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Fertility for Thought
No matter how often you add gas to your car, it’ll always run out and need more to operate. To a certain extent, bermudagrass is like a car: If you want it to perform, you have to feed it – sometimes a...
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The 5 Toughest Weeds to Control
Golf course superintendents often differ on which pests are hardest to control – insects, weeds, diseases, birds and four-legged critters. Within each group, there are often disagreements over which...
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Save Time and Money by Using the Spot Treatment Approach
There are basically three approaches to pest control on golf courses. The first is perhaps best described as the back-in-the-day approach where blanket applications (aka “spray and pray”) were made to...
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3 Steps to Control Unwanted Plants
Control of unwanted plants in clubhouse landscaping, tee box plantings and other non-turf areas on the golf course is vital. Not only are weeds invaders and competitors with desirable ornamentals, they...
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Treating Trees with Foundational Turf Strategies
Pest control is a category of much attention in the golf course maintenance budget and labor schedule. Regardless of whether it’s pathogens, weeds, nematodes or insects, all capture superintendents’...
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How to Identify and Control Perennial Pests
Unlike certain years where sod webworms, billbugs and stem rust are hit and miss, maybe rising to a damaging level and maybe not, grassy and broadleaf weeds are the one pest on the golf course that can...
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4 Procedures To Get New Plantings Off to a Good Start
Making decisions can be hard if we lack adequate information to make good selections. As attention is given to plant material choices on the golf course, spend some time focusing on pertinent factors...
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Keep Golf Play in Mind When Incorporating Ornamentals Into Landscape
Ornamentals add so much to the overall enjoyment of the golfing experience. They provide various vibrant and subtle colors, vertical scale, differing textures and depth to an otherwise medium green...
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Resistance Management Requires Cultural Practices, Chemical Rotation
Pests are a given on a golf course. While it may be tempting to think of certain golfers as pests – volumes can be written on this subject – the real ones are the lower-order organisms that cause a...
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Tweaking Tee Box Areas For A Better Golf Experience And More Efficient...
In many ways, the tee box and its layout is the beginning of the golfer experience. From the golfer’s perspective, after they arrive in the parking lot, pay their greens fee and hit a few putts on the...
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Mowing Height Management
It’s the most basic of cultural practices and yet one of the most complicated. Mowing isn’t anywhere close to running out to the first tee with a Lawn Boy bagger and pulling the ripcord. Unfortunately,...
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