or buckwheat, in your garden during the off-season can outcompete weeds for space and nutrients. These plants grow densely and shade the soil, preventing weed seeds from germinating. Additionally ...

This practice can be especially successful at reducing the weed seedbank of winter annual and early emerging species, such as stinkweed, knotweed, Russian pigweed, Russian thistle, lambs quarters, ...

Weeds such as Russian thistle, tumble mustard, wild buckwheat, stinkweed, green foxtail ... indicates that harrow direction has little effect on selectivity (ratio of weed control to crop injury).