Creeping Bentgrass Management

Posted on December 18, 2015

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There was no internet, cell phones, or social media in most of the 20th Century. The internet facilitated knowledge exchange in quantum leaps.  Historically, scientists and students sought information in the library and spent countless hours “threshing the journals.” Today, journal articles can be found on-line via several search engines like Michigan State University’s Turfgrass Information Files.  Despite internet resources, a fast approach to understanding a turf problem and its management often can be found at your fingertips in a text or reference book.  Overtime, most turf professionals build their own libraries.

Creeping Bentgrass Management Second Edition was published in 2013. A major focus is devoted to the biology of weeds, diseases, insects and other pests found in creeping bentgrass and outlines cultural, biological and chemical approaches to their management. It tackles the summer decline complex, which is a complicated interaction among heat in dry versus wet rootzones, organic layers, shade, algae, soil microbes, mechanical injury and other stress factors.  It outlines the “how’s and why’s” of management tactics like coring, vertical cutting, topdressing, water management, nutrition and other  practices, which are necessary for promoting bentgrass rooting, vigor and summer survival.   It describes the use of plant growth regulators for managing clippings, green speed, suppression of annual bluegrass, and improving bentgrass shade tolerance. The book explores the nature, mechanisms, environmental fate, and non-target effects of pesticides, plant growth regulators and other chemicals. Creeping Bentgrass Management contains 362 pages,  over 200 color photos and over 300 literature citations to document and describe  the “art and science” of creeping bentgrass management.

-Peter H. Dernoeden, Ph.D