UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia)

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 are coming in to take their places.

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 (Egeria densa).

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: http://ucanr.org/freepubs/docs/8314.

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.

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 care, Brad http://www.wssa.net/index.htm http://www.wssa.net/WSSA/PressRoom/WSSA_Compost_WeedFree.