Beneficial Properties of Edible Weeds

There are many ways to obtain seeds to grow flowers in the springtime, but not all seeds were created equal. Sunflower seeds, for example, can be bought at a garden store in a packet for $1.5 dollars per 6 gram packet, but they can also be found in bird seed for $3.53 dollars per 10 pounds. This experiment intends to find if the germination of a store bought packet of sunflower seeds matches the germination rate of sunflower seeds obtained from a bag of bird seed. While both seeds will germinate, it is believed that the bird seed will not be as robust in growth as the garden seed, due to the fact that the garden seed is made to be grown, while the bird seed is made for consumption.

As a homeowner with a beautiful yard, the last thing you want to have to deal with is a yard with weeds in it. In order to effectively deal with this problem, you can try these weed-killing methods.

Are you someone who goes to great lengths to eradicate weeds from your yard or may know someone who does? There are many types of weeds that grow in different areas and climates. However, various type of weeds like purslane are edible. You might want to research purslane benefits to know more.

Mulches are another form of control that seem to work well for several types of weeds. Black plastic mulch is an option for growers who would

More recently there has been an increase in strong strains of weed, including skunk and some 'homegrown' varieties. They can be 2 - 3 times stronger than normal weed and often have a more potent smell.

Cheat grass is such a problem because of its short life cycle and how fast it seeds.

In agriculture, noxious weeds pose a threat to a successful yield in crops and a healthy livestock crop each year. While some weeds are not as extreme as others, all pose a threat of some sort. Take Knapweed for example. Varieties of Knapweed tend to inhibit crops and their

Weed is an everyday term used in a variety of senses, usually to describe a plant considered undesirable within a certain context. The word commonly applied to unwanted plants in human-controlled settings, such as farm fields, gardens, lawns, and parks carries no botanical classification value, since a plant that is a weed in one context is not a weed when growing where it is wanted. Indeed, a number of plants that many consider weeds are often intentionally grown in gardens and other cultivated settings. Less commonly, the term is applied to any plant that grows and reproduces aggressively outside its native habitat. The term is occasionally used to broadly describe species outside the plant kingdom that can live in diverse environments and

The positive and deleterious effects of plant interactions is an area of important study considering a large portion of the worlds dietary needs revolve around plants. As humans wage war for resources, plants wage chemical warfare, silently, around us. In agriculture, allelopathy of plant extracts has many applications, during crop rotation, mulching, and pest management.(1) Allelopathy helps explain why invasive species are able to be so prolific and why native species are not properly equipped to deal with it. Many invasive species were brought from Europe before plant communities were well understood.

Objective 2a: Crop competitive ability and disease resistance: Assess varietal differences in competitive ability against weeds and resistance against major diseases for oat, winter wheat and spring wheat. a.) Quantify weed suppressive ability under organic field conditions; b.) Quantify crop tolerance of weed pressure in field conditions; c.) Determine which crop characteristics (emergence timing, leaf blade width, tillering, leaf area index, height, growth rate) are most highly correlated with crop weed suppressive ability and weed tolerance (Drs. Carr, Gramig, Menalled, and Sexton); d.) Evaluate two biological control agents (Ballad Plus and Kodiak Concentrate OMRI-approved chemicals) to control crown rust of oat and tan spot and FHB

Every garden has its own purpose that makes gardeners devote a significant amount of time to take care of them. Gardeners are coming up with their own unique ways of taking care of their gardens, especially when they make profits out of it. In his book, The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan claims that the best gardeners of his generation have devoted themselves to growing cannabis, popularly known as marijuana. Intrigued with Pollan’s argument, I totally agree with him. Marijuana growers are the best gardeners because they perfected the plant in growing them indoors, they make a good profit, and the plant itself fills the need of humans for transcendent altered states of consciousness.

Twenty years ago Monsanto engineered a glyphosate based herbicide called roundup that fit the needs of their genetically modified seeds that they produced. The roundup would kill off the pesky weeds that farmers didn’t

Superweeds are hard to get rid of and encroach on American farmland, forcing farmers to use heavy doses of poisonous glyphosate. Superweeds can be found in over half of U.S.

Cutworms feed on the roots of young plants and also on the leaves closest to the ground, so weeding regularly reduces their choice of food.

The increase of food supply can solve the hunger and poverty problem in certain countries in the world due to food shortage crisis. According to Thayer (1999), there is 71% of the land is planted with herbicide–tolerant plants compared to insecticide–resistant crops. Crops can be genetically modified into herbicide–tolerant crops in order to increase their resistance towards herbicide as well as to prolong their life spans (Uzogara, 2000). Therefore, herbicides can destroy many target weeds which can affect the normal growth of crops effectively but not the crops itselves (Chemical Control, 2012; Thayer, 1999). However, traditional crops will suffer ‘knock–back’ to its growth as herbicide also kills the crops, at the same time affecting