Soil Treatment Strategies for Effective Fusarium Control

Soil-based fungicides such as TerraClean can effectively control Fusarium, especially when used preventively.  TerraClean is recommended because its powerful scientific formula contains highly-concentrated organic acids specifically designed to penetrate soil and eradicate several common soil-based disease pathogens, including:

  • Fusarium
  • Verticillium
  • Phytophthora
  • Rhizoctonia
  • Thielaviopsis
  • Pythium

TerraClean also effectively enhances crop production!  As its revolutionary chemical formula reacts with soil-borne pathogens, large quantities of oxygen are produced and released into the soil, stimulating root development, increased nutrient intake, and plant growth!

TerraClean has several key benefits including:

  • EPA-Certified
  • Zero-Hour REI
  • Applicable any time from seed to harvest

Completely environmentally safe and biodegradable


Foliar Treatment Strategies for Effective Fusarium Control

Foliar fungicides such as OxiDate are an excellent complement to soil-based Fusarium treatments provided by TerraClean.  OxiDate’s unique scientific formula rapidly oxidizes on contact with foliage to control and eradicate Fusarium and a host of other common plant diseases such as:

  • Early Blight
  • Late Blight
  • Powdery Mildew
  • Downy Mildew
  • Pythium
  • Phytophthora

OxiDate’s key benefits include:

  • No mutational resistance
  • EPA-Registered
  • OMRI-approved for use with organic production
  • Fully biodegradable and environmentally friendly
  • Applicable from seed to harvest
  • Use as a soil drench, foliar spray, pre-plant dip, and surface disinfectant

Fusarium Blight on Lawns

Fusarium blight is a lawn disease that affects cool season grasses such as bluegrass, tall fescue and bentgrass. It occasionally attacks warm season grasses as well and strikes when lawns are under drought stress during hot, humid conditions. Fusarium roseum and Fusarium tricinctum are the common fungi that cause Fusarium blight.

Fusarium blightFusarium Blight Symptoms
Initially, grasses affected by Fusarium blight display light green patches that are 2- to 6-inches in diameter. The shape of the affected areas may appear as circular patches,  crescents or elongated streaks. At high temperatures, the patches quickly change from light green to reddish brown, then tan and finally to straw-colored.

At this stage the disease displays symptoms characteristic of a doughnut-shaped area up to 3 feet in diameter. It displays a pattern that resembles a “frog-eye” – with healthy grass in the center of the diseased area. When conditions of high humidity and high temperature persist for an extended time, these diseased areas can multiply and may overlap. As a result, blight may appear to have taken over an entire area of turf. It is important to control fusarium blight before the disease progresses, when the grass dies as the crown and root tissues are destroyed.

Excessive watering creates conditions more favorable for the fungi . Also, high nitrogen levels favor fusarium blight when there are greater accumulations of thatch.

Fusarium Blight Control
Planting mixtures of bluegrass with perennial ryegrass can prevent Fusarium blight in areas of bluegrass. Otherwise, a program to control thatch together with a fungicide like ZeroTol or ZeroTol RTS (Ready-to-Spray), that is specifically labelled for Fusarium control is essential for effective control of fusarium blight.

Incoming search terms: Posted June 4th 2011 at 2:05 pm by Brady