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Perennial vine control in blueberry and apple orchards

Matthew Bley and I were out at Cold Spring Orchard last week, fertilizing the blueberries and collecting some data on weed growth. The bindweed is out, and although it may look small now, it is about to become severe. We also noticed a bittersweet vine poking up through the mulch – thank you to both [ Read More ]

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Winter Annual Weeds

If you are seeing plants in your field that are currently flowering – or even setting seed – they are probably winter annuals. Winter annual weeds germinate in the fall, flower in the early spring, set seed, and die by mid-summer (Fig. 1)1. See the UMass factsheet on weed lifecycles for more information on the [ Read More ]