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Fairy Ring Management
Symptoms: fungi inhabit root zone, form surface mushrooms/puff balls; dark green or brown outer ring of dead turf; inner ring has green grass; occurs in same location from one year to the next and spreads outward; areas turn hydrophilic during drought.
Cultural control: avoid irrigation water containing algae
use only well decomposed organic matter
control thatch
remove excess woody limbs/undecomposed roots
avoid <85:15 greens mixes (ie. 80:20 or other mixes with more organic matter)
maintain field capacity with irrigation
apply medium levels of N
apply wetting agents

Fungicides: flutolanil (ProStar) primary fungicide;Basiodiomycete fungicides: bicoral, polyoxin, mepronil, bitertanol, flutolanil














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