We have all heard the old saying that a weed is a plant that is in the wrong place or the variant by Sara Stein that not only is it in the wrong place but that it intends to stay. Although these sayings and others like them are amusing to read, the job of removing these wrongly placed plants is another matter. So when someone “promises to show you how to get a handle on weeds and keep them under control forever with a few simple steps” it is worth paying attention. This is exactly what Mike McGroarty claims in his article which I found on Mike’s Backyard Nursery website.

Weeds are by far one of the biggest challenges that gardeners face.? But it doesn?t have to be that way and I promise to show you how to get a handle on weeds and keep them under control forever with a few simple steps.

What it takes to make a weed happy.

Mike!? Are you crazy?? I don?t really care to make my weeds happy!

Weed seeds germinate before your eyes.

Back to the weeds.

You have to understand what it takes to make weeds happy so you know which things to remove from their life.? Once removed the weeds wither away and die and new ones don?t return.

Weeds need these three things.

Water.
Sunlight.
Nutrition.
Ut-Oh.? That ain?t good because all of the plants in our landscape need those same three things, how can we possibly take them away?

Weeds get out of control quickly.

We can?t remove the water because Mother Nature is in charge of that most of the time and our plants cannot survive without water.? We can?t remove nutrition because our plants need the nutrition even more so than the weeds.? So that only leaves us one thing we can control.

See more at Mike’s Backyard Nursery