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Grass ID, crabgrass and nutsedge, white grubs, chinch bugs, brown patch, dollar spot, scales and mites, IPM and sprayer calibration. One drawn page per topic, so you can review in short sessions after work and find any answer at a glance. 66 illustrated pages.
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Every page has one big drawing and a box with the numbers, rules and steps you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 62 topics.
It's Sunday night, the state manual is open on the kitchen table, and you're on the weed chapter. Summer annual, winter annual, perennial. You need to know which one sprouts when, because that decides when the product goes down.
The manual lays it out in long paragraphs: germination, flowering, seed set, dormancy, all in one block. By Monday morning, crabgrass and henbit have traded seasons. Nobody drew the cycle for you, so there's nothing to hold on to.
In the book, weed life cycles is one page. Three bands across the calendar: summer annual, winter annual, perennial. Each one has its control window marked right on it, so you see when the pre-emergent goes down and when it's already too late.
Grass ID, white grubs, the disease triangle, chewing vs. sucking damage, sprayer calibration: each one has its own page, with the drawing first.
You look at the calendar, you see the window, and you answer the timing question without going back to the manual.
The exam and the rules, turfgrass, weeds, turf insects, turf diseases, trees and shrubs, IPM and safe application, calibration math and a final review: 66 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
It's July and you're standing in a client's lawn with brown, dead-looking patches. Fungicide, grubs, or just a dry spot? You need to make the call before anything goes in the tank.
In the book, you open the damage-pattern page. Turf that lifts like a carpet: grubs. Damage along the sunny edges: chinch bugs. Chewed blades: caterpillars. Three patterns, drawn side by side.
Same with brown patch and dollar spot, crabgrass and nutsedge, armored and soft scales, and boom calibration with the 1/128 method (the ounces you catch = gallons per acre): each one on its own page.
Turf & Ornamental Applicator Illustrated is 9 parts and 62 topics, all drawn, and it ends with a one-page recap, a seasonal calendar, a calibration checklist and an exam-day checklist.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
Core vs. Category, the label as the law, signal words, restricted vs. general use and the records you have to keep: you know what each exam covers before you open the manual.
Cool-season vs. warm-season grasses, grass ID by ligule and auricles, the growth calendar, mowing, watering, N-P-K and thatch.
Weed life cycles, grassy vs. broadleaf vs. sedge, crabgrass, nutsedge, Poa annua, dandelion, henbit, pre- vs. post-emergent and herbicide types.
Damage patterns, white grubs and how to count them, preventive vs. curative control, chinch bugs, webworms, billbugs and mole crickets.
The disease triangle, brown patch, dollar spot, Pythium blight, red thread, snow mold, fairy ring and fungicide FRAC codes.
Chewing vs. sucking damage, armored and soft scales, aphids, spider mites, bagworms, lace bugs, borers and timing by degree days.
IPM in 5 steps, formulations, PPE and REI, drift and inversions, water and pollinators, and how to handle a spill.
The units you need, measuring the area, the backpack sprayer in 5 steps, the 1/128 method, GPA, spreaders and active ingredient math: the tank questions, worked out in the same order every time.
Weeds, insects and diseases on one page, the seasonal calendar, a calibration checklist and an exam-day checklist.
At the end of the book: A one-page recap, a seasonal calendar, a calibration checklist and an exam-day checklist.
Exam-style questions on weeds, insects, diseases, IPM and calibration, each with the answer explained, so you find your weak spots before exam day.
Before/after drawings of the mistakes applicators make most often, from wrong pre-emergent timing to skipped recalibration, so you can spot them and fix them.
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Every weed, grub and lawn disease has its own drawn page, so you can study in short sessions after work and still keep it straight.
The review part puts weeds, insects and diseases on one page, plus the seasonal calendar and the calibration checklist to go over in the last few days.
Print the pages you use most and keep them in the truck: damage patterns, control windows and tank math, right where you need them.
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Yes. It doesn't treat you like a beginner: it puts what you already see on the job in order, one drawn topic per page, so you can study in short sessions.
From the state Turf & Ornamental category manuals, the federal certification standards in EPA 40 CFR Part 171, FIFRA and product labels. Rates, thresholds, category numbers and posting rules are marked so you can check them against the current edition of your state's manual.
No. It's an independent illustrated study guide. It covers the topics state Turf & Ornamental category exams share under EPA 40 CFR Part 171. Category numbers, rates and posting rules change by state, so they're marked for you to check against your state's manual and the label, which remain the official references.
No. It's a companion to them: the same topics, drawn, so they're easier to review. Use it next to your state manual, not instead of it.
No. They're written for this book to help you find your weak spots. They are not official questions from any state exam.
You get it as a PDF by email, at the address you enter at checkout.
No. It's a one-time payment.
Yes. It's a PDF you can print at home or at any print shop, the whole book or just the pages you want in the truck.
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Crabgrass, grubs and brown patch: you see them drawn, and they stick.
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