Cultivation and Topdressing Requirements for Thatch Management in A and G Bentgrasses and Creeping Bluegrass

HortScience

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1227-1231

  Stier, John C ^a   Hollman, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

A 4; Agrostis stolonifera; Core aeration; DW 184; G 2; Penncross; Poa annua var. reptans; Thatch

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DISEASE CONTROL; WATER AERATION;

PLANT SHOOT DENSITY; THATCH MANAGEMENT;

VEGETATION;

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA; POA; POA ANNUA; POACEAE; SCLEROTINIA; SCLEROTINIA HOMEOCARPA; SCLEROTINIA HOMOEOCARPA;

EID: 0344153835     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.38.6.1227     Document Type: Article

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