Category: Permaculture Magazine

Submitted by: Tonya Molitor Everybody who has a lawn has endured the dreaded crabgrass battle. Digging it out, spot treating it with weed killer and damaging the lawn around it, or the expense and labor of the do-it-yourself treatment with not so consistent results. First, we need to know a little more about our enemy crabgrass. Crabgrass is a type of grass that appears in the warm season, with creeping stems that root freely. It requires plenty of sunlight, and has a very aggressive seeding pattern and grows rapidly. It…