Practical Turfgrass Management

by John H. Madison

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0442156480
• ISBN13: 9780442156480
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
• Length: 466 Pages

Customer Reviews

Under-appreciated genius

This is a must-read book for professional managers of fine turfgrasses, especially golf course superintendents. John Madison was the first university turfgrass researcher (UC Davis) to think and write of the management of fine turfgrasses in an environmentally systematic way. He was what would today be called an ecologist. Other academic writers adopted a "cookbook" approach to turf management (if you see this, do that...), which has generally failed to prepare their students for the vagaries of the real world. Madison was a bit of a hippy and flake, but a visionary. The philosophy and systematic approach he first espoused is viable today, 30+ years after it was written.