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132

Language

English

Description

Turfgrass is used on everything from athletic fields, golf courses, and parks, to lawns, sod farms, and roadsides. Unfortunately, information on weed management for professionals maintaining these areas has often been inaccurate or out of date, and applicators are frequently unaware of the most effective methods for controlling weeds in turf. Written by experts in the field and featuring insights from contributors from sixteen states across the US, the 2024 edition of Turfgrass Weed Control for Professionals was developed to provide science-based information for those working in the field. It contains information about turfgrass management, weed biology and management, more than 350 photographs to assist in the identification of a variety of weeds, information on how herbicides work, research-based information on the efficacy of herbicides on target weeds, the use of plant-growth regulators, and other useful tips for those managing turfgrasses. First published in 2012 and annually updated to include the most current information, Turfgrass Weed Control for Professionals has long served as a valuable guide for applicators looking to improve weed control, improve integrated weed management, and reduce maintenance costs for their businesses.

ISBN

9781626712157

Publication Date

Winter 11-15-2025

Publisher

Purdue University Press

City

West Lafayette

Keywords

lawn care, pesticides, restricted-use pesticides, fertilizers, plant competition, hand-pulling weeds, cultivating healthy turf, irrigation practices, weed seed, fine fescues, tall fescue, slender creeping red fescue, hard fescue, strong creeping red fescue, bermudagrass, buffalograss, rushes, lilies, spiderworts, annuals, biennials, perennials, weed-control programs, indicator weeds, acidic soil, alkaline soil, turf habitat, selective and nonselective herbicides, herbicide mode of action, herbicide mechanism of action, preemergence and postemergence herbicides, herbicide resistance, herbicide antagonism, chemical incompatibility, synergism with herbicides, weather effects on applications of herbicides, warm-season turfgrasses, fumigants for turfgrass renovation, plant-growth regulators, annual bluegrass, rough bluegrass, broadleaf plantain, buckhorn plantain, bull thistle, Canada thistle, common dandelion, common plantain, common purslane, crabgrass, creeping bentgrass, creeping charlie, dallisgrass, false-green kyllinga, field paspalum, fountain grass, goosegrass, ground ivy, Japanese stiltgrass, knotweed, lespedeza, moss, musk thistle, narrowleaf plantain, nimblewill, orchardgrass, prostrate knotweed, prostrate spurge, purple nutsedge, purslane, quackgrass, sandbur, spurge, white clover, wild garlic, wild onion, wild violets, windmillgrass, woodsorrel, yellow nutsedge, yellow woodsorrel, zoysiagrass

Disciplines

Agricultural and Resource Economics | Agriculture | Horticulture

Comments

Open access publication of this title is supported by Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies.

Turfgrass Weed Control for Professionals, 2024

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