Identify and Control Weeds in Lawns and Gardens

English ivy shrugs off quick fixes. Here's how to get rid of English ivy on trees, walls and groundcover beds, which herbicides research supports, and the best time to act.

Poison ivy has three leaflets and hairy aerial roots; Virginia creeper has five leaflets and disc-tipped tendrils. Here's how to tell them apart in every season, what each does to skin and pets, and...

Poison ivy keeps coming back because its roots survive. Here's how to kill poison ivy for good with the right herbicide, the cut-stump method, smart timing and safe, non-chemical options.

Wild garlic has round, hollow leaves; wild onion has flat, solid ones. Here's how to confirm the ID in a minute and time lawn-safe treatments to finally kill the bulbs.

Hairy bittercress sprouts in fall, hides as a flat rosette all winter, then fires its seeds feet away in spring. Here's how to identify it and the timing that actually stops it.

Fall weed and feed can be the most effective way to treat broadleaf weeds in a cool-season lawn, if you time it right, apply it to damp leaves and choose a product labeled for your grass. Here's the...