Author Question: Keeping the soil in golf greens on the wet side could lead to what kinds of disease problems? ... (Read 43 times)

evelyn o bentley · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

Keeping the soil in golf greens on the wet side could lead to what kinds of disease problems?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What are the basic objectives of cultural control methods?

What will be an ideal response?

Anton · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

The most serious would probably be Pythium and Rhizoctonia diseases in new seedings or established turf. Other less important diseases might include certain Helminthosporium diseases, red thread, summer patch and necrotic ring spot, take-all patch, southern blight, downy mildew or yellow tuft, spring dead spot, bermudagrass decline, snow molds, and slime molds.

Answer to Question 2

There are two basic objectives with the application of cultural controls to manage weeds. First, cultural operations are selected to enhance the conditions for optimum turf growth. Any mechanism that increases the turf's competitiveness should have the opposite effect on weeds. Secondly, through this competition, the weeds should be reduced to a weakened state providing easier, direct control with herbicides.