winter annuals

Turfgrass Team Times, 03.28.25

Welcome back to the OSU Turf Team Times - your go to resource for turf information in Ohio. This is the recording from Friday, March 28, 2025. We are in the early season and this turf resource will be recorded every other week for awhile. After checking out this recording, watch for a BYGL Alert sharing the next recording this Friday, April 11, 2025.
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Amy Stone
Ed Nangle

Turf Team Times, 03.15.2024

It's Back - The Turf Team Times (TTT), the 1st seasonal update of all things turf, has been posted for 2024. This first edition was recorded on Friday, March 15, 2024 and will continue to be bi-weekly, until the end of May, and then will transition to a weekly format.
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Amy Stone
Tyler Carr
Ed Nangle

Sneaky Winter Annuals

The annual deep purple bloom of Purple Deadnettle and Henbit in Ohio farm fields and a purple haze rising over lawns may conjure a nostalgic pop culture smash-up. These non-native showy weeds belong to the mint family, Lamiaceae, as evidenced by their square stems which is a family trait.
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Joe Boggs

Hairy Bittercress Busting!

How many of us have gone outside to smugly look at our gardens that looked pristine and in excellent shape heading into the winter?  Then in the Spring, as we emerge from our winter hibernation to survey our domain… We are shocked!  What the heck happened out there because there are tufts of green weeds everywhere!  A gardening friend asked me what this green thing was, because he had already pulled or dug up two wheelbarrow loads of them!  The prolific green demon belongs to the mustard family (Brassicaceae) and is known as Hairy Bittercress (HB) or Cardamine hirsuta...

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Erik Draper

Turfgrass Times, 03.19.2021

Check out the first edition of the Turfgrass Times in 2021. A special shout out to the following OSU Turfgrass Team members that made this week's video possible: Dr. David Gardner; Dr. Ed Nangle; Joe Rimelspach; and Dr. Dave Shetlar (aka the Bug Doc); Dr. Pamela Sherratt; and Michael O'Keeffe.
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Amy Stone