Notify me when new publications are added.
This factsheet provides instructions on how to properly care for tall fescue grass year round. It includes recommendations for mowing, fertilization, watering, pest control, and renovation.
This comprehensive guide offers information on different grasses for North Carolina lawns, as well as how to establish, care for, maintain, and renovate a new lawn.
The following management practices will help you care for your lawn throughout the year. Location, terrain, soil type and condition, age of the lawn, previous lawn care, and other factors affect turf performance, so adjust these management practices and dates to suit your particular lawn.
This calendar provides detailed information for the proper care of centipedegrass.
This publication for homeowners and landscapers describes how to mow, fertilize, irrigate, and control weeds in a zoysiagrass lawn.
This annual guide supplies information concerning pesticides that can be used for controlling pests in turfgrasses. Revised for 2024.
This guide is designed to help identify the most troublesome diseases associated with cool-season turfgrasses. This includes such grasses as tall fescue, fine fescue (chewings, creeping red), Kentucky bluegrass, and perennial ryegrass. A description of the disease symptoms, a list of specific management practices that can be used to prevent or reduce turfgrass injury by disease and a chart to indicate when the disease is most likely to occur are presented.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of algae.
This calendar contains suggestions designed to help in the care and maintenance of St. Augustinegrass throughout the year. It includes recommendations for mowing, fertilization, watering, pest control, and renovation.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of brown patch.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of leaf spot.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of anthracnose.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of pythium root rot.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of fairy ring.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of cream leaf blight.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of yellow patch.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of pythium blight.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of nematodes in turfgrasses.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of leaf and sheath spot in turf.
This publication covers disease control in a variety of crops.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of dollar spot.
Infestations of moss in turf are associated with unfavorable conditions for growing healthy, dense turf. This publication offers control options.
This guide is designed to help turf managers identify the major turfgrass pests found in North Carolina and better understand their life cycles, symptoms, and biology.
This factsheet provides instructions on how to properly care for carpetgrass year round. It also includes information on fertilization and integrated pest management.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of large patch.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of summer patch.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of pythium root dysfunction.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of red leaf spot.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of copper spot.
This guide to lawn maintenance for North Carolina contains information on establishing a new lawn, maintaining it, and controlling lawn pests using organic methods. It also provides information on renovating an existing lawn.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of take-all root rot in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of slime mold.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of gray leaf spot.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of rust.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of white patch.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of spring dead spot.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of damping off.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of yellow tuft.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of gray snow mold.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of powdery mildew.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of red thread.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of microdochium patch (pink snow mold).