Merrick Mondays: Your Questions Answered! – 3/30/26

by Owen Jacobs | Mar 30, 2026 | Golf, Lawn & Landscape, Merrick Mondays

"If my yard is covered in crabgrass, what is the best fertilizer to spread this time of the year to help get that nasty green stuff out of there?" Crabgrass can takeover a lawn or lawn area and be unsightly. This question came from a person in Pennsylvania so I will...

Summer Nasty and Tough: Foxtails Part 1

by a3c0657a_admin | Jul 12, 2021 | Golf, Lawn & Landscape, Sports Turf, Turf Tips

Grasses fall into two general categories based on physiology: cool-season (C-3) and warm-season (C-4).  We can further sub-divide these weeds as annual and perennial. Among the most common C-4 annuals include crabgrass, goosegrass and foxtails, and the most...

Understanding Moss In Lawns and Its Management : Attack; Fail; and Accept

by a3c0657a_admin | May 6, 2021 | Lawn & Landscape, Turf Tips

Mosses are primitive plants. There are many moss species, however, few if any true botanist in all of North America remain who can identify different moss species.  Silvery thread (Bryum argenteum) is the most common species found in association with turf...

Rough Bluegrass Can Be Your Worst Lawn Nightmare

by a3c0657a_admin | Apr 23, 2021 | Lawn & Landscape, Turf Tips

Rough bluegrass (aka Poa trivialis, Poa triv., roughstalk bluegrass) is an extremely common, perennial grass weed in lawns and golf courses in the mid-Atlantic. Rough bluegrass looks like Kentucky bluegrass in that leaves have a boat-shaped tip and there are...

Winter Annual Broadleaf Weeds Bring Color and A Spring Wake-up Call

by a3c0657a_admin | Apr 6, 2021 | Golf, Lawn & Landscape, Turf Tips

Most turf professionals walk with their heads-down, scouting for the appearance of something usual or out of place. One of the first indicators that it may be time to get the sprayers and mowers out, is the sudden appearance of flowering winter annual broadleaf weeds....

Blistering Heat, Ferocious Chlorosis and Diseases: Lawns and Sod

by a3c0657a_admin | Aug 6, 2020 | Lawn & Landscape

It has been a tumultuous year with COVID-19, civil unrest and anarchy. The heat, Bay Bridge renovation and COVID strangulation of our economy has caused unprecedented problems. Intense heat, drought, and thunderstorms have greatly added to the misery of our turf...