Purple Pastures

(Sponsored Content) — The colors of the countryside play a significant role in the admiration for rural areas. Every color of the rainbow is visible, from crops to barns to houses. Debates often arise regarding red tractors versus green tractors, highlighting the diversity of preferences.

Arguably, however, the most attractive hues found in the country are the purples.

Wild violets are pretty! Some folks even eat the cute little purple things. Take a second to do a quick internet search and you’ll find recipes for wild violet jelly, syrup and muffins. After all, wild violets have anti-inflammatory properties and are high in vitamin C.

There is a battle between wild violets and your lawn, however, the cute little purple things are probably going to win and choke out your grass — unless you give your turf a hand. LV Max Fast-Acting Weed Killer from Gordon’s controls over 90 listed broadleaf weeds, including wild violet, ground ivy, thistle, bindweed, buttercup and pigweed.

Folks out for a drive in the country often find themselves captivated by the beautiful purple pasture of ground ivy. They’re not wrong, as everyone agrees a pasture full of ground ivy in bloom — aka Creeping Charlie — can be a bucolic masterpiece.

The pasture is a dining room for your livestock and they generally don’t like the bitter taste of ground ivy. So, if your pastures are for grazing, you need to control the ground ivy. Pasture Pro Herbicide eliminates more than 125 species of tough-listed broadleaf weeds and brush, including ground ivy.

One gallon treats two to four acres, and when used alone and the sprays have dried, there’s no waiting between treatment and grazing. The sightseers might be disappointed that the pretty purple flowers are gone, but your horses and livestock will love you for it.

What about purple nutsedge (the tall, spiky-looking weed sticking out of your lawn)? It may be fun to pull out by hand, making that satisfying “pop!” and appearing to be out and gone forever, but all that does is make it angry! If you don’t get all the underground tubers that nutsedge leaves behind, they’ll grow into even more spiky things sticking out of your lawn.

If you’d rather not deal with angry nutsedge and its grassy cousin, kyllingas, Trimec Platinum All-In-One Weed Control can help manage more than 250 weeds.