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Weeds

Apr 05, 2019

Norm has hope if your yard is blooming weeds.

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The Salt
A farm worker runs a tine weeder on Jason Hunton's organic wheat crop. It's like a giant comb, scraping up weeds and bits of wheat along with it.

Zapping Noxious Weeds On Organic Farms Is Harder Than You Think

Jul 10, 2017
There are few inexpensive and low-labor options to control the aggressive field invaders, which sometimes encroach on neighboring farms and potentially cut into their profits.
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Weeds

Apr 21, 2017

When I got back from vacation a couple of weeks ago, I couldn’t believe how wild my garden had grown in just a short period.

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Uninvited Guests

May 17, 2016

Weeds are uninvited guests. They arrive unannounced, take up space, consume valuable assets (like water and soil nutrients) and just won’t leave, despite our best efforts.

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Convolvulus arvensis or field bindweed
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Bindweed

Apr 29, 2016

If you’ve really been unlucky, you might have looked at your yard, vegetable garden or raised bed and discovered that you had an abundance of a white-flowered vining plant just appearing all over.

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Winter Weeds

Jan 29, 2016

This winter’s been a relatively wet one, so it really shouldn’t come as such a big shock when many plants in this region respond to the abundance of water.

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