Re: weed preferences

Sal Schettino (sals@coyote.rain.org)
Wed, 16 Feb 1994 13:05:00 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 16 Feb 1994, Preston Sullivan wrote:

> Has anyone seen a listing of weeds by species that tells
> what type of soil conditions and human-induced soil
> conditions (organic matter, compaction, nitrate conc.,
> pH, etc) that certain weeds prefer? What I want this
> for is to shed some light on what farmers can do as far
> as selecting amendments and field operations that will
> affect certain weed species.

good question I have been hearning for years that one can tell just what a
soil is lacking by the weeds that grow and was also wondering what story
weeds tell.