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Publication Type:
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Content Type: | Q & A |
Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
Title: | Steam sterilization of soil under growing turf |
Section: | Questions and answers Other records with the "Questions and answers" Section
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Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 13, No. 5, October 1933, p. 150. |
Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
# of Pages: | 1 |
Question: | "An apparatus has been shown to us for forcing steam below the roots of grass and it is suggested that by its use insects in the soil will be killed and the nitrogen content of the soil increased. Could this apparatus be advantageously used on putting greens?" |
Source of Question: | Ohio |
Answer/Response: | "Steam sterilization of soil for killing weed seeds before the soil is used for planting crops has been practiced for some time, and you will find the process described in the Bulletin of September, 1930. We doubt, however, that steam could be forced into soil under growing turf without a certain amount of the steam filtering around the roots of the grass and thus killing it. No doubt the steam would kill the insects and worms in the soil and tend to make more nitrogen and other plant food available, but if at the same time it destroyed the turf the results would not be so favorable. We do not know of any work that has been attempted with a view to sterilizing soil underneath turf and are therefore unable to say to what extent the turf might be injured. It might be well to have the machine tried out to ascertain its effect on soil insects and on the turf underneath which the test is made." |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Golf green maintenance; Insect control; Nitrogen availability; Recommendations; Steam sterilization
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Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
See Also: | See also related article "Treatment of soil by sterilization" The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section, 10(9) September 1930 p. 173-175 R=36550 R=36550 |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): USGA Green Section. 1933. Steam sterilization of soil under growing turf. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 13(5):p. 150. |
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