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Can You Cure Your Lawn Woes by Singin’ the Hybrid Blues?
Hybrid bluegrass seed appeared on many of Virginia's lawn and garden center shelves a couple of years ago. Virginia Tech's Turfgrass Team shares their insight into how this relatively new cool-season...
View ArticleDrought to Deluge…What Will Happen to My Turf?
This podcast discusses the recent rains in Virginia and what impact they will have on turfgrass maintenance. Included are the impacts due to submersion, disease, fertility loss, and pre-emergent...
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Late-season Sod Establishment
Late fall and early winter are not recommended times for seeding turfgrasses, but what about establishing lawns from sod? This podcast details how late-season sod establishments of both cool and...
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“Fall” Into Your Cool-season lawn: Soil Preparation Before Planting
No matter the quality of the cool-season turfgrass you have selected for your site, it is absolutely essential that you provide it with soil conditions that promote both establishment and long-term...
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Red Thread and Pink Patch in Cool-season Lawns
This podcast details the identification and control alternatives for two important spring lawn diseases (Red Thread and/or Pink Patch). The brightly colored fungal threads that appear on the turf...
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Turfgrass Varieties for Mid-Atlantic Lawns
Field research-based recommendations on the best adapted turfgrass varieties for the mid-Atlantic region are published annually by the turfgrass faculty of Virginia Tech and the University of Maryland....
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Managing Mushrooms in the Lawn
Mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls... all are the fruiting structures of a diverse group of soil-borne fungi that appear in our lawns every now and then. Commonly called 'fairy ring', this podcast...
View ArticleSpring Planting Considerations for Warm-season Turfgrasses in Virginia Lawns
This information will assist you in proper warm-season turfgrass selection, seedbed preparation, seeding method, as well as provide other lawn establishment tips pertaining to fertilization,...
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Spring Lawn Establishment Tips
This podcast details the importance of using certified seed and sod when planting lawns, appropriate seeding rates, and how to achieve long-term success by proper soil tillage, fertilization,...
View ArticleSpring Weed Management
This podcast details the most important chemical and cultural steps in lawn weed control, including the appropriate use of preemergent and postemergent herbicides
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Fall Fertility Strategies for Virginia’s Homelawns
There are some definite do’s and don’ts when it comes to fertilizing Virginia’s homelawns in the fall, primarily in terms of appropriate timing and fertilizer rates for the many grasses grown in this...
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Choosing the Best Turfgrass Varieties
This podcast explains how the Virginia Turfgrass Variety Recommendation list is derived and how to use it to find and select the best varieties possible for your lawn.
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Frost Damage on Warm-season Turf
Some truly weird color patterns can show up in warm-season lawns during the first frosts of the fall season. Is this anything of concern?
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Spring Broadleaf Weed Control in Virginia’s Lawns
Warm spring temperatures lead to a resurgence in growth from our lawns as well as our broadleaf weeds. What steps can we take to maximize weed control while protecting our turf and our environment?...
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Choosing and Establishing Warm-season Turfgrasses for Virginia Lawns
Given its transition zone location, choosing a lawn grass is a difficult decision in many parts of Virginia. The mountain region (USDA Horticultural zones 5b-6b) is likely best suited for cool-season...
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Summer Grassy Weed Control in Lawns
This podcasts discusses the predominant summer grassy weeds found in Virginia's lawns, some tips in how to identify them, and presents options and challenges in their control.
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It’s Only a Matter of Slime
This podcast details one of the lawn's most distressing looking (but practically harmless) fungi: slime mold.
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Beetlemania—White Grub Control in Lawns
This podcast describes methods in identifying grub damage in lawns, how to optimize treatment effectiveness, and the role that beetle traps might play in pest management around the landscape.
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“Fall” Into your Cool-season Lawn: Selecting the Best Grass
Shorter days and cooling temperatures signal the change in seasons, ushering in the ideal period in Virginia to establish cool-season turfgrasses (bluegrasses, fescues, and ryegrasses). This podcast...
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“Fall” Into Your Lawn: Establishing Cool-season Turfgrasses
After selecting the best plant material for your location and preparing your soil, it is now time to plant your seed or sod. This podcast takes you through the steps in fall turf establishment and...
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Renovating Cool-season Lawns
The extended heat and drought of the summer has wreaked havoc on cool-season lawns. Whether you need partial or complete renovation, this podcast provides tips in grass selection, establishment,...
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Fall Fertilization Strategies for Lawns
This podcast details the appropriate steps in fertilizer selection and application that provide a great looking, environmentally friendly home lawn.
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Fall lawn weed control strategies
Fall is a great time to control many weeds in the lawn, either by mechanical or chemical removal.
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My Lawn ‘Stinks’: Skunk Damage
Did you wake up one morning in early fall, take a look at your lawn, and think that somebody must have vandalized it with a shovel? You probably received a visit from a skunk or a raccoon.
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Service Mowers Now Before Springing Them Into Action Next Season
This podcast details the steps in servicing mowers at the end of a mowing season so that they are in top operating condition next spring.
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I Think My Lawn Has Died This Winter
This podcast discusses how two perennial warm-season weeds in cool-season lawns (nimblewill and bermudagrass) can lead one to think that portions of their lawn has died over the winter months. These...
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Choosing Appropriate Ice Melt Products
Selecting the appropriate ice melt product can go a long way in protecting water quality. This podcast details the typical sources homeowners can find and stresses the importance of not applying...
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My Turf’s on Ice
This podcast details the importance of keeping traffic off of frost or ice-covered turf, what kind of damage to expect, and how long the damage will likely persist.
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Snow Mold
Has snow mold invaded your lawn? What it really is and what you should or should not do to prevent, stop, and/or repair further damage.
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Best Management Practices in Spring Crabgrass Control in Lawns
This podcast details cultural and chemical (both synthetic and organic) approaches in spring crabgrass control in homelawns, plus it highlights how to best time and treat product applications to...
View ArticleSpring Planting Considerations for Cool-season Turfgrasses in Virginia Lawns
This information will assist you in proper cool-season turfgrass selection, seedbed preparation, and seeding method, and will provide other lawn establishment tips pertaining to fertilization,...
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Annual bluegrass—a serious spring weed problem in Virginia’s lawns.
Annual bluegrass puts on a showy display of its seedheads every spring just before it dies in our summer heat. What can be done now and in the future to better manage this important lawn pest?
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Mow Like a Pro
There is nothing done more frequently in landscape maintenance than mowing the lawn, and nothing that is done with a greater frequency of mistakes either! This podcast details some of the most...
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Crabgrass – A Real Pain in the Grass!
Crabgrass is the number one weed in lawns and the best time to treat is usually before it is seen. This podcast details the best management practices in developing a crabgrass control program.
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Spring Lawn Fertilization—Getting it Right!
This podcast describes the steps in choosing and applying fertilizers to lawns in ways that result in a healthy, great looking lawn. Particular emphasis is placed on the selection of nitrogen sources...
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Spring Postemergent Lawn Weed Control
This podcast details the principles in selecting and applying the appropriate herbicides to control existing weeds in lawns as active turf growth resumes in the spring.
View ArticleBreaking The Spring Seeding Cycle
Break the Spring Seeding Cycle:As winter breaks and temperatures warm up, many spend some time outdoors, working in the lawn and garden areas, enjoying the sun and making a list of things to get done...
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A Decline in Spring Mowing Quality – What’s Going On?
As Mother Nature bounces back and forth between cool and warm-temperatures during mid- late spring there are often lots of questions asked by homeowners and professional lawn care managers alike...
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Springtime Mulching
Why do we want to Mulch? Mulching is a practice that trees have been doing all by themselves for thousands of years. Each year, trees drop leaves or needles to the forest floor, forming a layer...
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Driving Homeowners ‘Nuts – Sedge’ in the Lawn
Have you got ‘grass patches’ that grow at least twice as fast as your turf during the summer, even during some of the hottest weather possible? You likely are combating yellow nutsedge, a common...
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The Heat is On
This podcast considers the concerns of playing or working in your turf and gardens during extreme heat periods. Particular emphasis is placed on protecting our youth from heat illness while...
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Lawn Management During Heat and Drought
This podcast describes best management practices in optimizing the growth and health of cool-season lawns during periods of extended heat and drought.
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Your Lawn and The Environment
Whether you are a "do it yourselfer" in homelawn management or you employ a professional lawn care operator, there are basic management strategies to follow to ensure the environment is protected....
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Spurweed—a Lawn Pest that Truly is a ‘Pain’!
This podcast details the identification and appropriate chemical control strategies for one of spring's most troublesome and painful lawn weeds: spurweed (also called lawn burrweed).
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Improper Mowing of Lawns Can Impact Water Quality
Cutting turf and impacting water quality sound like completely unrelated topics. However, the improper handling of clippings is a very important way in which nutrients are inadvertently introduced...
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Lawn Recovery from Drought
Given the hit and miss nature of summer thunderstorms, many non-irrigated cool-season lawns in the mid-Atlantic enter summer dormancy following periods of two or more weeks of high heat, low humidity,...
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