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My husband and I have tried numerous different approaches to controlling weeds in our yard. We spray weed killer, then try to sprinkle grass seed in its place and they just seem to keep coming back. Over the winter our weed problem in the yard has gotten even worse. Are there any tips that someone could give me in how to control the weeds best? I've heard that manually pulling the weeds out could be the best option, as opposed to just killing the tops of them with weed killer. Has anyone tried this method?

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Boanerges

Spiritual or yard weeds - the answer is the same- weed and feed. Poison or pull the weeds and feed the grass. It works best when your surrounding b neighbors do it too. Otherwise it is kind of like chasing ant piles from one yard to the next.

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Pastor Gary

If all else fails, contact the Virginia State University Extension Office in your community. They normally have a horticulturist on staff that is available for free consultations and is knowledgable in the various species common to your area. The Lowes and Home Depot Garden Departments are another possibility, but go during the week and during the day... otherwise you may get stuck with a part-timer on nights and weekends who is less than fully educated in this topic. Soil conditions, insect populations, common weed species, bird migrations (seed transfer), bee hive concentrations (pollenation) and rainfall averages are all important factors in getting the yard to look just right. Talk with someone who knows your area well. Good Luck!!

BCheezy

Pray them away

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Thanks to all who posted advice on this topic!

We ended up going to Home Depot during the day and got some good advice from the guy there. Apparently we have chickweed specifically as a problem. The guy there was helpful and told us that we must enact a 5 or 6 step process of maintaining the yard throughout the year. I think that was our demise during the winter because we hadn't really done anything further to the yard since the spring/summer time. Now we know!

Thanks again!

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These things (weeds) are impossible to control at my house. Whooo! I fought it for like the first four years...now I just rev up the mower and plow right over them.

I tried some weed killer, but it left horrible brown spots in my lawn (or what's trying to become my lawn). Thorns are the worst...I wait for them suckers to dry up, then I rake them together and dump them on the edge of my property to let the wind carry them off.

I try to get those little parachute weeds first, you know? The kind that kids make wishes on and then blow the little parachutes off? If you run over those with a mower it sends those little parachutes sailing all over your lawn. Then when you water the grass you also water them. I hate them. I spit on them! *ptoo!*

Thistles, I get early on. I go out and pull these up by hand. My first encounter with these bad babies was my last encounter.

Cheatgrass is everywhere on the res. But if I mow it while it's green, it looks like grass anyway and my neighbors don't have yards (green or not) so it still looks good from a distance.

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NearertoGod

Ugh, weeds are annoying aren't they?

I know many weeds you have to get by the roots, and their roots are really long and tough!

They're kind of like rats, they'll keep coming back.

I know we have them a lot around our roses and trees, especially in pots. I'm wary of weeds because some are poisonous to my equine friends, like ragweed and loco weed, which can cause miscarriages in pregnant mares and colic.

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smorse1

An early spring pre-emergence weed and feed fertilizer is a good start...you should be able to put it down right now, and then again later in the season, according to the label directions...your local nursery or garden center should be able to provide some expertise on this too...

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I need to actually do some research on planting a tree. I dig down like 1 foot and hit rock. Nothing but rock. I've planted five or six trees since I moved into my new house...nope. They die. I water them and talk to them and hug them and play cards with them...but they still die.

In the summer, on the high desert, it can get 115 (f). In the winter, it can get -40 (f).

Weeds seem to love it here.

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Hmm..I wish I could help you out with the tree problem. We planted an apple and a peach tree last year when we first moved in and they had some white fuzzy fungus on the branches, but other than that they've been doing great. I just sprayed it with a special tree fungus spray and it seemed to go away. I hope someone else can point you in the right direction :-)

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