- Author: Clyde Elmore
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Published on: February 17, 2016
After four years of drought, turfgrass has taken a beating. Some people have turned off the water—the turf has turned into a few patches of grass, but mostly weeds, if anything is growing at all (Figure 1.) Others have reduced irrigation amount or frequency resulting in sparse grass and more weeds (often perennial weeds and/or drought tolerant weeds such as bermudagrass, dallisgrass, field bindweed, dandelion, narrow or broadleaf plantain, knotweed, hairy fleabane, star thistle and others.) Other people of course have removed the grass and replaced the landscape without turfgrass. There also has been a concerted effort to get people to reduce the grass in the landscape by painting with a broad brush that grass is a heavy water...
Tags: homeowner (5), parks (2), Parks and Urban Green Space (1), Turf / Sod (4), turf and ornamentals (10), weed control (122), weed management (40), weed publication (38)
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