Around the Turf Scene

Test your knowledge of common phenological events with our interactive quiz to explore nature’s seasonal indicators and learn about their significance.

We asked Paul Giordano, Ph.D., from Bayer’s Green Solutions Team, a few questions about the annual…

The desire to play sports all year long has increased drastically in recent years. Sports knows…

Is your turf looking a little thin or damaged? It might be time to plan a spring overseeding. Check out these three tips for success!

I believe over the past 20-30 years the horticultural market has overused glyphosate, therefore making it less effective due to herbicide sensitivity/resistance. I want to preserve this chemistry for future generations and hence recommend other chemical options.

Phenology is the study of naturally recurring biological events in plant and insect life cycles. You can use things like plant bud break or bloom time to predict when certain weeds will emerge or when certain insects will hatch.

Let’s review some of the key spring applications that will make or break on how your season will go.

There are plenty of pre and post-emergence herbicides to control crabgrass in cool-season turfgrass, but they all have certain intervals when one cannot seed. Here several sports field scenarios and tips to fit the herbicides around the seeding windows.

If you are monitoring growing degree day accumulations to plan your spring Proxy sprays, the above-normal winter temperatures thus far have your spring Proxy spray fast approaching.