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Weed Control in Your Landscape Beds

As wonderful as summer is, the season brings weeds to our landscape beds.  Hopefully, your landscape beds have had a fresh coat of mulch this season, which will be the best way to help keep weeds at bay, but there most likely will still be some.  Here are some ways we deal with weeds at Royal Creations Architectural Landscaping. 

Hand Pull Weeds 

The first way to tackle a weed is to pull it out of the ground and throw it on the compost pile or in the trash.  Pulling weeds is the most environmentally friendly way to kill them.  Make sure you pull the entire plant including the roots or the weed will just grow back.  That can be tough if the weed has a long taproot, but it is important.  If you can stay on top of regular weeding weekly or monthly, this can usually do the trick for most of your mulched areas. 

Spot Spraying 

If you have tough weeds that just won’t die, or you are renovating landscape beds that have major weed problems, you can use herbicides to treat the problem.  When you spot spray, you must be very careful to only spray on the target weed.  If the spray hits a plant you want to keep, it will cause damage and may kill it.  Only spray on calm days because the wind will cause the spray to drift onto nearby plants.  Spray the weeds thoroughly so that you can make sure to eliminate the plant. 

Reapply Pre-Emergent 

After we have removed the problem weeds, we reapply pre-emergent to the mulch in the landscape beds.  We first applied pre-emergent when we freshened the mulch for spring.  Most pre-emergents work for thirty to ninety days, so it is time to apply again.   Weed seeds are spread by the wind, by birds, and by animals, so they can land on top of the mulch.  While the mulch keeps most weeds from growing, a few will sprout in the mulch.  These weeds are the ones we treat with pre-emergent.  Typically, we will treat our clients' mulch beds with pre-emergent 3 times during the growing season. 

Weed-Free Guarantee 

If you sign up for our garden care program, we will come weed your landscape beds for you.  We will hand pull the weeds we can, and spot-spray the stubborn ones.  Once your garden is weed free, we will apply another coat of pre-emergent to take care of the weeds through the summer.  If you are bothered by weeds between our visits, we will come back and remove them at no extra charge.  The benefits of our garden care program depend on the level you choose but can include spring mulch, spring plant health care, six monthly weed control visits, fall mulch, fall plant health care, winter plant health care, and summer plant health care, and even some annual flowers for our Royal Treatment customers. 

Sign-Up Now 

If you would like to have a weed-free landscape, then you can Sign-up for our garden care program by calling Royal Creations Architectural Landscaping at (816) 825-2524.  Get on our schedule now so you can enjoy a weed-free summer.