to seed!

If you keep most weeds under control before they go to seed, you will be on your way to a near weed-free garden. Even weeds like annual bluegrass (or birdseed grass) will start to become less of a problem over time, if you keep them from going to seed. The problem is with the more prolific weeds, if you miss just a few you are back square one. I use pre-emergents like spray on Surflan and heavy mulches to control weeds. I then hand weed anything that comes up. When and where I do a good job, weeds are soon not a problem. I have to admit that I have the same problem lots of our customers have; I quit weeding when I have them almost under control.

To reduce the amount of work I strongly recommend heavy mulching with Humus or Gold Rush and using a pre-emergent like Surflan.

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