Scouting Report: May 11, 2012
May’s Temperature Zig Zag: Soils are sub-60 again, Fairway fungicide programs begin, Waitea, Microdochium, Dollar spot, and Tim’s Waitea data is early!
This week did you sit back and enjoy the fruits of ideal growing conditions? ...for cool-season turf? We would have, but were mowing. You see, April frustrated us a bit because we stayed cool and it didn’t rain much.
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Scouting Report: May 4, 2012
It’s May, We Warm: A Trifecta of Disease, 1st Waitea, Microdochium patch, Dollar spot returns, and Tim says "Early Dollar Spot Research"
It became May and well... we warmed. This would my first week to see a lot of core Chicago courses - I’d be in diagnosis mode. Compared to March’s freakish warm, this time around it would be less mysterious. (Read More)

Waitea research. Waitea’s bright yellow ring symptoms began about the 1st week of May in Chicago. It’s timing is approximately 2-4 weeks earlier than usual (based on data collected across 4 previous years) on a Poa green at Biltmore Country Club in N. Barrington, Illinois. Settle 5-7-12

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