Q: I was reading your response to a reader's question about a contorted filbert. You mentioned pruning. I thought, "Pruning? Am I supposed to prune it?" It has such fascinating limbs that I've just ...

Q. I have a shiny-leafed weed (actually rather pretty) that has become a problem this year. It has only six or eight leaves, and when I pull it out of my flowerbeds, it has a bulblike structure ...

Question: This nut grass is taking over my yard. Please help. Yellow nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus), also known as “chufa,” and purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus) are the most common sedge species in ...

Of several growth-regulating substances sprayed, for comparative effect, on plants of nut grass at a concentration of 8000 p. p. m., 2,4-D in tributylphosphate and kerosene killed the plants in about ...

Question: My backyard tomatoes give an abundant crop, but for the most part each one has one or more deep cuts from the top to the bottom, making them unsightly to say the least. I grew up in Ohio ...

Question: Nutgrass!*#!* My new bed in northeast Austin wraps around a hot sunny southwest street corner. Grass wouldn't grow there. (I wouldn't water it.) I removed the turf (mostly stickers) to a ...

This is the time of year you may look out on your lawn and see taller thicker patches of grass that don’t match the rest of the yard. Nut grass is a perennial grass weed that’s notoriously hard to get ...

Pay attention to what looks like a yellowish-green kind of grass that seems to be standing up higher and growing faster than "regular" grass in the lawn. It's likely the beginning of an invasion of ...