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Photo of the week: lime-induced disease

Be careful with the lime applications. That's clear from this image, shared by Dr. Jim Kerns fr...

Manganese and take-all patch

PACE Turf has adjusted guidelines for manganese availability to suppress take-all patch caused by Ga...

Comparing particle sizes of two sands

One way to compare sand particle sizes is to study the particle size information in data tables. Plo...

Turf growth potentials

On the topic of growth potential and light, and recent conversations with a few people about the cli...

Temperature affects growth more than light

I wrote on the ATC site about Light and GP, again. Many years ago, even before we developed the MLS...

Coefficient of uniformity for sand rootzoone material

In the 2018 revisions to the USGA Recommendations for a Method of Putting Green Construction, one of...

Palmetto GCSAA Education Meeting

On April 3, I'll be at Horry Georgetown Technical College for the Palmetto GCSA Education Meetin...

Monitoring soil moisture: it’s time to start

As the weather warms, many suspected pest problems turn out to be drought problems instead. This is ...

Nitrogen harvested in clippings: calculation update for 2024

Here's how I'd estimate the nitrogen harvested in turfgrass clippings. I'd start by loo...

A clipping volume recommendation

I gave a presentation last week in Montreal at the Canadian Golf Course Management Conference with t...

MLSN test on half the course

Joe Gulotti's podcast with golf course superintendent Daniel Palin has a good discussion of prac...

Normal leaf nitrogen content for putting green grasses

It's surprisingly difficult to get good data for normal levels of nutrients in turfgrass leaves....

Seashore paspalum tissue guidelines

For those of you who grow seashore paspalum, you know that nutritional guidelines are quite differen...

All about OM246 testing for soil organic material

There's a new video that shows a lot of information about the OM246 total organic materal test i...

El NiƱo southern oscillation forecast update

The National Weather Service's climate prediction center has published a new update: El Ni&ntil...

The NC State Turf Diagnostics Lab year in review 2023

Lee Butler published their 2023 Turf Diagnostics Lab Review and it is full of interesting informatio...

Humic and fulvic acid application “had no effect”

I was searching for dissolved organic carbon and the hundredth-molar calcium chloride extraction (0....

Particle size distribution curve

Sand particle size analyses are often reported as percentages in tables. Reports that are delivered ...

Six systematic ways to adjust the N rate

There are various ways one can choose and then adjust the N fertilizer rate. Perhaps you use one or ...

The USGA’s standard organic matter test recommendation

This week's USGA Green Section Record quietly includes an article that will have a big impa...

Improved climate appraisal spreadsheet

A reminder about this, because we sometimes receive questions about calculating GP or calculating fe...

Favoring creeping bentgrass or Poa annua with P fertilizer

Have you wondered about soil phosphorus (or fertilizer P) and whether either can be manipulated to f...

A compact height of cut gauge with a laser

There's a new type of prism gauge available, invented by Alexander Grengs who is currently Facil...

An intuitive understanding of ppm in the turfgrass rootzone

Fertilizer added to the soil surface is in units of mass per area. Pounds per 1000 square feet, poun...

Soil test conversions lb/acre to ppm

We had a great question this week that is worth sharing. "MLSN guidelines are reported in ppm (part...

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