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| Publication Type:
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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Ridding greens of Dichondra |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 12, No. 3, May 1932, p. 82. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "We are sending you a piece of turf containing a cloverlike weed which is gradually showing itself on our Bermuda grass greens and smothering out the Bermuda. What is the weed and how can we get rid of it?" |
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| Source of Question: | Louisiana |
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| Answer/Response: | "The piece of turf you send is infested with a weed, common to your section of the country, called Dichondra. This weed is rather difficult to remove and it may eventually be necessary to remove the turf and resod with pure Bermuda grass or plant with Bermuda grass seed. Before going to that extreme, however, you may have some success by sprinkling the infested area with sulphate of ammonia early in the spring when the Bermuda commences to grow. Pure sulphate of ammonia should be placed in a canister or salt shaker and dusted on the infested areas early in the morning when the dew is still on the ground. Within a few hours after a light dusting it will be noticed that the weed is being burned and is turning yellow. At that time the putting green should be watered in order to wash the chemical into the soil and prevent injury to the grass roots which may be in the weedy area. This direct application of sulphate of ammonia to the weedy area serves two purposes; it temporarily destroys the weed and it stimulates a new growth of Bermuda grass in these areas by its fertilizing action. Several of these treatments may materially decrease the amount of the weed in your greens." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Ammonium sulfate; Control methods; Cynodon dactylon; Dichondra; Golf green maintenance; Problem diagnosis; Recommendations; Weed control; Weed identification
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
USGA Green Section. 1932. Ridding greens of Dichondra. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 12(3):p. 82. |
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