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.