Tag Archives: Weed Growing

11 Jun

Featured, Marijuana News

Blundering Gardener: You may weed your garden. I ‘edit’ mine

• June 11, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

My friend Marge Hols came by today. She wrote a gardening column for the Pioneer Press for many years before retiring, which was when I...

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11 Jun

Featured, weed news

GOOD TO GROW: Garden Weed Control

• June 11, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - but that's not always the case when it comes to weeds. Spurge, bindweed, and puncturevine are co...

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04 Jun

Featured, Marijuana Growing

A weed grows in Hoboken

• June 4, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Speaking of Hoboken’s backyard gardens (Hoboken Reporter, May 27), my neighbor has a big stand of bamboo, which (bamboo being a notorio...

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24 May

Featured, Marijuana Growing

Weed-killing robots are threatening giant chemical companies’ business models

• May 24, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

AI-powered weed hunters could soon reduce the need for herbicides and genetically modified crops. How it’s done now: Current farming...

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24 May

Featured, Marijuana Growing, Weed

Robot weed killers poised to disrupt U.S. agriculture

• May 24, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

YVERDON-LES-BAINS, Switzerland  •  In a field of sugar beets in Switzerland, a solar-powered robot that looks like a table on wheel...

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22 May

Featured, Marijuana Growing

A Documentary Profiling Weed Growing Nuns Will Release This Fall

• May 22, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

The first time I smoked weed the friend of a friend’s mom walked in, but instead of getting mad she just murmured that if God didn’t wa...

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18 May

Featured, Marijuana Growing, Marijuana Reviews

Weed management field day

• May 18, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Join Midcoast Council’s weeds coordinator Terry Inkson and bush regenerator Miles Dixon for an information packed morning and after...

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16 May

Featured, Marijuana Growing

Should I grow my own weed at home? Here’s what you need to know

• May 16, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

As legalization spreads, more people are interested in home growing. While it might not be rocket science, it does involve some knowhow...

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09 May

Featured, Marijuana Growing

Genetics help make a weed a weed

• May 9, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

New University of British Columbia research finds that the success of weedy and invasive plants like the Jerusalem artichoke lies in th...

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27 Apr

Featured, Life Style, People, Weed

New Weed Science faculty member

• April 27, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

I am Mohsen Mesgaran, a new weed faculty with the Department of Plant Sciences based at UC Davis (Robbins Hall). I did my PhD in Wee...

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