{"id":35742,"date":"2016-07-14T21:22:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T03:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=35742"},"modified":"2016-07-14T21:24:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T03:24:57","slug":"my-backyard-weeds-good-versus-bad-grasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/my-backyard-weeds-good-versus-bad-grasses\/","title":{"rendered":"My Backyard Weeds &#8211; Good versus Bad Grasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-35751\" title=\"grasses good versus bad\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/grasses-good-versus-bad-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"grasses good versus bad\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/grasses-good-versus-bad-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/grasses-good-versus-bad-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/grasses-good-versus-bad-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Grasses can be<\/strong> some of the most frustrating weeds around. Even your own lawn can easily become a pernicious weed in flower or vegetable gardens because of roots spreading or not getting adequately trimmed at borders, so that it is left to seed.<\/p>\n<p>It helps to learn some about the different kinds of grass, which is what my son, a landscape architect in the yard care business, helped me with today. He let me video him explaining things, and armed with that information, I was able to look some things up more effectively. After all, if you just goggle &#8220;grass weed,&#8221; you are libel to get a wide variety of things&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So here is the video, and below are several other links that I found useful to read afterward.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7hizNNEZj3A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Helpful links:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.american-lawns.com\/grasses\/turf-type_tall_fescue.html\" target=\"_blank&quot;\">Turf type tall fescue<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extension.umn.edu\/garden\/yard-garden\/weeds\/controlling-quackgrass-in-gardens\/\" target=\"_blank\">Controlling quackgrass in gardens<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msuturfweeds.net\/details\/_\/annual_bluegrass_47\/\" target=\"_blank\">Annual bluegrass &#8211; poa annua<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whygoodnature.com\/lawn-problems\/Bentgrass\/?id=852\" target=\"_blank\">Bentgrass<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And if you happen to live near Boise or Nampa, here is his website:<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativeyardscapes.com\/category\/introducing-creative-yardscapes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Yardscapes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35750\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35750\" title=\"Everyone enjoys grass in the right places.\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/grasses-with-kitten-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Everyone enjoys grass in the right places.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/grasses-with-kitten-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/grasses-with-kitten-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/grasses-with-kitten-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everyone enjoys grass in the right places.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grasses can be some of the most frustrating weeds around. Even your own lawn can easily become a pernicious weed in flower or vegetable gardens because of roots spreading or not getting adequately trimmed at borders, so that it is left to seed. It helps to learn some about the different kinds of grass, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,104],"tags":[75,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}