Q: I have an ongoing issue with common chickweed in my backyard – and this year it's spread from my flower beds to the vegetable patch nearby. What can I do to get rid of it for good? A: Chickweed ...

Chickweed is a fast-spreading annual weed with tiny white flowers that can produce thousands of seeds. Keeping your lawn healthy and dense is the best natural defense against chickweed. Along with ...

Its popularity with poultry earned it the name chickweed, and some people agree, touting Stellaria media as another weed that makes a tasty salad ingredient, according to the National Garden Bureau.

Winter might seem like a season for dormancy, when frost and cold keep most plants asleep. But for the bravest, most ...

Q: My lawn is besieged with clumps of chickweed. I put down corn gluten early March. Where did this all come from? Does it propagate from seed or what? It has woven its way through the grass and is ...

Chickweed is a wild, edible green that grows in most backyards. Dropping temperatures and declining amounts of daylight have been doing a real number on edible wild greens available from the landscape ...

In spring, chickweed appears seemingly overnight. It is food for chickens, rabbits, deer and us and is sometimes used as a herbal medicine Vicky McMillan Special to The Island Packet/ The Beaufort ...

This week all the mystery plants were annual winter weeds. The mild, cool weather we had in the fall and early winter gave a quick startup to this annual problem. Weeds are rampant, and the recent ...