Spring dead spot develops under turf covers

Spring dead spot has always been a difficult disease to control, but things just got a little bit trickier — at least for those of you who use turf covers to protect bermudagrass during the winter. It turns out that the disease can actually develop underneath the turf covers, as documented recently by Dr. Jim Kerns of North Carolina State University. In this case, ultradwarf bermuda greens were covered during the winter, but on March 9, the covers were peeled…