If you’re a homeowner who takes pride in your lawn, you know how big a headache weeds are.

To help you achieve the yard of your dreams, Exmark has partnered with Jason Creel, the owner of Alabama Lawn Pros, on a new video offering tips and insights into tackling weeds.

“I don’t endorse a simple spray-and-pray strategy. Identifying weeds and understanding their life cycle is essential to using the right product at the right time and in the right amount,” says Creel.

As broken down in the video, here are the major categories of weeds to be aware of:

Grassy weeds, like crab grass and goose grass may look like regular turf grass, but they’re not nearly as uniform.

Broadleaf weeds, like dandelion and clover, stand out with their wide leaves, bright flowers and seed heads.

Sedges, like nutsedge, looks like grass, but instead have a solid, triangular stem without nodes.

Weeds can also be categorized by their life cycles:

Some weeds, like spurge, are annual weeds. They sprout, grow and die in one season. Then there are perennial weeds, like oxalis, also known as yellow wood sorrel, or nutsedge, and they come back year after year from that same root clump. It’s also important to know if you’re dealing with warm or cool season weeds. Warm season weeds germinate in the spring and die out in the fall and cool season weeds are typically going to germinate in the fall, mature the following spring and die out as the weather gets hot in the summer.

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