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49 - AFLC - Agriculture, Fishery and Livestock
AFLC 506 - Turfgrass Management
Course Description
This course involves the management of turf grasses for both landscape and recreational uses. At the end of the course, the student should have a working knowledge of grass varieties and their uses: use of a key in plant grass identification; growth requirements including temperature, fertilizers, irrigation and drainage; pest identification and control including fungi, nematodes, insects and weeds; cultivation (planting and mowing)
Course Objectives
- Identifying the major types of turf grasses
- Identifying the relationship between proper mowing, liming, variety selection and a successful turf
- Identifying and managing turf pest problems with reduced application of traditional pesticides
- Developing a turf management program for both commercial and home lawns
- Defining IPM practices as they apply to turf
- Identifying steps to improve a lawn
- Identifying steps to completely renovate a lawn
- Selecting the appropriate fertilizer program for turf
- Specifying how to read a soil test result
- Identifying common turf weeds and a strategy to reduce/prevent them
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