Summer stress temperatures arrive; Drought symptoms arrive in a flash; Leaf spot diseases prevalent in lawns this season; Patch diseases and the role of rhizosphere pH in their suppression.                                  Weather There summer blows! Like a sudden whale burst from […]

Spring prep is done; Lawns: Seedhead season; Straight lines normally don’t = disease. Golf Putting Greens: Dollar spot rings in the season; Anthracnose inoculum building and soilborne pathogens lurking. Registration for Purdue Turfgrass & Landscape Field Day open!  Weather The 2024 spring oven must be gas lit because it preheated quickly. This spring remained 2-3 […]

Highlights: Wet start to spring = lawns – powdery mildew & fret over wet mower tires; focus on soilborne diseases on golf putting greens. Weather Forgoing May in the popular poem, April showers along with warm temperatures have spurred many spring flowers. Up through middle Indiana, forsythia has fast given way to blooming dandelions, henbit […]

Highlights: Spring 2024 is weeks ahead of schedule; lawn preparation; soil temperature status; fungicide timing for dollar spot and soilborne diseases; yellow patch observations; short survey request.                                                         […]