Karl's Garden Blog

Curled Dock, Rumex Crispus L., is the bane of my backyard, and is the single most difficult plant to eradicate that I’ve encountered to date.
It’s a broad leafed perennial, non-native in the US, that grows a giant taproot that can extend up to a foot underground and more than three inches in width (!)… and [...]

Ok, Texas Gardeners — pull out your weed knowledge and help me identify what in my back yard is weed, what’s wildflower, and how to control some of this stuff!
We moved into this house in March of 2006, after a bit of a prolonged drought. We never sodded the backyard. It was left to [...]