Seacoast Gardener: We Weed!!!
Seacoast Gardener & landscaping helps homeowners prevent and remove weeds year-round with expert Integrated Weed Management. We use a combination of mulch, proper plant spacing, hand-pulling, and eco-friendly treatments to keep your yard healthy and weed-free. Seasonal strategies target weeds before they spread, reducing maintenance and protecting your landscape. Enjoy a lush, beautiful yard without the hassle—let our landscape team handle the weeds for you! Contact us today for a weed-free season!
Keep Your Landscape Weed-Free with Seacoast Gardener
Step One: Prevention & Weed Barriers
Integrated Weed Management (IWM) focuses on preventing weed infestations by combining multiple control strategies to create physical and herbicide barriers against weed establishment. Prevention is the first line of defense, reducing the need for chemical or mechanical interventions. Key strategies include planting dense garden beds to suppress weed growth by outcompeting them for light, nutrients, and space.
In combination, we utilize physical barriers such as mulches, landscape fabrics whenever possible to prevent weed development along with a safe pre-emergent herbicide such as Preen to prevent further weed seed germination. Contact Seacoast Gardener to lean more about the cost and applicability of Integrated Weed Management for your landscape.
Step Two: Weeding & Physical Removal
The key element in controlling weeds is removing or uprooting them by hand. We identify unwanted plants that compete with desired crops or flowers. Using hand tools like a trowel, hoe, or weeding fork, they loosen the soil around the weeds, making it easier to remove them by the roots. Pulling weeds out completely is crucial to prevent regrowth. Regular maintenance, such as handpicking young weeds before they mature and spread seeds, is essential. In larger garden beds, hoes or cultivators help disrupt weed growth efficiently. After weeding, we dispose of the removed plants properly to prevent reseeding. Consistency and early intervention help keep the garden bed healthy and free of invasive plants, ensuring optimal growth for desired plants. If you would like to learn more or identify most invasive weeds and aggressive weeds, go to our Weed Page
Step Three: Safe & Organic Herbicides
Our Weed Management utilizes pre-emergent and post emergent organic herbicides to control pervasive weeks that persist. We use, Preen, a Pre-emergent herbicide that prevents weed growth by creating a chemical barrier in the soil that inhibits seed germination and root development before weeds emerge. Preen is good grade safe and does not impact existing plants or weeds.
Once weeds have sprouted up, we turn to an organic Post-emergent herbicide, Avenger, which targets actively growing weeds by disrupting essential processes like photosynthesis or enzyme function. Avenger which is citrus based is non-selective weed killer and has to be used carefully on weeds and not other plants. Avenger kills vegetation on contact.
Although both Preen and Avenger are organic and known to be harmless to people and pets, we utilize they sparingly and only when necessary.
Step Four: Monitoring & adjustment
Integrated Weed Management relies on continuous monitoring and adaptive strategies to effectively control weeds. Regular cultivating is crucial to keep weeds at bay. Soil cultivation circulates pre-emergent herbicides into all areas of the soil, as well as undercuts early weed development.
Adjustments to weed management strategies should be based on real-time observations. If a particular method—such as cultural, mechanical, or chemical control—proves ineffective, modifications are necessary, including rotating herbicides or more frequent physical removal.
By integrating monitoring with timely adjustments, IWM ensures long-term weed suppression while reducing reliance on herbicides. This adaptive strategy enhances sustainability, preserves soil health, and supports a healthy garden