Stop weeds before they emerge with corn gluten meal

Pre-emergent herbicides can inhibit dandelion seeds and other seeds from germinating, but won’t kill taproots or established plants. Photo by Herbert Goetsch on Unsplash by Connie Oswald Stofko Stop weeds before they even pop out of the ground–that’s what pre-emergent herbicides do. Pre-emergent herbicides act on seeds at the germination stage. Corn gluten meal is an organic pre-emergent herbicide. There are synthetic pre-emergent herbicides, too. These can work well on grass seed and broad-leaf seeds. However, like every herbicide, they…