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Recent walks around many landscapes revealed an old pest that I had thought was diminishing. The numbers this year are...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designated February as National Pesticide Safety Education Month....

The motivation for this post comes on the heels of the recent ban on the Callery pear. Pyrus calleryana is an...

The label that comes with a pesticide product is a legal document and must be followed explicitly, otherwise there is a...

Different weather patterns associated with fall are conducive to different issues in the landscape. Although fall isn’t...

Soil testing isn’t just for problem areas–it should be performed on a routine basis to determine actual needs for soil...

Managing soil health is critical to root development and plant performance. Only by submitting samples for lab analysis...

Fall brings cooler weather and a change of colors in the tree canopy. While the most obvious are deciduous trees...

There are a number of factors which contribute to thatch production. Some of the simplest are turfgrass varieties....

Fall comes with a different set of property management practices. Everything from late season seeding, emerged and...

Fall typically brings cooler and wetter conditions, although you wouldn’t know it if you looked at the drought monitor....

As weather patterns turn dry, more sensitive plants begin to show symptoms of stress. Annuals, herbaceous perennials,...

After strategy and execution, the wait is on. Weather conditions become milder, and there should be plenty of time for...

You spent the season looking at your turf thinking, “Soon, very soon,” and that time is here. You were able to stave...

Over 68% of the country is still experiencing some semblance of precipitation shortage ranging from (D0) abnormally dry...

Phenology is the study of life cycle events of living organisms on Earth. These findings are based on growing degree...

Along with alkaline water sources, water hardness can also be a mix water quality issue. The effects of hard water,...

On the way to your first job site of the day, you let your brain wander for just a few seconds, then it is GO time. But...

The group of organisms called lichens consist of somewhere between 13,000 and 30,000 species worldwide. These are...

They go by many names: super-absorbent polymers, co-poly gels, hydrogels, and polyacrylamides (PAM) to name a few. They...

Wetting agents have long been considered vital to the management of high-quality turf, but their actual function may...

In a perfect world, water could be applied at the rate and timing at which a plant needs it in order to mitigate...

Nearly 70% of the US is somewhere in D0 – D4 stages of drought. This is not considering dryer vs. more tropical or...

Being irrigation experts, we all have a pretty firm grasp on evapotranspiration, but let's talk about it more from a...