PREVENTION: Keepings weeds out of, or from spreading in your yard, garden, or landscape; cover crop; nutrient management.
BIOLOGICAL: Grow a healthy and mature landscape to give established plants a competitive advantage over weeds and keep them from spreading; using living organisms (bacteria, fungi, or insects) to help eliminate target weeds.
CHEMICAL: Being eco-friendly, we discourage broad use of herbicides that are hazardous to the environment, and when necessary suggest application of organic and natural methods as pr-emergent in spring-time.
CULTURAL: Hand pulling, tillage, burning (flame or steam heat), mowing, seasonal weed seed control.
MECHANICAL:
Weeding-Wise
YARD and GARDEN
INTEGRATED WEED MANAGEMENT
Integrated Weed Management employs a combination of methods to manage garden weeds:
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PREVENTION: Prevention is the most effective, economical, and ecologically sound management technique. The spread of weeds can be prevented by cleaning equipment, vehicles, clothing, and shoes before moving to weed-free areas; using weed-free sand, soil, and gravel; and using certified weed-free seed and feed.
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CULTURAL: Establishing healthy native or other desirable vegetation. Also, re-vegetating or re-seeding, fertilizing, and irrigation.
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BIOLOGICAL: The use of an organism such as insects to control weeds.
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MECHANICAL: Physical or mechanical means to remove, kill, injure, or alter growing conditions of unwanted plants. Methods include mowing, hand-pulling, tilling, mulching, cutting, and clipping seed heads.
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CHEMICAL: The use of herbicides to suppress or kill weeds by disrupting bio-chemical processes unique to plants. *
* We do not subscribe to the application of toxic chemicals to control or attempt to eradicate weeds.
Nor will we work on a property where ROUNDUP or similar chemical products have been applied.