Drought, bermudagrass, and zoysiagrass

Posted on October 15, 2018

There’s an interesting article by Zhang et al. about warm-season grass and what happened under water scarce conditions during 21 day dry down periods. This article, Drought responses of above-ground and below-ground characteristics in warm-season turfgrass, reports on an experiment in which bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon), manilagrass (Zoysia matrella), Japanese lawngrass... [Read More]

High resolution DLI maps of the United States

Posted on October 14, 2018

James Faust and Joanne Logan wrote a review of daily light integral (DLI) in the September issue of HortScience. They have also prepared high resolution maps of the United States. If you click on a location on the map, a table and chart will display with the average annual and... [Read More]

Golf and Health

Posted on October 11, 2018

Some people are interested in golf; even more are interested in health. This new article in the British Journal of Sports Medicine is a consensus statment “to guide action by people, policymakers and the golf industry.” It is also quite readable. These are some of the consensus statements: The best... [Read More]

Botanizing at Nippon Treasure Links

Posted on October 10, 2018

There are a couple amazing courses that you won’t find on the usual maps of golf clubs in Japan. Most golfers I talked with this year had no idea that there were courses there. And I’d only recently learned about these golf courses at Ukushima and Ojika. After Andrew Thomson... [Read More]

Monthly Turfgrass Roundup: September 2018

Pre- and post-typhoon, mental health, golf and health, amino acids, #MLSN, #ClipVol, podcasts, topdressing zen, Ryder Cup greenkeeping team, turfgrass nomenclature, bouncing mowers, surrogate markers, fall fertilizer, and a lot more

Posted on October 9, 2018

There was a longish discussion about amino acids and marketing to educated turf pros. Come on gang, this marketing stuff is, well... these are educated turf pros you are selling to, each of those 4 products in the program has a N component... 14-2-4, 4-0-8, 2-0-0, pros can interpret these... [Read More]