It Helps To Look Back When Planning Ahead: Part 2: Lawns

by a3c0657a_admin | Jan 18, 2020 | Lawn & Landscape, Turf Tips

Lawn care operators (LCO’s) encounter similar problems from year to year. In each year, however, weather patterns always are the “wild card.”  Weather conditions often explain the nature of pest activity, the erratic behavior of pesticides,...

Malicious Moles and Other Turf Mounders

by a3c0657a_admin | Oct 25, 2019 | Golf, Lawn & Landscape, Pest Control, Turf Tips

Most turf nerds, like myself, are baffled and amazed by the incredible strength and endurance of relatively small animal pests, which  create mounds of excavated soil in lawns and golf turfs. Major mounding pests include moles (sometimes shrews and...

Tired of your dog tearing up the yard?

by a3c0657a_admin | Sep 19, 2019 | Lawn & Landscape, Products

Try using Traqmatz!  

Japanese Stiltgrass: A Growing Invasive Weed Problem on Golf Courses and In Lawns

by a3c0657a_admin | Jun 28, 2019 | Golf, Lawn & Landscape

Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum) also is known as Japanese grass and Napalese browntop. It is a warm-season annual that germinates in early spring, a few weeks prior to the time that crabgrass and yellow foxtail emerge. In non-mown areas it grows tall,...

Contrasting Colors In Winter Dormant Lawns Often Signal Trouble

by a3c0657a_admin | Feb 25, 2019 | Lawn & Landscape

Click to read Dr. Pete's article : Contrasting Colors In Winter Dormant Lawns Often Signal Trouble

Spring Seeding Lawns, Roughs & Other Turf Sites

by a3c0657a_admin | Feb 27, 2018 | Lawn & Landscape

Click to read Dr. Pete's Turf Tips: Spring Seeding Lawns, Roughs & Other Turf Sites: An Outline of Often Ignored Basics