Turfgrass Management Midterm

4 most common cool season grasses

Blue grass, fescue, bent grass, rye grass

Application for blue grass

Athletic fields, home lawns

Application for fescue

Community lawns, commercial areas, organic lawns, other areas of low maintenance

Application for bent grass

Golf courses only

Application for rye grass

Nurse grass

Blue grass characteristics

Blades have folded vernation with a boat shaped tip. Dark green color. Rhizomes are present.

Fescue characteristics

Rolled vernation with pointed leaf tips. Fine fescues have fine leaves. Medium green color. Rhizomes may be present, but some varieties bunch.

Ryegrass characteristics

Leaves have folded vernation at bud with pointed leaf tip. Dark green color with shiny back side leaves.

Bent grass characteristics

Rolled vernation with pointed leaf tip. Medium green color. Stoloniferous grass.

When do you treat for grubs

Mid to late summer because they’re smaller therefore require less chemicals for control

Four insects which cause turfgrass damage in spring and fall

Army worm, European chafer grub, Japanese beetle grub, may beetle grub, oriental beetle grub

Insects that cause summer damage to turfgrass

Sod webworm, chinch bug, pill bug

Four monocot turfgrass weeds

Crabgrass, foxtail, nutsedge, annual bluegrass

Eight dicot turfgrass weeds

chickweed, common geranium, dandelion, ground ivy, corn speedwall, spotted spurge, wild violet, woodsorrel,