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In our home
gardens, weeds demand a great portion of our time
and effort to cultivate a beautiful garden. In
the economy of agriculture, controlling weeds is a
serious, mission-critical, operation. For agriculture
applications, please see the White
Paper On the Weed Twister and Other Alternatives to Precise Hand Weeding
in Agricultural Applications.
We are surrounded by weeds. Ever since humans
began planting and cultivating plants, weeds have been a
problem. A weed is any plant in the wrong
place. Weeds take valuable space, water,
sunlight and nutrients that may otherwise be accessible
to important crops. This degrades the quality of
agricultural products, increases costs, and may result in
poor nutrition for the intended consumer.
Consequently, many agricultural solutions include
efficient, but potentially toxic chemicals. Here
you may discover that some of the weeds you find in your
garden may be harmful to the environment or noxious to your
regional ecology.
Although some invasive weeds compromise the
biodiversity of our regional ecosystems, we also have to
recognize that agriculture often destroys the native
flora, as well. Can humans have their cake and eat
it, too?
By learning more about our
natural environment, we can better protect the
world our children will inherit. Will they inherit
a world of beautiful flowers and bountiful farms, or will
we leave them with a "world of weeds?" Will
the chemicals we use in our own gardens pollute the water
tables we all share? How can we protect our
small
animals from herbicides?
Browse through the gardening
books section to window shop or purchase
reference books on gardening, weeds, landscaping and
related topics. Ergonica has selected special
titles in association with Amazon.com that we believe
will appeal to our World of Weeds visitors.
The Weeder Features page provides a
consumer guide and information as well as a Weeder
Features Chart to help you classify numerous
non-toxic weed removal
tools on the web market today.
This information will help you make the right choices
in your online shopping for gardening tools and
especially weed removal tools and products.
But to some home gardeners, a weed is a
potential benefit to your garden, as described in
the "Weeds
and Words" article. A beautiful fragrance
to one person, is a cause of hay fever to
another.
Take a deep breath, open your eyes, clear your
senses, and join us for a walk in the natural world of
weeds. Pour yourself a cup of tea, and visit for a
while. If weeds have survived the disfavor of
humans for millions of years, perhaps we may learn
something from them? If this is not a good
time for you, bookmark this site and come back when it's
more convenient for your visit.
According to the Bureau of Land Management,
some plants are potentially noxious to the
environment and should never be transported to other
areas. The President of the United States
has issued an Executive Order about Invasive
Species.
It's fascinating to see all the tools
and strategies people have created over the years to
control weeds, remove weeds, poison weeds, burn weeds,
and so on. Here you will find perhaps the largest
selection of mechanical weed removing hand tools
described on the web.
Ergonica has also invented a new tool called the WEED TWISTER that
does an excellent job of pulling out individual weeds in
tight spaces. Whether you're killing weeds or
"grooming misplaced plants," the tool you
select could help you get the job done more successfully
and efficiently. As suggested in Groom Your Garden,
your attitude and philosophy could make the difference
between an arduous task or an artful experience.
Join us for an educational tour of The World of
Weeds by exploring the links and information on this
site. These include scientific studies
of where weeds come from, agricultural and horticultural
methods to control weeds, weeding
tips and sites that list and categorize plants
and weeds of all types. Also presented are
beautiful gardens
and arboretums, gardening and nature support groups, and
sources where you can
purchase tools to control weeds, including this
site.
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If you're in search of an organic, mechanical,
non-toxic, or back-saving remedy for weeds, you've come
to the right place!
Select and Learn about weed
identification and management for various weed types -- annual,
biennial, noxious, toxic, grass, herb, woody, tree, vine, aquatic, lawn weeds, etc. --
free Weed Identification PDF downloads from Ergonica ...
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