After yesterday's lovely UCMGMB Garden Tour and all the well-loved and well cared-for gardens we were so lucky to visit, today's post is about the gardens, roadsides, ag fields, and abandoned lots of our area that still need some green thumb action. While the worst of the spring flush of weeds may now be past, hopefully this post will prepare us all for next year so that we can attack these weeds at the beginning of the season and eradicate them!

In my UCCE Master Gardener class we defined a weed as any plant that grows where you don't want it to grow. So that means it's kind of subjective. But there is general agreement among many gardeners, agriculture folks and sustainability folks about the identification of some common...