Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NY State IPM Program at Cornell University/Flickr/CC BY 2.0 Even if you didn't know its quirky name, you have likely seen ...

There was a fair amount of quackgrass on the farm where I worked as a teen. In town, however, crabgrass was a more common problem—and one that was easier to solve since it spread by seed only and not ...

FARGO — Quackgrass and crabgrass have done quite well for themselves, as weeds go. Neither existed in North America until they were imported by well-intentioned people, and now the weedy grasses have ...

Quackgrass (Elytrigia repens) is a rhizomatous perennial that spreads by seeds and rhizomes. Quackgrass is a highly competitive agricultural weed that can significantly reduce crop yields and reduce ...

What did one grass blade say to the other about the lack of rain? I guess we’ll just have to make dew. Speaking of lawn grass, I’ve received a large number of questions lately about crabgrass and ...

I saw your article in the paper about dethatching, and I power rake my lawn every year. It looks great after power raking, and I thought that was the same as dethatching. Should I not be doing that? — ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Few garden tasks are as gratifying as ripping out my nemesis, quackgrass, an aggressive perennial grass that spreads by seed and by rhizomes. In the past, ...

Quackgrass has wide, light-green blades compared to the thinner, darker-green fine fescue pictured here. As a perennial weed, quackgrass can be more difficult to control in lawns. Chris Enroth Chris ...