I’ll be teaching a webinar on April 27 for Campus del Césped about critical turfgrass maintenance this year. Abstract and registration here. This seminar will be available in Spanish and in English. I’ll be discussing the way I would approach turfgrass maintenance this year, and I’ll use my book A... [Read More]

This post was first published at the TurfDiseases page and I am reprinting it here. If you want to have a good sward, then you’ll need to make sure the grass is supplied with enough nutrients. I suggest that the most effective, logical, and efficient way to do that is... [Read More]

Yesterday I wrote about tools used to measure surface hardness. I’ve used all of those tools, and I prefer the golf course firmness tester from SDI (a 500 g Clegg impact tester with a domed head) for its ease of use and reliability. This is a summary of Clegg measurements... [Read More]

There are various tools available to measure surface firmness, or surface hardness, of turfgrass. For golf course putting greens, I’ve used four different tools, and my preferred method is the golf course firmness tester from SDI. From left to right, this is the ball bearing kit from Precision USA, the... [Read More]

When I saw how these grasses were growing at #ATC南店, I jotted down a couple notes for a future blog post—this one. when grass grows more, it makes more roots the amount of aboveground material makes more photosynthesis makes more roots I planted grass as 3 cm diameter plugs, planted... [Read More]