Turfgrasses: Their Management and Use in the Southern Zone, Second Edition

by Richard L. Duble

Book Overview

A comprehensive guide to creating and maintaining turf for athletic fields, golf courses, parks, cemeteries, and commercial and residential landscapes. The author describes the biology of turfgrasses... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585441619
• ISBN13: 9781585441617
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Turfgrass Book Review

Dr. Duble is an outstanding agronomist and writer. Even though this book is actually a textbook used by Dr. Duble and others to teach college level turfgrass management, it is extremely useful as a reference manual for all kinds of turfgrass issues here in Texas. Great reference book!

IF you grow turfgrasses in the south read this book

This really a text book but it read like a great book on turfgrasses as a master gardener I use this book in my class.

Good turf management book

This book provides a compehensive discussion of turfgrasses and their management. There are plenty of pictures showing grasses, weeds, and diseases suffered. The pictures are all very clear and close up so you know what you are looking at. There is also plenty of info on how the manage(fertilize, mow, etc.) grasses. I actually used this book in a class taught by the author(Dr. Richard Duble); while I used this as a college textbook, this book does not read like a college textbook so it should appeal to a wider audience.

addition to previous review

The book is good for all people...topics covered apply not only to athletic fields(and golf courses), but also to the average home user. After reading the maintenance section, most people will learn that they over-fertilize and over-water. Topics also include tufrgass diseases, weed control, and managing insect problems.