Free Guide to Australian turf pesticides
Our friends at International Greenkeepers for Hire have produced the free guide to turf chemicals. This covers all generic and branded turf chemicals in Australia. It is a free download below so simply scroll down and click on the image below. It has been written so turf managers, lawn owners, contractors, and councils have an easy-to-use reference that can be downloaded or viewed online.
We also have free turf specific fungicide resistance and herbicide resistance tables that can be used with this book.
Besides being free we feel it is equally important that it’s in a digital format. Consequently, it is easy to regularly update as new products come onto the market. Hence new products such as the granular pre emergent herbicides Echelon and Echelon Duo from Indigo Specialty are already there. This blog on getting the best from pre-emergent herbicides will help you out with using these properly. Putting this Guide to turf chemicals together wouldn’t be possible without sponsors Gilba Solutions and Indigo Specialty.
Labels, SDS sheets, and further technical information are available in the turf chemical section. For more information on multisite fungicide combinations, visit our turf blog and also this article on the pros and cons of using fungicides preventatively or curatively might be of interest. We also recently started producing more detailed turf product information sheets such as this one on Lexicon Intrinsic.
This Guide to turf pesticides comprises 109 pages and is fully indexed. You can simply search or scroll down to find what your looking whether its a specific chemical or a specific weed. Consequently, it can be searched by topic, product, or specific problem.
In the future we are already making plans to update this with a spray adjuvant section and an expand the weed ID to possibly include weed seedling ID.
The Guide contains
1.2 Reducing the Likelihood of Resistance occurring;
1.3 Key Factors that reduce the development of resistance.
2.0 Pests and diseases of turf
2.1 Weeds of turf
2.22 Common indicator weeds.
2.23 Common Turf broadleaved weeds.
3.0 Australian Registered pre-emergent herbicides for turf, commercial, industrial areas, and flower beds/pots.
4.0 Turf Herbicides.
5.0 Industrial Herbicides.
7.0 Fungicides.
7.1 Fungicides mode of action – contact
7.2 Fungicides mode of action – systemic
7.3 Common Turf Fungal Diseases.
8.0 Registered Turf Fungicides
9.0 Registered Turf insecticides
10.0 Plant growth regulators in turf
11.0 Pigments and dyes in turf
After Graduating from Newcastle University with an Hons Degree in Soil Science in 1988, Jerry then worked for the Sports Turf Research Institute (STRI) before emigrating to Australia in 1993.
He followed this by gaining a Grad Dip in Business Managment from UTS and has worked in a number of managment roles for companies as diverse as Samsung Australia, Arthur Yates and Paton Fertilizers.
He has always had a strong affinity with the Australian sports turf industry and as a result he established Gilba Solutions in 1993. Jerry has written over 100 articles and two books on a wide range of topics such as Turf Pesticides and Nutrition which have been published in Australia and overseas.