The Soil Holds a Weed Seed for Fifty Years, Give or Take a Year!

Have you read my digital short yet? Okay maybe you haven’t, but you should, it really isn’t that bad. The blog posts here are going to touch on a few different things: lawn care tips, my digital shorts, and then lawn care. Now when I mention the word lawn care it encompasses but is not mutually exclusive to turf grass, weeds, insects, diseases of not just lawns but also trees and shrubs, fertilization techniques, the fertilizer itself, and also my digital shorts( really you should read them, but by now I think that you get the point).

The point raised in the title is true. Weeds attack our lawns in many different ways, we will need to spend a week’s worth of posts on that subject and we will. I will also have placed different herbicides on the wheel to the right for you to purchase to remedy your possible issues. But I digress yet again. Weed seeds are in the soil. Through expansion and contraction of the soil, those weed seeds come to the surface and once receiving some sunlight, POP, the weeds emerge: fun stuff and the bain of many people’s existence.

This reason alone , the expansion and contraction of the soil is one of the reasons , but not the only one, that those of us that have nice thick, lush turf grass get weeds. It is bound to happen; there is nothing anyone can do about it. Besides that the herbicides used in the lawn care industry only have a 30 day window of residual, approximately. Some have a little more, some less. That is why some folks that apply weed control on April one and then don’t do it again till September and wonder why, oh why do they have weeds all summer. There you go.

I hope that you got a little something from that. It is simple to understand but the ramifications of it are huge. Weeds and their growth cycle are greatly misunderstood. I guess that is kind of like me, misunderstood. But I have to say that there is not a single weed, insect or disease that I don’t enjoy killing. Follow the blog; I will explain how to eradicate many things that are a nuisance to you. I look forward to hearing from you, drop me a line; let’s talk turf.