1. The document compares different herbicides, fabric discs, and mulches for preventing weeds in nursery containers containing azalea and winterberry holly plants. 2. Herbicides provided good weed control but sometimes caused minor injury to plants, while fabric discs and mulches provided comparable or better weed control with fewer issues of plant injury. 3. Overall, fabric discs provided excellent plant vigor and weed prevention comparable to herbicides, though some azalea deaths occurred at one site for unknown reasons, while pine bark and cocoa hull mulches also gave good results.

8. RESULTS: PLANT VIGOR

9. AZALEA Vigor (0-10): Windsor 1998 a a a a a a a b a a a a ab ab a b

10. ILEX Vigor (0-10): Windsor 1998 a a a a a a a b ab bc a ab bc a a c

11. AZALEA Vigor (0-10): Windsor 1999 a a a a a a a b a a a a a a a b

12. ILEX Vigor (0-10): Windsor 1999 b ab ab a ab a ab c a a a a a a a b

13. AZALEA & ILEX Vigor: Windsor 2000 a a a a a a a b a a a a a a a a

14. AZALEA Vigor (0-10): Madison 1998 a a a a a a a b b a a a ab c ab c

15. ILEX Vigor (0-10): Madison 1998 ab b a a a ab a ab c abc a bc a a ab c

17. RESULTS: WEED CONTROL

18. GROUNDSEL (per pot): Windsor 1998 a e d e cd c b e

19. TOTAL WEEDS (per pot): Windsor 1998 a d b d cd bc b b

20. TOTAL WEEDS (per pot): Windsor 1998 a c c c bc ab a ab

21. TOTAL WEEDS (per pot): Windsor 1999 a c c bc ab ab a c

22. TOTAL WEEDS (per pot): Windsor 1999 ab e de e bc cd cd a

23. TOTAL WEEDS (per pot): Windsor 2000 a cd d cd ab a a b c

24. RED MAPLE Seedlings: Madison 1998 a c b c c c a b

25. PEARLWORT (% Area): Madison 1998 a d c d d d b d

26. PEARLWORT (% Area): Madison 1999 a b b b b b a b