Home Lawn: Turf Tips
Pesticide
record keeping improves lawn management
Our warm-season lawns should be at their peak of performance
over the next couple of months with adequate cultural practices of fertility,
watering, mowing and pest management.
Pest management is often neglected until the lawn is in
serious trouble. Scouting for insects and diseases should be a part of
your weekly lawn activities just as mowing.
Do you keep records of pesticide applications to your home
lawn? There are many benefits to thorough record keeping on the pesticides
we apply to our home lawns.
- Effectiveness -- use your records to analyze your pest
management program. What works and what does not work.
- Resolve pesticide failures -- recorded information will
help determine causes of poor product performance due to timing, rates,
environmental conditions, etc.
- Improve purchasing abilities -- records will help in
purchasing correct amounts for following years. You’ll save money
and eliminate excess pesticide disposal problems.
- Determine carryover injury -- records are necessary
to evaluate the what, when, where, and how much was applied.
- Document your legal use -- accurate records are your
best defense if you are accused of an improper application that causes
drift or personal injury.
- Provides medical emergency information -- if an accident
does occur, records can provide medical personnel treatment information.
Published June 13, 2005
Dr. Wayne Wells is an Extension Professor
and Turfgrass Specialist. His mailing address is Department of Plant
and Soil Sciences, Mail Stop 9555, Mississippi State, MS 39762. wwells@ext.msstate.edu
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