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Turf Fact Sheets

  • A Guide to Weed Life Cycles

  • Annual Bluegrass Weevil Monitoring Techniques

  • Anthracnose Foliar Blight and Basal Rot

  • Anthracnose- Why is it so Difficult to Control?

  • Ants in Lawns

  • Assessing the Role of Nematodes in Putting Green Decline

  • Bacterial Wilt of Annual Bluegrass on Golf Courses

  • Beneficial Lawn Insects

  • Billbugs in Lawns

  • Biology and Management of Crabgrass

  • Broadleaf Plantain in Lawns

  • Brown Patch

  • Buckhorn Plantain in Lawns

  • Can Merit™ or Mach 2™ be Justified in an IPM Program?

  • Characteristics of Kentucky Bluegrass Cultivars

  • Chinch Bugs

  • Common Blue Violet in Lawns

  • Common Chickweed in Lawns

  • Compaction and Cultivation

  • Current Insecticide Approaches for White Grub Control

  • Cutworms

  • Dandelions in Lawns

  • Dead Spot on Bentgrass

  • Disease Management for Home Lawns

  • Does Selecting the Best Turfgrass Varieties Really Matter?

  • Dollar Spot

  • Drop Spreader Calibration Procedures

  • Endophyte-Enhanced Grasses

  • Fairy Ring and Localized Dry Spot

  • Gray Leaf Spot of Ryegrass and Tall Fescue

  • Ground Ivy in Lawns

  • Growing Turf Under Shaded Conditions

  • Guidelines for the Use of Chlorothalonil for Anthracnose on Putting Greens in Massachusetts

  • Integrated Pest Management for Turf

  • Late Season Establishment Considerations

  • Lawn Mowing

  • Leaf Spot Diseases of Turf

  • Major Winter Injuries of Cool-Season Turfgrass in New England: Understanding, Prevention and Recovery

  • Management of Compaction: Coring

  • Management Tips to Improve Turfgrass Drought Survival

  • Maximizing Irrigation Efficiency and Water Conservation

  • Monitoring Lawn Insects

  • Moss in Lawns

  • Necrotic Ring Spot of Poa Species

  • Nematodes on Golf Greens

  • Neonicotinoid Turf Insecticides and Pollinators

  • Plant Parasitic Nematodes of Putting Green Turf

  • Pythium Diseases of Turf

  • Pythium Induced Root Dysfunction

  • Red Thread and Pink Patch

  • Rotary Spreader Calibration Procedures

  • Seeding Rate Considerations

  • Selection of Grasses

  • Sod Webworms

  • Soil pH and Liming

  • Soil Sampling for Meaningful Results

  • Speedwells in Lawns

  • Summer Patch of Bluegrasses

  • Take-All Patch of Bentgrasses

  • The Snow Molds

  • Turf Irrigation and Water Conservation

  • Turf Irrigation and Water Conservation Series

  • Turf Maintenance Levels: Stress and Expectations

  • Turfgrass Response to Water Deficits

  • Understanding a Turf Fertilizer Label

  • Understanding a Turfgrass Seed Label

  • Vole Damage to Lawns

  • Waitea Patch (Brown Ring Patch)

  • Water Conservation for Landscape Turf

  • What is Thatch?

  • What's Wrong With My Lawn?

  • White Clover in Lawns

  • White Grub Identification

  • Why Do Insecticides Fail?

  • Yellow Patch and Rhizoctonia Leaf and Sheath Spot Diseases of Turfgrasses

Publications & Resources

  • Printed Publications
  • Best Management Practices
  • Nutrient Management Information
  • Professional Turf IPM Guide
  • Fact Sheets
  • References
  • Useful Links
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  • Pesticide Resources

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