I just read an article that likens hairy bittercress (HB) to the “cranky old man up the street.” If you are familiar with hairy bittercress, you will most likely agree. If you are just now learning ...

Hairy bittercress is a fast-spreading, cool-season weed that can quickly overtake your lawn if you don’t take the right precautions. Fortunately, with the right maintenance and preventative measures, ...

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 ...

We’re swamped with a new weed this year. It started with round rosettes of leaves with white flowers on stems, but it is everywhere in beds and lawn. Now the flower stems have gotten taller and ...

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Hairy bittercress, get off my lawn! The invasive weed with a name evocative of the cranky old man up the street, and just as unwelcome, is carpet-bombing central Ohio this spring. Hairy bittercress, a ...

DEAR BARBARA: I didn’t recognize your visitor, so I reached out to Andy Senesac, weed science specialist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, based in Riverhead. Senesac said it ...

DEAR JESSICA: This weed has thrived in my neighbors’ and my lawn and garden beds for about two years. Its early growth resembles a pansy leaf. How do we get rid of it? — Carolyn O’Loughlin, Wantagh ...

Bittercress is often introduced unwittingly into British gardens and can be very hard to eliminate. There are different types of bittercress: hairy bittercress, an annual species, and wavy bittercress ...

The plants’ small, bright green rosettes send up little white flowers that form seed pods, beginning as early as late January ...