The essential book on turfgrass management, now revised and updated

Fundamentals of Turfgrass Management, Third Edition introduces the principles of turfgrass management, covering everything from basic turfgrass science to fertilization, mowing, turfgrass diseases, career paths, and much more.

With an emphasis on explaining why certain management practices are handled as they are, this new edition offers expanded and updated information on:

• Pesticides

• Cool-season and warm-season grasses

• Soil testing and soil amendments

• Micronutrients in fertilization

• Herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides

• Sports turf and sports field construction

• Golf course construction and management

Written on a level suitable for students, but with a wealth of information useful to experienced turfgrass managers, Fundamentals of Turfgrass Management, Third Edition provides a solid yet flexible grounding that readers can apply and adapt on the job to nearly any situation.

An introductory textbook for students just entering the field, emphasizing why certain management practices are handled as they are. It incorporates Christians' own experience with golf courses. No date is mentioned for the first edition.
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Turfgrass management is the science of maintaining high quality turfgrasses. In this large and growing industry today's managers require a background not only in botany and horticulture but also in business management

This book provides the basic principles of turfgrass managment at a level that is accessible to students but which is also suitable for experienced professionals. Today in the US turfgrass is a $50 billion industry.

* Covers basic turfgrass science, fertilisation, mowing and turfgrass diseases and also provides practice tools to enable the reader to make practical every day management decisions

* This new edition offers expanded information on turfgrass nutrition, nitrogen sources, weeds, insects and disease identification and management

* Colour photos of grasses, weeds and turfgrass diseases makes this an easy-to-use valuable resource for students

* Colour photos of grasses, weeds and turfgrass diseases makes this an easy-to-use valuable resource for students

The revised edition of the essential book on turfgrass management

"Fundamentals of Turfgrass Management" provides a complete, up-to-date introduction to all aspects of turfgrass managementfrom basic turfgrass science to establishment, mowing, irrigation, topdressing, fertilization, pest management, and more. By giving full, in-depth explanations of all topics, this revised fundamentals guide makes it easier to apply covered material to a variety of environments, including golf courses, sports fields, and lawns.

This Second Edition offers updated, practical material on:

• Controlling moss and algae
• Water treatment and water quality
• Turfgrass nutrition
• Nitrogen sources

  More than fifty new color photographs bring to life the expanded coverage of weeds, insects, grasses, and turfgrass disease identification and management. The perfect hands-on reference for making day-to-day management decisions, this guidebook offers step-by-step advice on the selection and maintenance of turfgrasses and addresses helpful mathematics for making everyday calculations, such as application rates of fertilizers and pesticides, for irrigation, and topdressing problems.

  Fundamentals of Turfgrass Management, Second Edition is an essential volume for everyone who works with turfgrass, including golf course superintendents, field managers, irrigation specialists, greenkeepers, golf course architects, and golf course builders.
  

Nick E. Christians, PhD, is Professor of Horticulture at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, where he has taught courses and conducted research on turfgrass management and physiology since 1979. The author or coauthor of more than 880 papers, articles, book chapters, abstracts, and books including The Mathematics of Turfgrass Maintenance, Third Edition and Scotts Lawns: Your Guide to a Beautiful Yard, Christians has been the recipient of numerous honors, including the Outstanding Educator Award from the American Society of Horticultural Sciences and?the Iowa Legislative Teaching Excellence Award. He has been a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy since 1995, and a Fellow of the Crop Science Society of America since 1996.