Resources for Lawns & Gardens

Lawn Maintenance FACTSHEET (from OMAFRA) 
An excellent resource for homeowners and professionals alike! This factsheet provides detailed information to help you maintain your lawn using good maintenance practices throughout the growing season -- good advice about proper mowing, fertility, overseeding, irrigation, thatch control, disease management and integrated pest, weed and insect management. These techniques provide a dense, healthy, high quality lawn, without the use of pesticides.

Weed Management for Turfgrass - Rob Witherspoon

Water-wise Lawns & Gardens - Prof. Terry Gillespie, Dept. of Land Resource Science, U of Guelph

Healthy Lawns
At this website, you'll find out how to have a healthy lawn while reducing your use of pesticides!. There is information here for both homeowners and professionals.  Prevention of pest problems is the best way to have a healthy lawn.

GTI Lawn & Garden Letter - Rob Witherspoon, Director of the Guelph Turfgrass Institute
Written seasonally, this newsletter will provide entertaining advice for home gardeners with a focus on lawn and garden care and the outdoor gardening lifestyle. Suitable primarily for people living in northeastern North America and similar temperate climates in other parts of the world.

Spring Lawn Care - Prof. Katerina Jordan, Dept. of Plant Agriculture; Guelph Turfgrass Institute, U of Guelph

The Gardener's Handbook (from OMAFRA) - an easy reference guide to the most common pest problems you are likely to encounter in the home garden.

Frequently Asked Questions
Please send us your questions -- we'll do our best to answer them -- and would like to include on our website the answers to questions most frequently asked about Home Lawn Care under different conditions.  Send them to info@guelphturfgrass.ca