Preventive treatments for bentgrass dead spot

April 23, 2007

Now that some guidelines have been established for preventive control of bentgrass dead spot, what are the best products to use? Because the disease is relatively new, there isn't a great deal of information out there. However, based on our review and on input from Dr. Kaminski, the following products have good track records so far:

- Emerald (boscalid) - Insignia (pyraclostrobin) - Cleary's 3336 (thiophanate-methyl)

While there are several other products that probably do a decent job as well,…