Orange dust on shoes/feet after golfing/soccer/baseball.

[edro]

Has anyone else ever noticed bright orange dust on your feet after golfing or walking through grass?

It seems to be grass that is well groomed, like fairways, soccer fields, baseball outfields, etc.

Is this a pesticide or herbicide? It just doesn't seem right...

 

[edro]

http://hyg.ipm.illinois.edu/pastpest/199920e.html
Rust fungus spores?

 

[lxskllr]

I never noticed, but I don't wear white shoes. I don't walk on groomed turf much either.

 

[Aluvus]

No, but my parents used to use a fertilizer that was bright orange.

 

[DominionSeraph]

probably a clay base.

 

[dud]

Clay dust?

 

[edro]

I'm talking bright orange... like Cheetos orange.
It actually looks like Cheetos dust that is on your fingers.

 

[edro]

24. My son's shoes are orange after he has been out playing on our lawn! Does this have something to do with our late summer weather?

BOB: Turfgrass is one of the plants affected by "rust disease" in late summer. The fungus has rust-colored spores which easily rub off on clothing and shoes.
Rust is considered a "low fertility disease" and an application of nitrogen lawn fertilizer in September should help suppress this disease. A

 

[Kyle]

weird...never had that happen

 

[BoomerD]

What? You never heard about Agent Orange?


(or for the nimrods here...Asian Orange...who stared in the show, Secret Asian Man.)