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US map showing 2025 turfgrass sample origins; 71% SE, 41% NC, 13% SW; Top5 NC, FL, SC, TX, CA

2025 Turf Diagnostics Lab Review

Overall, total turfgrass samples submitted in 2025 to the NC State Turf Diagnostics Lab were 6% higher than samples submitted in 2024 and 13% above our 18-year running average (2008-2025). As…

NC State three-panel: turf "Cold Injury/Chloroplast Masking"; closeup "Purple Leaf Tip"; "Leaf spot"

Purple Bermudagrass Greens? Cold Weather Likely to Blame

This fall, the weather has been ideal for golf and mainly for reducing pathogen activity. Signs of mini-ring and take-all root rot are appearing on bermudagrass putting greens, but the pathogens were…

US map: 2024 turfgrass sample origins — 65% SE, 15% SW, 37% NC; Top 5: NC, FL, TX, CA, AL

2024 Turf Diagnostics Lab Review

Overall, total turfgrass samples submitted in 2024 to the NC State Turf Diagnostics Lab were 6% lower than samples submitted in 2023 and 7% above our 15-year running average. As expected, most (74%)…

2023 Client Distribution bar chart: Golf 67%, Lawn 30%, Orn. Nursery 3% (% of all turf samples)

2023 Turf Diagnostics Lab Review

Overall, total turfgrass samples submitted in 2023 to the NC State Turf Diagnostics Lab were 11% higher than samples submitted in 2022 and 14% above our 15-year running average. As expected, the…

Red turf coring tool standing upright on green turf surface

Purple Spots on Your Ultradwarf Bermudagrass Putting Greens?

Purple haze all on my bermudagrass putting greens. Lately, this turf just don’t seem the same. Actin’ funny like Pythium blight but I don’t know why. ‘Scuse me while I scream at the sky! Help me!…

Golf putting green showing multiple circular brown turf damage patches

Why Should You Love Soil Temperatures When Managing Bermudagrass Diseases?

As the summer is coming to a close, except for 100oF temperatures in September, we are in the window to manage those important diseases of ultradwarf bermudagrass putting greens. Spring dead spot…

Golf green with numerous circular brown patches and a white fence in the background

Disease or Not Disease, That Is the Ultradwarf Question!

As temperatures across our region roller coaster their way into spring, bermudagrass putting greens are often some of the first warm-season turfgrass systems to green up. While that's a good thing…

North Carolina county map with red and gray counties; title "2013-22 Creeping Bentgrass Submission Origin"

North Carolina Putting Green Samples - 10 Year Review

The following post is a 10-year review (2013-2022) of turfgrass samples submitted to our lab from golf course putting greens solely in North Carolina. North Carolina is located in the transition zone…

Map of 2022 turfgrass sample origins by US state; 44% NC, 68% SE (TN/NC/MS/AL/GA/SC/FL)

2022 Turf Diagnostics Lab Review

Overall, total turfgrass samples submitted in 2022 to the NC State Turf Diagnostics Lab were higher (+16%) than samples submitted in 2021, which brings us back to a normal year since it was very…

Aerial turf plots showing patchy dead grass; title "Review of Spring Dead Spot and Large Patch Trials From 2021-22"

Review of Spring Dead Spot and Large Patch Trials From 2021-22

Each year our program conducts 60 to 75 fungicide trials on various turfgrass diseases. Fall disease management trials focus on diseases of warm-season grasses and those diseases include spring dead…