Summer Stress Management for 2003

Bottom line: Some components of summertime turf management are familiar and proven practices—aeration, salinity management, raised mowing heights, traffic and heat management and properly targeted and timed pesticide applications. We have also recently taken a look at some less familiar—but we believe, equally important—sources of summer stress, including drought (due to poor irrigation distribution), nitrogen toxicity, oxygen depletion in the soil and phytotoxicity due to fungicide and growth regulator applications made on very hot days. In this issue of PACE…