Need to boost your weed I.Q.? Wondering what's eating your turf or feasting on your clients' flowers?
Check out Principles of Weed Control, an entry-level textbook just updated to its third edition. The book was designed as a reference for the California Pest Control Advisors licensing examination, and landscape contractors might take interest in the expanded turf and ornamentals section and a new chapter on the "The Environmental Fate of Pesticides."
The 17-chapter, 600-page reference book covers all aspects of weed and vegetation management and was authored by field experts from the California Weed Science Society.
For more information, call 559/266-2964 or write to Thomson Publications, P.O. Box 9335, Fresno, Calif.., 93791. Log on to www.agbook.com for details. - Kristen Hampshire
The author is Managing Editor - Special Projects for Lawn & Landscape magazine and can be reached at khampshire@lawnandlandscape.com.