There’s an interesting blog post by Jim Orson titled “Read this before leaf tissue testing for micronutrients.” The entire post is worth reading. It describes his conclusions after studying the result of 15 trials with winter wheat. “That’s not turfgrass,” you might say. And rightly so. But I couldn’t help... [Read More]

Or at least they had a captivating discussion on The Talking Greenkeeper show. They talked about a lot of things: name dropping manga taking shoes off, or not doing things or applying products for a reason what it was like to work for Micah Woods what it’s like to now... [Read More]

A correspondent wrote with a question about soil biology for controlling organics, adding compost tea to feed beneficial bacteria, and etc. There are two articles that I recommend as an introduction to this topic, both by David Zuberer. I suggested that Zuberer’s Microbes in soil and sand-based rootzones, from SportsTurf... [Read More]

In this series of posts, I’ve showed how one can start with temperatures and go all the way to a standardized comparison of growth in response to nitrogen supply. In this one, I want to emphasize which of these are real, which aren’t real but are useful, and to make... [Read More]

The amount of nitrogen (N) supplied over a certain time duration, compared to a standard amount, is what I call the genki level (GL). And the amount of clippings harvested over a certain time duration, compared to a standard amount, is what Jason Haines calls the turfgrass speedo. I wrote... [Read More]