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Turfgrass industry in Kansas includes:
home lawns, institutional and industrial grounds, sod production,
golf
courses, athletic fields and other recreational turf, parks,
roadsides, airports, and cemeteries.
Turf management involves selecting:
the right grass, proper mowing, watering, fertilizing, and
controlling thatch.
,To plan a good weed control program, you must:
identify the desirable turfgrass,
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identify the existing weeds, and
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combine pest control with good management practices.
annual weeds complete their life cycle in:
less than one year
Examples of summer annual weeds common to turfgrass:
broadleaf weeds, knotweed, spurge, purslane, (grass weeds)
crabgrass, goosegrass, barnyardgrass, foxtail
Winter annuals are common in new turfgrass and include
common chickweed, shepherd's purse, henbit, downy brome annual
bluegrass
Biennial weeds normally occur at the same time as
perennial broadleaf weeds
,Biennial weeds example
roundlef mallow and wild carrot
Perennial weeds, broadleaf weeds include:
dandelion, wild garlic, plantain, mouse-ear chickweed, curly dock
Perennial grass weeds include:
bermudagrass, bentgrass, quackgrass, niblewill, windmill grass
Broadleaf weeds
Several postemergence herbicides are used to selectively control
annual, biennial and perennial broadleaf weeds in turfgrasses.
grass weeds
Control of annual grasses is best achieved with preemergence
herbicides for general infestations and spot treatment with
postemergence herbicides for localized infestations.
Perennial grass weeds are the most difficult to control.
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, Withhold spring fertilization of warm-season:
zoysia, buffalo, and Bermuda until mid-May; do not fertilize them after
mid- August.
Barnyard grass:
A coarse warm-season annual grass with a flattened stem, especially
near the base. Lower portion of the plant tends to be reddish
purple. The seed
head branches into six to eight short compact segments. Ligule and
auricles are absent.
Bermudagrass
Warm-season perennial that produces both rhizomes and stolons
that lie flat and creep across an area, rooting at the nodes.
Flowering culms,
flattened erect or ascending 4 to 15 inches tall; ligule features a
conspicuous ring of white hairs. A serious pest of cool-season
grasses.