In part 2, I showed how the ratio of N applied to standard N gives an indication of how much one is pushing the grass to grow. I call that the genki level (GL). How much the grass really does grow can be measured by the clipping volume. With the... [Read More]

I showed in part 1 how one can go from temperature to a temperature-based growth potential to a standard N amount. By looking at the actual N applied, and comparing that amount to the standard N for any location, one gets what I call the genki level. If less N... [Read More]

This is one I’ve been thinking about for a long time, and have discussed with many turf managers, but I don’t think I’ve explained it on the blog yet. So here goes. This is what I call the turfgrass genki level. Background, or why I think this is useful Sometimes... [Read More]

Sean Heath wrote with this question: “do you or anyone else know of data being tracked for sunlight or cloud cover? Specifically how much sunlight did Northern VA receive this year with all the rain and cloud cover? Curious how it compares to previous years” Easily accessible (usually) and accurate... [Read More]

A year ago, I looked at a selection of turfgrass industry accounts and ranked them in the Turf Twitter 2017 analysis based on a combination of followers, tweet creation rate, favorites of the tweets sent from the account, retweets of the tweets sent from the account, and mentions of the... [Read More]