The first culprit is henbit, which just about everyone has in their lawn or garden. Thankfully, henbit is pretty easy to pull or hoe, although you need to make sure you get the roots as well as the top growth.

The second is chickweed, which also grows throughout North America. It too is easy to pull or hoe, but get it early in the season to avoid a carpet of chickweed later in the year.

Queen Anne’s lace is a beautiful member of the carrot family and is an important source of food for some beneficial insects, including wasps. Unfortunately, Queen Anne’s lace also reseeds and spreads rampantly, so if you choose to grow it, make sure you keep it under control. Do this by gently pulling it up, taproot and all, preferably while the plants are young.

Dandelion must also be carefully dug out of the ground because any portion of its long taproot that remains in the ground will send up new leaves. You can also control dandelions by constantly pulling their flowers as they form. By removing the flowers, reserved nutrients will be depleted, and eventually the plant will die. Along the way, you can enjoy a bouquet of dandelion flowers and add the edible leaves to salads.

Privet can be another troublesome weed, thanks to birds that eat the seeds from mature plants and deposit them all over the place. When young, these seedlings are easy to pull up, but as they get older, they become more difficult to remove. Privet can grow up to ten feet in no time at all, so if you don’t like it, get rid of the seedlings as soon as they appear.”

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