Another Day in the Neighborhood….

Wow, what a beautiful summer. The weather has been really nice, even a little cool (we are about a week behind normal on some degree day models). The grass is greener this year and everybody is livin’ large. Everybody, but us turfgrass diagnosticians! Until today…

Small grayish-purple leaf lesions indicate an early gray leaf spot infection. Photo: Sabrina Tirpak, Rutgers PDL

Small grayish-purple leaf lesions indicate an early gray leaf spot infection. Photo: Sabrina Tirpak, Rutgers PDL

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Touch of Gray

Everybody keeps asking me “any gray leaf spot yet?”  And I answer, “why yes, but not where you think.”  Gray leaf spot was diagnosed last week on samples of Hakonechloa that were submitted from a central New Jersey nursery grower.

Gray leaf spot on Japanese Hakone grass. Photo: Sabrina Tirpak, Rutgers PDL

Gray leaf spot on Japanese Hakone grass. Photo: Sabrina Tirpak, Rutgers PDL

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