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Management programs for spring

The stress of summer weather can be decreased significantly with preventive strategies that you take...

Springtime = fairy ring prevention time

If you have had fairy ring problems in the past, you will probably have them again this year -- and ...

Spring is here

The Northern Hemisphere's Spring equinox falls on Monday, March 20, marking the first time this ...

Monitoring soil moisture made easy

We come across more and more cases where dry soils are the unexpected cause of damage to turf. Dry s...

Updated address for GP Avatar app

The GP Avatar app shows cool-season and warm-season growth potential through the year. This app can ...

Save water through improved irrigation management

With all eyes on water conservation in many parts of the world, tuning up your irrigation system is ...

Easy tool for characterizing your soils

Is it a sandy loam? Or a loamy sand? Managing your soils to deal with drainage problems, to diagnos...

The USGA’s GS3 ball

The USGA Green Section is now selling a device called the GS3 which has sensors inside it. These sen...

Soil nutrient levels decrease as grass grows

When grass grows, it uses nutrients from the soil. This leads to a decrease over time in soil nutrie...

The question is compaction: is bulk density the answer?

There have been many discussions regarding aeration of greens to manage organic matter content. Alth...

Video: Compaction relief

If one photo is worth 1,000 words, this video is priceless. Watch Dennis Fowler, La Jolla Country Cl...

Putting green data collection 101

The USGA Green Section podcast has an episode with Chris Tritabaugh and Adam Moeller discussing diff...

GDD Calculator

Growing degree days (GDD) can be an essential tool and PACE Turf provides GDD base 32 F and GDD base...

Coring and core sweepers

Core aeration is a common and essential maintenance practice for fine turfgrass all over the world. ...

PACE Turf Weather Alerts: What do the colors mean?

The color codes on your PACE Turf Weather Alerts provide a quick way to evaluate how stressful your ...

Great water quality reference

There are a few classic references that everyone should be aware of. One of those references is FAO ...

Soil pH and “the diagram”

You've almost certainly seen some version of the soil pH and relative nutrient availability diag...

Video: an introduction to pH

In turf management, we talk a lot about pH. We talk about soil pH and water pH, and spray tank pH. W...

Soil organic matter as an indicator of mineralizable nitrogen

One important reason to pay attention to the soil organic matter content is its relationship to mine...

Phosphorus and poa suppression: article posted on PACE Super Journal

George Kenny, superintendent at Talega Golf Club in San Clemente, CA, evaluated of the role of phosp...

An introduction to precision management

This summary from the 2006 PACE Turfgrass Research Seminar on precision turfgrass management  (...

In OM246 total organic material testing, where’s the zero point?

The ATC website has answers to nine questions that were sent about OM246 and soil nutrient sample co...

MLSN explained, the easy way

There's a blog post by Jason Haines with this statement about MLSN: "The MLSN guidelines are act...

Compendium of Turfgrass Diseases, Fourth Edition

I just ordered my copy of the new (2023 publication) Compendium of Turfgrass Diseases, fourth editio...

Site-specific climate appraisals updated through 2022

The site-specific climate appraisals, found at the top of the Weather page, have been updated throug...

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