How to Use chickweed in a Sentence

chickweed

noun

• While ushering the good stuff in, chickweed flushes the bad stuff out.
  — Christine Buckley, Bon Appetit, 19 July 2017
• There is always a need this time of year to pull enough of the chickweed so that your vegetables and shorter flowers are not overrun by the stuff.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
• Henbit and chickweed filled in the open ground in cut flower and perennial gardens.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 2 Jan. 2020
• In early March, Joey Staub and I mucked our way through thickets of chickweed to reach a patch of scraggly late-winter collards.
  — Jonathan Kauffman, Bon Appétit, 13 Apr. 2022
• Dimension and Amaze are designed for weedy grasses but do a good job on such broadleaf weeds as henbit and chickweed.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• Oddly enough, once your plants get large enough to beat the chickweed, the stuff actually acts as a pretty decent cover crop.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2021
• The wildflower blooms in May, mixed in with white chickweed and purple violets, New Jersey’s state flower.
  — USA TODAY, 12 May 2017
• Make an additional pass over the lawn to control broadleafed weeds such as henbit, chickweed, dandelions and clover.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 5 Sep. 2017
• The result is that broadleaf weeds such as henbit, chickweed, thistle, bedstraw and dandelions are prospering.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 20 Feb. 2020
• Grasses and leaves of golden rod, chickweed, smartweed, leaves and shoots from woody plants like blackberry, raspberry, and multiflora rose.
  — Tom Keer, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2020
• Last among the common winter annual weeds, is the white-flowering common chickweed (Stellaria media), another tiny-leafed plant that hugs the ground.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2018
• Scarlet pimpernel has a prostrate and spreading habit and without blooms is often mistaken for chickweed.
  — Arkansas Online, 22 Mar. 2021
• Mulches applied to the proper depth will help reduce problems with annual weeds that grow from seeds, such as chamberbitters, spurge, annual bluegrass and chickweed.
  — NOLA.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• This is much better than putting down nitrogen fertilizer which encourages chickweed to thrive.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
• Common chickweed can transmit viral diseases that damage beets, cucumbers, peas, tomatoes and turnips.
  — Margaret Roach, New York Times, 8 May 2020
• Literally just a nanosecond of light is enough to trigger chickweed into germination.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
• Apply Gallery to prevent germination of clover, dandelions, henbit and chickweed.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 8 Aug. 2017
• There are homemade potato chips freckled with nutritional yeast; a vivid herb salad loaded with red orach, chickweed and oxalis flowers; and a statement on the brief menu declaring that all of the ingredients except the cheese are local and organic.
  — Rebecca Flint Marx, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• Wellspring has four high tunnels (an unheated, covered structure) and two greenhouses and still produces crops such as kale, chard, spinach, lettuce, scallions, beets, radicchio and a few specialty crops like chickweed and claytonia.
  — Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2020
• Apply preemergence herbicides to your lawn now to prevent cool season annual weeds like chickweed, henbit, sticker weed and annual bluegrass from growing in your lawn.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 30 Sep. 2020
• With its appealing flavor of nutty corn silk, spring chickweed is a delicacy best appreciated raw.
  — Marie Viljoen/saveur, Popular Science, 19 Apr. 2020
• Scarlet pimpernel is also sometimes called poison chickweed.
  — Arkansas Online, 22 Mar. 2021
• Frequent edible garden weeds include dandelion, chickweed, plantain, clover, chicory, lamb’s quarters, sorrel and violets.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 31 Mar. 2020
• Frequent edible garden weeds include dandelion, chickweed, plantain, clover, chicory, lamb’s quarters, sorrel, and violets.
  — Popular Science, 8 Apr. 2020

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