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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 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 publication for homeowners and landscapers describes how to mow, fertilize, irrigate, and control weeds in a zoysiagrass lawn.
This calendar provides detailed information for the proper care of centipedegrass.
This publication covers insect control in a variety of crops, as well as household pests.
This annual guide supplies information concerning pesticides that can be used for controlling pests in turfgrasses. Revised for 2022.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the scoliid wasp and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of white grubs and addresses how to control them as an insect in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of ground pearls and addresses how to control them as an insect in turf.
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 publication discusses the biology, damage, and control of fire ants in pastures.
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 crane fly larvae and addresses how to control them as insects in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the millipedes and addresses how to control them as an insect in turf.
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.
Recommended maintenance practices for a lawn that consists of a blend of tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass are the same as those for a tall fescue lawn. The following management practices will help you care for your lawn throughout the year.
This Entomology Insect Note describes the biology and control of the twolined spittlebug, an insect pest of turf and ornamentals in North Carolina.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the cutworm and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the clover mite and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the earthworm and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the twolined spittlebug and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
This chapter of the North Carolina Organic Commodities Production Guide covers key management practices for organic peanut production.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the sugarcane beetle and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
Recommended maintenance practices for a lawn that consists of a blend of tall fescue, hard (fine) fescue, and Kentucky bluegrass are the same as those for a tall fescue lawn. The following management practices will help you care for your lawn throughout the year.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the cicada killer wasp and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the chinch bug and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
A guide to maintaining quality turf on athletic fields.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the mole cricket and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the yellow jacket and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of voles and addresses how to control them in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of bees and addresses how to control them as an insect in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of nuisance ants and addresses how to control them as an insect in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the hunting billbug and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of fall armyworms and addresses how to control them as an insect.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the Japanese beetle and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
This publication, chapter 5 of the 2022 Peanut Information handbook, reviews insect control issues in peanut production.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of crayfish and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of hornets and addresses how to control them as an insect in turf.
This publication, chapter 9 of the 2022 Peanut Information handbook, discusses the interactions of agrochemicals used in peanut production.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of moles and addresses how to control them in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the rhodesgrass mealybug and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of nematodes and addresses how to control them in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of the sod webworm and addresses how to control it as an insect in turf.
This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of springtails and addresses how to control them as an insect in turf.
This profile board will help farmers and consultants determine when peanuts should be dug.
This publication, chapter 11 of the 2022 Peanut Information handbook, describes integrated pest management and pesticide stewardship in peanut production.
