When spring weather finally arrives, it means timing is crucial for making applications. The GDD tracker is an excellent tool for the timing of these events.

Spring brings many things, including zoysia patch, spring dead spot, brown ring patch, and fairy ring. Here's how to treat for the diseases.

Annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) damage, a yellowing or browning of the affected plant, can happen very fast, almost overnight in most cases. People who have never dealt with ABW can often misdiagnose its symptoms as wilt stress or even anthracnose.

Adding pond management services to your business not only enhances the property of your customers but is a great source of renewable business revenue for you.

With 20 locations and a presence in 10 states, we may seem like a large company, but we pride ourselves in preserving the small company feel that we had when we first started in 2001.

After you blow the dust off the sprayer, you can start filling it up with a variety of essential fungicides, wetting agents, and foliar fertilizers for spring disease prevention.

One of the most frequently asked questions and sources of confusion we encounter surround the topic of seeding and use of crabgrass control.

A hard-working, 6th-grade schoolteacher founded the company 47 years ago as a side job to supplement his teaching income. Since then, it has grown from a single-person mowing operation to a 40-person, 11-crew business in peak season. The Yard Works has built this success by adding value to both their customers and their employees.

There are so many components to achieving an aesthetically pleasing, safe, and predictable playing surface that you might be asking yourself, “Where should I even start?” Advanced Turf Solutions’s Smart START Program is your answer. Smart START, which stands for Site Visit, Testing, Analysis, Recommendations, and Training, is the concept of using science-based testing to make the most accurate recommendations for your athletic fields.

Here are some true and false scenarios to help make understanding mechanical rolling an easy check-off this season.

Jamie Mehringer, VP of Sports Turf at Advanced Turf Solutions, explains how to properly add infield mix to an infield in easy to follow steps.

It’s an exciting time of the year—temperatures are increasing, birds are coming back north, and trees are thinking about producing leaves. For some trees though, producing leaves with a normal level of chlorophyll (the pigment that gives leaves their green color) can be very difficult. We have two things to blame: soil pH and plant genetics.

Turn spring lawn and landscape challenges into opportunities with these tips on fertilization, seeding, and soil testing.

Several goals can be accomplished by the basic task of edging an infield. Two categories encompass edging an infield: in-season and pre/post-season.

Find out how to wake up your customers' landscape beds for spring with these products and best practices.

1. Improve playability Eliminate the chances of bad bounces and player footing/cutting by identifying and prioritizing problem areas. 2. Field safety Save yourself from hidden dangers or liabilities. An evaluation can tell if a baseball field is not level before the unsafe conditions cause harm to a player. 3. Find solutions to unknown challenges Evaluations give […]

Turf loss during wintertime, or winterkill, can be caused by several issues.

Lawn care companies come in many sizes with a wide variety of challenges. Z-Sprays can fix many of these challenges, but, with such a great selection of machines to meet your needs, how do you know which L.T. Rich machine is right for your company? Use this handy guide to help select the perfect Z-Spray.

A lot goes into a Poa annua seedhead suppression program on greens. Here's what you need to know about the new application timing and what you can do if you missed the first, late fall Proxy spray.

There have been many talks about different herbicide-resistant strands of Poa annua in warm-season turf over the last few years. This has been primarily further south of our region. However, I have seen what we believe was resistance in Louisville, Ky. This case was not confirmed, but all indications pointed to resistant strands.

We know spring is on its way when the pre-emergent discussion has started. What should you know or remember about pre-emergent to make applications a worry-free process? We’ll tell you here. Two of the most popular pre-emergent products out there today are prodiamine and dithiopyr. You can apply prodiamine and dithiopyr in the spring or […]

Crabgrass is one of the first warm-season grassy weeds to arrive in the springtime and this is due to its ability to germinate at a lower soil temperature than other warm season grassy weeds (around 58 degrees Fahrenheit). Note: the existence of crabgrass is a symptom of poor fertility, soil, and watering problems. Correct these […]

Avoid losing sales with eight pricing strategies.

If you are considering a career in the turf industry, there may be more options than you think.

It's that time of year again; golf course superintendents with warm season turf are loading the sprayer for broadleaf and annual weed control. To ensure the applications go smoothly, keep these guidelines in mind.

As golf course superintendents prepare for the upcoming season, there are many challenges facing them before the season even starts.

With drought conditions going back to last year, and the combination of extreme cold we've seen recently with relatively little snow cover throughout much of the Midwest, athletic field managers or anyone who maintains Bermuda have been growing a bit nervous about how their turf will wake up come spring. Should lawn care operators share their concern for cool season turf?

Maintaining healthy turf and ornamental beds that are close to parking lots and roads can be difficult when ice melt and road salt are used in the winter. Find out what you can do to offset the harmful effects of salt and ice melt.

As things slow outside, here are several things to keep busy this winter.

Next to “Is that grass real?” the other question asked most frequently is “What do you do in the off-season?” Here is an off-season checklist to know what to do: Rest. Your turf gets an off-season and so should you. In fact, that is the best thing about being a groundskeeper in Indiana. Thank you, […]

Indianapolis news channel RTV6 interviewed Sales and Product Development Manager Mark Sybouts about the differences between salt and ice melt and the best practices when using these products. Watch the segment to learn more.

Learn the answers to the 3 biggest myths about ice melt.

Traditionally, pre-emergent crabgrass control is applied in the spring. Even more traditionally, it is applied about the same time as the forsythia blooms, which is usually mid to late April in Central Indiana. However, with today’s technologies, tradition is no longer the norm.

Are you using liquid ice melt for commercial snow and ice management? If not, you are missing out on a valuable tool with lots of advantages.

When choosing fungicides, one needs to take into consideration the possibility of the fungus developing resistance to that particular fungicide. The development of resistance is more likely in some fungicides than others.

The line, “if you build it, they will come” is well known from the movie Field of Dreams. I like to apply a variation of this line to my methodology for growing healthy turf. If you build healthy soil (“it”) then what “comes” of this practice is healthy turf. Or in other words, “If you build it, then it will come.”

What do you talk about when you don't know what to talk about? Well, the weather of course. So, let's talk about the weather. For something we have no control over, it consumes a lot of our attention.

Clubs have experienced increased memberships and rounds after interseeding Bluegrass into Bermuda. It has allowed clubs to renovate from a warm season course to a cool season feel, with little or no disturbance.

fter ending a 15-year career as a golf course superintendent and assistant and thinking her aerifying days were over, Megan VanArsdale accepted a newly created position as the grounds director for Boyle County Schools and was pulled right back in.

Up here in my neck of the woods, technically it might be the armpit of the woods (geographically speaking), but I digress. Anyhow, around here in the Midwest, many of us will be spraying later than usual this season, which means there will be considerably more cool weather herbicide applications than in a typical fall. […]