A well-designed chemical program keeps the Chattanooga Coho Coho property as colorful as its history.

This pro found a way to slow plant growth and reduce pruning costs.

This Wisconsin landscape pro cut down on his need for labor by buying a mower unit with lots of attachments.

This lawn care operator found a way to guarantee that his customers' lawns will be crabgrass-free

Solutions Center: Profit from prevention Many property owners are embracing the idea of season-long fire ant control May 1, 2004 By: Ron Hall

Many property owners are embracing the idea of season-long fire ant control

Solutions Center: Tipping the scales Stiles Landscape veteran shows what to do when you encounter a “new” destructive landscape pest Jun 1, 2003

In January 2002, seemingly overnight, lobate lac scale coated the stems and small branches of several of his wax myrtles, silver and green buttonwoods, coco plums and ficus trees.

Jeff Corcorran doesn’t have time to deal with every aspect of his business. The last thing he needs to worry about is when to sell his old trucks and buy new ones to maintain his fleet of 20 vehicles. He leaves it up to a fleet management services company.

With 12 years of experience, Damon Ervie is no stranger to turf management. For the past three years, this director of fields and grounds and his staff of five full-time employees have been maintaining and renovating 87 acres of high-profile sports turf, as well as 230 acres of common areas, for Liberty Public Schools in a suburb of Kansas City, MO.

In the past 10 years there has been radical change in the kinds of insecticides available to turf and landscape managers. Organophosphates (OPs) and carbamates that had previously been mainstays were restricted, and old standbys like diazinon, Mocap (ethoprop), Oftanol (isofenphos) and Turcam (bendiocarb) were lost.