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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: | Controlling pearlwort |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 5, No. 5, May 1925, p. 116-117. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "We are sending you a speciman of moss which has come into our putting greens wherever we have sown Colonial bent seed. The seedsmen from whom we purchased the bent seed claim that is was impossible for the moss to be introduced to our greens through the medium of the seed, as moss is not propagated by seeds but by spores. Notwithstanding this, the evidence seems to be clear to us that the moss was introduced into our greens through the medium of the seed. We should like to have your opinion on the matter, and also recommendations for getting rid of the moss. These mossy places will grow to the size of a golf hole in a couple of weeks. We must admit that a putting green of nothing but this moss would be pretty good. but mixed with the bent it spoils the looks." |
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| Source of Question: | Massachusetts |
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| Answer/Response: | "The specimen you send is no moss, but pearlwort, about which many notes have appeared in the BULLETIN from time to time. This plant is abundant along the Alantic coast and the Pacific coast, and it was possibly established at various places around your golf course before the course was built. It prefers moist, sandy soil near the seashore, yet grows well enough inland. It might be well for you to make a careful examination of the land about your greens to see if the plant is growing anywhere in abundance, as if that is the case the seed would at once be transferred to your greens. If you find the plant in the rough or outside the limits of the course, it can easily be destroyed by the use of weed poisons, particularly sodium arsenite, as described in the article on page 169 of the July, 1924, BULLETIN. If you do not fight the plant from the start you can make up your mind that it is going to be with you permanently. In our judgement, this is the worst weed you can get into your putting greens. To remove it from your putting greens it should be cut out and destroyed and replaced with pieces of sod. It is a good idea to have the keenest-eyed man you have go over the course and sprinkle a little ammonium sulfate on every patch of pealwort he finds. This will burn the foilage of the plant so that the man that follows him can readily find the patches of pearlwort and cut them out." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Agrostis tenuis; Control methods; Golf green maintenance; Herbicide recommendations; Sagina; Sodium arsenite; Weed control; Weed identification; Weed invasion
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also related article "Chemical weed-killers on golfcourse" Bulletin of Green Section of U.S. Golf Association, 4(7) July 21 1924, p. 169-171 R=49281 R=49281 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
USGA Green Section. 1925. Controlling pearlwort. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 5(5):p. 116-117. |
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