Asian Turfgrass Center

What causes disasters, expensive corrective measures, and deterioration of good golfing conditions?

Posted on June 24, 2018

I moved my books to a different room in my home office earlier this month. One of those books contains this strongly-worded sentence. These “disasters,” “expensive corrective measures,” and “deterioration of good golfing conditions” are completely avoidable. In fact, another of the books on those shelves has this quote: “Fertilizer... [Read More]

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Smith-Kerns and korai

Posted on June 17, 2018

Yesterday I saw some dollar spot on a korai (Zoysia matrella) fairway in Kyushu, Japan. I wondered what the Smith-Kerns model probability for dollar spot had been. So I looked up the recent temperature and humidity at a nearby weather station. [Read More]

Posts are now tagged by topic

Posted on June 13, 2018

I finally figured out how to link the tags on the “new” ATC site into lists of posts, tagged by topic. More about that below. What this means is if you see a tag for soil (10 posts) or water (2 posts) or tissue testing (4 posts) or awesome (1... [Read More]

Some rise, some fall, some climb

Posted on June 10, 2018

A full year of putting green clipping volume measurements looks like this. Well, it’s like that with a number of caveats. This is what it looked like: at this location 21° N latitude with seashore paspalum turf managed the way it was with the weather of the past year growing... [Read More]

Monthly Turfgrass Roundup: May 2018

Silicon, carbon, P, #MLSN, #ClipVol, Smith-Kerns dollar spot model, nozzles, sluggish Cynodon, snow removal & Poa, golf in the Philippines, & much more

Posted on June 5, 2018

Jim Brosnan wrote about a sluggish start for bermudagrass. Jason Sanderson showed tall fescue that thrived this spring: The Bermuda may have hated this spring, but the tall fescue sure loved it! pic.twitter.com/u4Bv3NUWfI— Jason Sanderson (@jsanderson1907) May 19, 2018 I enjoyed reading about saltmarsh coastal protection work in the Eden... [Read More]

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