Posts Tagged: weed competition

Alkali spot grows weeds instead of tomatoes

Last summer, I transplanted a tomato variety trial into a field not far from Dos Palos, an area where annual crops such as cotton, corn, tomatoes, and melons have historically dominated the agricultural landscape. The soils in this area typically are clay loams with elevated pH (> 7) as well as...

What changes in weed species are we seeing after four years of drought?

Do weed populations change during a drought? Does drought favor certain species? Does annual or perennial species matter? During this four year period of drought in California, have they changed? What are the populations of annual and perennial weeds? With a limiting growth factor, in this case...

Electrocuting weeds

From the Invasive Plants in Sourthern California blog (//ucanr.edu/blogs/socalinvasives/index.cfm)   This blog should be filed under, “They'll try anything, especially if they think there is lots of money in it and they don't know the business.” Since I moved from an...

Using turf grass type and cultivars as a competitive control of large and smooth crabgrass in turf grass programs

We have all heard that turf grass is competitive to weeds and other plants in the landscape.  There are several turf grass types grown in California. In southern California, Bermuda grass is the more common planting though Turf-type tall fesc ue is also used as well as other species to a...

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