By Michael J. McGroarty Keeping your landscape plantings, flower beds, and nursery crops free of weeds is a battle, but if you approach it with a strategic plan, you will prevail. In order to develop a plan, you first must understand how weeds work, and what kind of weeds you are dealing with.
Weeds grow either from seed, or they reproduce from their roots.
As the roots grow outward from the parent plant new plants sprout up from the lateral roots, creating more parent plants. The process continues and the weeds thrive. Weeds that tend to reproduce from the root are usually more difficult to control. Weeds are plants, and they function just like the desirable plants in your yard. They need water, sunlight, and nutrition to survive.