Solutions Center - Landscape Management
Solutions Center

Solutions Center: On the right track

Mar 1, 2007

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

Don't prune, treat

This pro found a way to slow plant growth and reduce pruning costs.
Jul 1, 2005

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

Solutions Center: Implements reduce labor

Jun 1, 2005

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

Solutions Center: No crying over crabgrass

This lawn care operator found a way to guarantee that his customers' lawns will be crabgrass-free
Jun 1, 2004

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

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.

Fleet Management: In with the new

Feb 1, 2003

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.

Solutions Center: Goodbye crabby

This veteran turf manager lets the crabgrass poke its nasty head up before he attacks.
Jun 1, 2002

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.

New insecticide options

These new target-selective insecticides give turf managers new hope in pest management
Apr 1, 2002

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.

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