Lovely weather!  And I am sure you are out in it!  I will be as soon as I get this sent off!

June 5                   June 10

Champlain                           300                         373

Geneva                                377                         456

Riverhead                           448                         519

I guess I picked good options for weather stations as each one is where the next one will be in 5 days (except for Riverhead – our weather pioneer!)

Not much has changed in what to scout for.  I have been having interesting conversations about weeds, though – bindweed and horseweed – in addition to pulling a lot of them at my house.

Unfortunately this system won’t let me attach anything but the tiniest file so if you are interested in getting the fact sheets on Horseweed vs. Goldenrod and Know Your Bindweeds let me know.  Direct email will work.

Why should you want to identify these weeds?  Not all herbicides work the same way on the different bindweeds and horseweed is one of those weeds that is starting to develop resistance to glyphosate.  If you have a resistant population and are using glyphosate, you probably aren’t getting the control you expect.

I also learned there is a mite that was imported to feed on bindweed.  Probably doesn’t work in our humid clime, and it isn’t a quick fix – but interesting!

Have a great week!