Friday, October 28, 2022
This interesting photo illustrates the deposition of frost on the foilage of zoysiagr...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
As you plan management activities such as aeration, topdressing and leaching for this fall, keep in ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
There is no one-size-fits-all way to determine if your turf is going to suffer traffic damage when t...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Yes, it most certainly does matter. Products based on phosphite (also known as phosphonate or phosph...
Sunday, October 16, 2022
In a GCSAA Webinar titled "Redox Potential and the Black Layer", Dr. Lee Berndt reviewed the cause o...
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Here are five things that I like to see when I look at soil test results. This annotated chart in th...
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Winter hasn't arrived yet, but be prepared for diseases that are historically active at your sit...
Sunday, October 09, 2022
Here are four ways to figure out approximately how much sand should be applied as topdressing to gol...
Friday, October 07, 2022
There are four steps to a soil test. First is sampling, then laboratory analysis, then interpretatio...
Friday, October 07, 2022
If you are now using the MLSN (Miminum Levels for Sustainable Nutrition) soil guidelines, plan on us...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Fall is overseeding time, and that means that Fall is also Pythium time. This photo is from La Quint...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Spring dead spot is a difficult disease to manage. The reason is that the pathogen (Ophiosphaerella,...
Friday, September 23, 2022
Fall finally arrived in the Northern Hemisphere on September 23, 2022, and with it, the end of the m...
Friday, September 23, 2022
There must have been a lot of salt in the air when a typhoon passed over Itoshima in western Japan. ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Nitrogen is applied as a foliar treatment on many putting greens, but just how efficiently, and just...
Friday, September 16, 2022
In transition environments, fall overseeding and spring transition are always difficult times. If th...
Friday, September 16, 2022
I recommend air drying soils. This creates a soil that is frozen in time. If soils are not dried, or...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
When you collect a soil sample, do you dry it before sending it to the lab? If you do, that's th...
Friday, September 09, 2022
The Winter Turf Project is going into its second season. I'd heard about this but didn't rea...
Thursday, September 08, 2022
We frequently get questions about the use of saturated paste extract analytical tests (also sometime...
Saturday, September 03, 2022
"Algae disorders of turfgrass" is a general term that describes a wide range of symptoms from yellow...
Friday, September 02, 2022
Mixed stands of poa and ryegrass are common in fairways and roughs. Also common, quite unfortunately...
Sunday, August 28, 2022
I (Micah) made this short video, only 1 minute in duration. showing the tools I use to measure surfa...
Saturday, August 27, 2022
This one page soil phosphorus fact sheet has information about P deficiencies, different soil test e...
Saturday, August 20, 2022
Questions sometime come up about specific extraction methods for soil phosphorus (P). In general, th...
