Asian Turfgrass Center

Flights and favorite turf photos of 2017

Posted on December 29, 2017

As I say at the end of every year, it has been another extraordinary year for studying grass around the world. See these links for some of my favorite photos (and flight maps) from 2015 and 2016. This year I took 78 flights for a total distance of 205,043 km... [Read More]

A non-comprehensive list of awesome turfgrass things other people did this year

Posted on December 24, 2017

I’m taking this idea from Jeff Leek at the Simply Statistics blog. He’s been putting together a list of awesome things other people did each year. He makes the list off the top of his head. My memory is not that good, so I’ve referred to some notes in addition... [Read More]

Fixing these issues in one fell swoop

This quote from a 1978 article identifies a slew of problems with conventional soil test interpretation for turfgrass. MLSN fixes them.

Posted on December 23, 2017

I was writing an article yesterday about MLSN and reading some articles about soil testing and turfgrass nutrition. I came across this gem from Turner & Waddington (1978). “Unfortunately, turfgrass recommendations appear to be based on research done with other crops, such as forages, results from turfgrass fertility studies not... [Read More]

Ten posts that no one read in 2017

These are the posts with the lowest pageviews this year

Posted on December 21, 2017

I’ve written more than 100 blog posts this year. A few of them were read by many – hundreds, and for a few posts, more than 1,000 – people. The median post from 2017 got 184 pageviews. The middle 50% of the posts had pageviews from 112 on the low... [Read More]

web/tech

Topdressing frequency on golf course putting greens in Japan

Posted on December 20, 2017

A recent conversation about putting surfaces in Japan led to discussion of topdressing amounts and frequency. The Greenkeeper 2018 has course maintenance summaries for 17 courses in Japan. I mapped the locations of those courses by zip code. Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap,... [Read More]