CS053 -- Syllabus for Landscape Weed Management Section

Fall 2009

 

Instructor:         Dr. Joseph C. Neal

Office:              262 Kilgore Hall

Email:               joe_neal@ncsu.edu

Office Hours:    Meetings by appointment only.  Contact Dr. Neal via email for an appointment

 

Date

Topic

Link to lecture outline

Link to PP presentation

OCT 12

Landscape Weed Management Overview – Principles, Site assessment, Types of landscape plantings and weed management options for each.

Outline and

Reading assignment

Presentation

and

Handout

OCT 14

Landscape Weed Management Overview continued:  Weed management options cont., site preparation

Outline

Presentation

and

Handout

OCT 19

Fumigation, Steam Pasteurization and Solarization

Outline

Presentation

and

Handout

OCT 21

Preemergence weed control I:  Mul ches

Outline

Presentation

and

Handout

OCT 26

Preemergence weed control II:  Preemergence herbicides

Outline

Presentation

and

Handout

OCT 28

Preemergence weed control III:  Preemergence herbicides continued.; and how to use available resources – AG427

Outline

Presentation

and

Handout

NOV 2

EXAM

Old exam 1

Old exam 2

 

NOV 4

Postemergence weed control I:  Selective grass control

Outline

Presentation

and

Handout

NOV 9 Return and Review Exam    

NOV 9

Postemergence weed control II:  Selective broadleaf weed control

Outline

Presentation

and

Handout

NOV 11

Postemergence weed control III:  Non-selective herbicides

Outline

Presentation

and

Handout

NOV 16

Calibration and application uniformity

Outline and problem set

Presentation

NOV 18

Controlling hard to kill weeds Part I:  sedges in landscape plantings

 Outline

 

Presentation

and

Handout

NOV 23

Controlling hard to kill plants Part II

see above

see above

NOV 25 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY    

NOV 30

Controlling hard to kill weeds cont.

  Study Questions

Same as above

Dec 2

LAST CLASS -- finish hard to kill weeds and Review

Old Exam

2007 Final

 

                         

  FINAL EXAM: Wednesday, December 16, 8 AM.