thot I would add- this is the info I came up with and also how to make a nettle infusion: Dosages: Stinging nettle - 250 mg. freeze-dried extract every 2-4 hours or until symptoms subside Ephedra: 12.5 - 25 mg. 3x day Quercetin - 400 mg. 2x day between meals Echinacea - 350 mg 3x day Garlic - tablet equivalent of 10 cloves of garlic Honey- 2 tbs daily == Nettle infusion A couple of months before your allergies usually begin, start drinking nettles infusions. Nettles Infusion 1 quart room temperature water 4 tablespoons dried nettles Let the nettles and water sit over night in a quart glass mason jar. In the morning strain the herb out and drink the quart of nettles infusion over the next two days. Especially in warm weather the infusion can go bad so it is important to keep it refrigerated. When you are ready to drink it take it out of the fridge and warm it up. Normally a nettles infusion is good for two days if not left out in the heat. You can drink 1 to 3 cups of nettles infusion a day for several months. Over the years I have watched many of my clients eliminate their spring allergies following the above protocols along with drinking nettles for about two months prior to allergy season and then continuing to drink it throughout the time they would normally have allergies.

You can use Weed-B-Gone broadleaf weed killer and/or Weed-B-Gone CCO (clover, chickweed, oxalis) Killer on perennial rye depending on the weeds you have. They work very well and don't hurt PR as long as you follow the directions on the bottle. If your weeds are numerous and intermingled with the whole lawn you will need a hose end sprayer. If they are more isolated then you should spot treat them with a tank sprayer, you will use less product and more product will be delivered to the weeds. Again read all the directions on the bottle as most weed killers can't be applied to grass that's too young, or if the temperatures outside are too high.

Likes a sandy soil. Don't dig in the soil and mix in the bark, in an attempt to incorporate compost. Instead augment and maintain the bark, or cover with another comparatively coarse mulch, like cedar play chips (I love the cedar mill by-product we have been getting on Camano Island). In nature organic debris falls on the ground and is decomposed and integrated by insects, fungi and bacteria, started at the surface. Mulching imitates this, unlike amending. A coarser material like the bark is a better cover for the soil than a finer, more decomposed one like finished compost. Part of the beneficial influence of the mulch is due to difference in texture (particle size) between the mulch and the soil. A finer mulch is less effective, being of more similar texture to the soil beneath. Shrubby plants such as Lithodora really hate damage to their roots, as is liable to occur when attempting to improve soil conditions for them by digging in compost around them. The sheet of blue in spring produced by a large, healthy mat of Lithodora is wonderful. However, a blackening and decline similar to that also seen here on bearberry on some sites is common. If it begins to occur on your plants at some point, do not feel you are being singled out.

Move your daylillies temporarily. Wait until later in the summer after the daffodils have died down the the year, then spray it out with glyphosate (Roundup). Then you can move your daylillies back after the grasses have all died. It may take a second treatment on the grass. You will have some continuing control of the grasses, but most should be gone and a good mulch or other groundcover will deter them from coming back.