Indaziflam on warm-season native grasses in rough

Native warm-season grasses are popular choices for low-maintenance rough on golf courses. They require minimal inputs to maintain but still require some maintenance. Annual grasses and invasive plants can be problematic within these systems, so herbicides often are needed for ...

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What we know about bacterial diseases of turfgrasses

Concerns about bacterial etiolation (Figure 1) and decline exploded in the golf course industry more than five years ago. While etiolation had been observed for years, the abnormal elongation sometimes observed in putting greens usually was an unsightly occurrence that ...

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Chemicals control large patch, depending on deposition

Seasonal large patch (Rhizoctonia solani) epidemics are observed on zoysiagrass fairways in Tennessee each spring and fall. Golf courses with a history of large patch often will budget for two to three fairway fungicide applications. However, disease breakthrough commonly is ...

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Being proactive on protozoa

A superintendent who hasn’t encountered protozoa-related sprinkler head plugging can count his or her blessings. I may have been the first to encounter the problem in 1986, when my employer wanted to pioneer the use of effluent for golf course ...

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Low-input fairway species for the cool-humid region

The availability of water to properly maintain turf is one of the biggest resource challenges superintendents presently face, and it will present additional challenges for decades. Further, as superintendents evaluate their budgets and maintenance programs to save money, grasses that ...

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