Manage Weeds with Success

I have always battled weeds in my gardens. My biggest problem is properly differentiating between a weed and a sprouting plant that I want in my gardens. These are good points and I will make sure to refer back to this information often.

That's a very good question, Derek. It was one of the weed ecologists I interviewed for the article who noted that weeds that are allowed to remain in certain areas of the landscape year round will cycle nutrients. They do so by using nutrients from the soil to put on new growth throughout the growing season. At the end of the year, these plants die back and eventually this debris decomposes and returns those nutrients back to the soil.