HERBICIDE NOT BEST CHOICE

Spraying herbicide is risky business. You could damage, even destroy the trees, if your workers aren’t careful. A simple shift in the wind could mean a bunch of dead trees. Besides, chemical solutions are rarely the best solution.

Weed mats are environmentally friendly. They don’t leach into the soil and end up in the water table. They won’t blow away in the wind and poison your neighbor’s flowers.

Weeds are everywhere: on lawns, in flower gardens, among the tomato plants, wherever you don’t want them to be. Left uncontrolled, weeds can starve out young seedlings. They’re more aggressive, more prolific and they grow faster.

Weeds absorb water and nutrients, robbing your trees of crucial life-sustaining elements just when they need them most. Weeds can even outgrow your plants, thereby depriving them of much-needed sunlight.

If you fertilize without first removing weeds, you are fertilizing the weeds instead.