Dr. James Beard’s Turfgrass Encyclopedia defines thatch “as an intermingled organic layer of dead and living shoots, stems, and roots of grasses that develops between the turf canopy of green ...

First Drexel, tomorrow Philadelphia, eventually — the world. Drexel University has moved to an organic turf management model across all of the University City Campus and will eliminate synthetic ...

In Delaware, turfgrass diseases are caused by pathogenic fungi and microbes that infect the leaves, stems, and roots of turf type grass plants. With infection, grasses may show symptoms such as leaf ...