Green keepers need to be vigilant due to increased humidity, especially in the south of the UK, as Fusarium grabs a foothold. The unseasonally mild weather has led to a rise in Fusarium explosions on many courses.
This picture, taken yesterday, shows an outbreak on a golf green. The whole of the course has been severely affected; the only real solution is reactive application of fungicide.
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In a move set to put the 'Great' into the British Lawn, Mike Seaton Founder of the Lawn Society, has fired a broadside across the bows of the organisers at the Chelsea Flower Show by insisting that Lawns, the centre feature of nearly every garden, be added as a category at the world famous show.
Mike quite rightly insists that lawns have been treated by the Royal Horticultural Society as the poor relation and, whilst the society pushes hard the importance of trees, shrubs and plants, they ignore on of the major drivers of the horticultural industry.
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Green keepers need to be vigilant due to increased humidity, especially in the south of the UK, as Fusarium grabs a foothold. The unseasonally mild weather has led to a rise in Fusarium explosions on many courses.