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Follow these steps for optimal weed control in landscape beds.

 

Control by the calendar

Here are some guidelines for when you should pencil in your landscape bed herbicide applications.

Winter
• Install mulch.
• Apply first preemergent application for summer annual weeds.

Late spring/early summer
• Apply second preemergent application for late germinating summer annuals and nutsedge.

Late summer/early fall
• Apply preemergent application for winter annual weeds.

Note: Preemergents can be applied any time of year, just not to frozen ground. Irrigation or rain is needed
following an application.

Marisa Palmieri

Marisa Palmieri

Marisa Palmieri is an experienced Green Industry editor who's won numerous awards for her coverage of the landscape and golf course markets from the Turf & Ornamental Communicators Association (TOCA), the Press Club of Cleveland and the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). In 2007, ASBPE named her a Young Leader. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism, cum laude, from Ohio University’s Scripps School of Journalism.

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