Ever since taking our Weed ID course for my Greenspace Horticulture Diploma , I’ve been passionate about eradicating weeds. Wishful thinking for every Winnipeger! Whether you have weed cloth or not, whether your yard is full of stone mulch or wood mulch or grass; weeds can prevail.
There are three different kinds: Annual, perennial, and biennial. We learned about 20 kinds of weeds, their characteristics, patterns, and habits. But one thing was for sure, other than chemical pesticide, hand removal seemed to be the only thing that could get at them… over and over again.
From the various Horticulture workshops that I have given, the most recent one was – Green Thumbs Unite: A Workshop on Sustainable Weed Control PDF! I also talked about Winnipeg Weed ID PDF!
Below is a list of weeds we learned to attack!
Brome Grass / Bromus inermis
Burdock / Arctium minus
Canada Thistle / Cirsium arvense
Chickweed/ Stellaria media
Creeping Bellflower / Campanula rapunculoides
Creeping Charlie / Glechoma hederacea
Dandelion / Taraxacum officinale
Groundsel / Senecio vulgaris
Lamb’s Quarters / Pigweed / Chenopodium album
Purslane / Portulaca oleracea
Knotweed / Polygonum aviculare
Plantain / Plantago major
Pineappleweed / Matricaria discoidea
Mallow / Malva rotundifolia
Quackgrass / Agropyron repens
White Clover / Trifolium repens
Stinging Nettle / Urtica dioica
Poison Ivy / Toxicodendronradicans
Volunteer Maple / Acer
Volunteer Elm / Ulumus