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Cultural Practices

Characteristics of Kentucky Bluegrass Cultivars
Compaction and Cultivation
Does Selecting the Best Turfgrass Varieties Really Matter?
Drop Spreader Calibration Procedures
Endophyte-Enhanced Grasses
Growing Turf Under Shaded Conditions
Integrated Pest Management for Turf
Late Season Establishment Considerations
Lawn Mowing
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
Rotary Spreader Calibration Procedures
Seeding Rate Considerations
Selection of Grasses
Soil pH and Liming
Soil Sampling for Meaningful Results
Turf Irrigation and Water Conservation
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
What is Thatch?
What's Wrong With My Lawn?

Diseases

Anthracnose Foliar Blight and Basal Rot
Anthracnose- Why is it so Difficult to Control?
Bacterial Wilt of Annual Bluegrass
Brown Patch
Dead Spot on Bentgrasses
Disease Management for Home Lawns
Dollar Spot
Fairy Ring and Localized Dry Spot
Gray Leaf Spot of Ryegrass and Tall Fescue
Guidelines for the Use of Chlorothalonil for Anthracnose on Putting Greens in Massachusetts
Leaf Spot Diseases of Turf
Necrotic Ring Spot of Poa Species
Pythium Diseases of Turf
Pythium Induced Root Dysfunction
Red Thread and Pink Patch
Summer Patch of Bluegrasses
Take-All Patch of Bentgrasses
The Snow Molds
Waitea Patch (Brown Ring Patch)
Yellow Patch and Rhizoctonia Leaf and Sheath Spot Diseases of Turfgrasses

Insects and Mites

Annual Bluegrass Weevil Monitoring Techniques
Ants in Lawns
Beneficial Lawn Insects
Billbugs in Lawns
Can Merit™ or Mach 2™ be Justified in an IPM Program?
Chinch Bugs
Current Insecticide Approaches for White Grub Control
Cutworms
Monitoring Lawn Insects
Neonicotinoid Turf Insecticides and Pollinators
Sod Webworms
White Grub Identification
Why Do Insecticides Fail?

Nematodes

Assessing the Role of Nematodes in Putting Green Decline
Nematodes on Golf Greens
Plant Parasitic Nematodes of Putting Green Turf

Soil Management

Turfgrass Response to Water Deficits

Water

Turf Irrigation and Water Conservation
Turf Irrigation and Water Conservation Series
Water Conservation for Landscape Turf

Weeds

A Guide to Weed Life Cycles
Biology and Management of Crabgrass
Broadleaf Plantain in Lawns
Buckhorn Plantain in Lawns
Common Blue Violet in Lawns
Common Chickweed in Lawns
Dandelions in Lawns
Ground Ivy in Lawns
Moss in Lawns
Speedwells in Lawns
White Clover in Lawns

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