In most neighborhoods the rain didn’t seem very generous in the last month, but it appears to have been enough to stimulate the germination and growth of weeds. Weeds such as bedstraw, thistle, rescue grass, henbit, chickweed, and annual bluegrass are everywhere. I don’t like to call annual sunflowers and blue curl “weeds,” but when they are growing in the vegetable and flower gardens, they are weeds. Two of the most serious weeds that are growing now are nutsedge and Bermuda grass.
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Mow the weeds in the lawn, pull the annual weeds in the garden, and make a note on your calendar for next February to apply a pre-emergent herbicide to prevent them from returning next year. The sunflowers are important for providing egg-laying sites for the bordered patch butterflies and seeds for the resident lesser goldfinches, but they will take over the landscape if you don’t limit their growing areas to patches away from your formal plantings…