Category: Fairy Rings

I caught up with a whole selection of the County Cricket groundsman last week to talk about Fairy ring and it’s management. There are a few critical things with fairy ring: Manage your expectations The green rings you see are likely to be last years activity -short term positive results are more likely to be…

I’ve had a few questions from our fellow bloggers over at the TurfcareBlog team about Fairy rings: What type of fairy are there and which ones are cause the most issues for turf managers? There are around 60 different fungal pathogens that are known to cause fairy rings and the way the display themselves in…

The term ‘fairy ring’ is used to describe a number of turf grass diseases where soil-borne fungi cause certain symptoms to develop on the surface of the sward. Fairy rings are caused by the activity of many fungi classified as basidiomycetes. Not all basidiomycete fungi cause fairy rings but all fairy rings are caused by…