Weeds : Friend or Foe? - An Illustrated Guide to Identifying, Taming and Using Weeds

Weeds plague every garden. This illustrated guide to controlling them -- or using them to your advantage -- gives you all the information you need. The book: features a detailed gallery with more than 70 common garden weed varieties; shows & describes what each weed looks like fully grown & in flower (life cycle, dispersal, ultimate height, other names, etc.); contains a guide to controlling weeds with both conventional & organic methods (herbicides, in the water garden, in paved areas, gravel & rock gardens, in the lawn); lists potential uses so you can decide whether to keep a weed or not (gardening, healing weeds, edible weeds, weeds for craft); & tells you how to use weeds to create a striking wild garden effect. A Reader's Digest Book.