Identify and Control Weeds in Lawns and Gardens

Canada thistle comes back from deep creeping roots, so pulling rarely works. Here's how to identify your thistle and get rid of it with well-timed mowing, fall herbicide and smart garden-bed tactics.

Yellow flowers and upright berries mean mock strawberry, not wild strawberry. Here's how to tell them apart in a minute, whether the berries are safe, and a fall-first plan to clear mock strawberry...

Black medic looks like clover but has yellow flowers, a stalked middle leaflet and black seed pods. Here's how to tell them apart in seconds and clear black medic from your lawn.

Speedwell shrugs off most 3-way lawn sprays. Here's how to tell which speedwell you have, the herbicides and cultural fixes that actually work, and the best months to treat it.

Prostrate knotweed is a wiry, mat-forming summer annual that signals compacted soil. Learn to identify it, why late fall is the key pre-emergent window, which herbicides work, and how to stop it...

Plantain weed hides under your mower blade and thrives in compacted, hungry soil. Here's how to identify broadleaf, blackseed and buckhorn plantain, when to spray, and how to fix the lawn so it...