
UC Weed Science Blog
What homeowners can learn from farmers about weed control (WSSA article)

After an extended cool and wet spring, we are finally getting summer-like weather in most of the Central Valley. If your garden and home landscape are like mine, now is the time of the year where the winter weeds are winding down and the summer weeds...
WSSA Stewardship
New aquatic weed threatens the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta!*

Since the early 1980s, the California Department of Boating and Waterways (BWW) has been increasingly successful in managing two invasive aquatic weeds in the Sacrament-San Joaquin Delta: water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) and Brazilian waterweed...
Spongeplant- Brannan Island, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Handful of young South American Spongeplants (Note: There are several duckweed plants attached to these large seedling)
Horseweed (mare's tail) and hairy fleabane biology and management

Someone asked me a question this morning about management option for hairy fleabane and it reminded me of a nice publication that Anil, Kurt, and Steve put together a couple years ago. See ANR Publication 8314 here:...
ANR 8314 Conyza weeds
Weed control considerations in almond orchards
I spoke last week at the Central San Joaquin Valley Summer Almond Meeting (in Merced, CA) as part of a program that encompassed the almond industry, insect pests, disease managemment and weed control among other topics. The organizer, UCCE Farm Advisor...
Weed-free compost article from WSSA

Article reposted from the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) website. The pdf version of the article is attached at the bottom of the post.Take...
WSSA Compost WeedFree