{"id":4962,"date":"2013-09-01T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2018-08-26T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T01:30:07","slug":"seeds-one-year-weeds-for-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2013\/09\/01\/seeds-one-year-weeds-for-eight-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeds One Year…Weeds For Eight Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beautiful Bed of Medallion Flower (Melampodium) at Dallas Arboretum<\/p><\/div>\n

Most weed invasions happen when you let the weeds get past you. If you don’t let them flower, they won’t reproduce (seed-in). Frequent mowing or a sharp machete may delay their ability to flower and seed. This is only a temporary solution. Some weeds flower and seed below the mower’s cut. Examples are common lawn weeds such as dandilion, field morning glory (bindweed), goosegrass, crabgrass, and white clover.<\/p>\n

Favorite garden annuals and perennials may also become weedy nuisances. Some seed-in by the hundreds, overwinter, and germinate all over next spring’s garden. Perennials like summer phlox (Phlox maculata<\/em>), black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia), spiderwort (Tradescantia), tovara (Persicaria) and goldenrod (Solidago) can become serious invaders.<\/p>\n

Annuals such as marigolds, celosia, verbena, and violas frequently come back often 2-3 years after they were excluded from the flower bed. Three of the worst are morning glory (Ipomoea tricolor<\/em>), medallion flower (Melampodium) and Jewels of Opar (Talinum) which many Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina commercial landscapers have banned them from future clients’ plantings.<\/p>\n

A third class are the winter annual weeds such as annual bluegrass, henbit, and common chickweed. Their seeds are dispersed by mid- to late-spring and germinate in cool fall-winter soils when plenty of moisture is available.<\/p>\n

Chemical weed preventatives are available if you anticipate a weedy future. One of the active ingredients is Preen\u00ae (also called Treflan\u00ae). Apply before the targeted weed seeds germinate…early fall (October) or late winter (March).<\/p>\n

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Talinum (Jewels of Opar) at Dallas Arboretum<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most weed invasions happen when you let the weeds get past you. If you don’t let them flower, they won’t reproduce (seed-in). Frequent mowing or a sharp machete may delay their ability to flower and seed. This is only a temporary solution. Some weeds flower and seed below the mower’s cut. Examples are common lawn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[772,1439,602,628,1022,853,1021,1249,551,1059,729,1031,630,670,904,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10890,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions\/10890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}