Meet the most common botanical interlopers you're likely to find in your garden or vegetable patch, and learn how to treat ...

Ground cover plants filling a small garden bed sandwiched between a metal fence and a lawn. - Maya Karkalicheva/Getty Images Battling unwanted growth can be one of the most frustrating outdoor tasks, ...

Weed prevention is the best bet overall. One way to prevent weeds is to use an effective ground cover, preventing weed seeds from germinating. Sunlight on weed seed resting on soil plus water spurs ...

Ground cover plants are a great way to protect your garden from weeds. Often referred to as "living mulch," ground covers take sunlight, nutrients, and water from weeds -- suppressing their growth in ...

Even barely poking through the ground, weeds are distinctive. Determining the right tools for early identification and control are the goals of an ongoing Texas A&M AgriLife Research project. Muthu ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — "Yellow fever" has broken out in farm fields across Indiana. A bright, butter-colored weed is casting a beautiful hue over many fields and pastures. Unless farmers act quickly ...

A new weed, called tropical spiderwort, has popped up in North Carolina and could bring big problems for farmers and homeowners. "In Georgia, for example, where a couple of years ago it was almost a ...