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This question about irrigation arrived and I think it’s worth explaining more about irrigation amounts and frequency. I was listening to the end of your conversation with Chris Tritabaugh1 and you guys briefly discussed using light and frequent vs.

I’ve been curious about which types of content are most preferred by those who follow ATC. So I asked, in a survey last week. I first sent the survey directly to the subscribers of the ATC blog by email list.

I’ve shared the posts from 2021 that got the most views. Then there are these that got the fewest. I think these are more interesting than the top 10, actually. These cover a broader range of topics.

For the fifth year in a row, I’ve taken a look at “turfgrass Twitter” to find some of the most influential and active accounts from the previous year. I cast a broad net to find the industry accounts, and I minimize manual intervention of account addition and removal.

These posts had the most views in 2021. You’ll see there are two main topics that were read the most. The top four posts were about organic matter management and coring and that sort of thing.

This is exactly what the title states. It’s a few things off the top of my head, and a few things I jotted down over the course of the year. All together, it turns out to be a lot of awesome reading and watching and contemplating material.

Joe Gulotti, host of The Talking Greenkeeper podcast, invited Jason Haines and I to join him for a fun conversation. We talked about sustainability, MLSN, OM246, playability, sand topdressing, and a special Christmas for Joe in Arizona.

Daniel Hahn asked an interesting question about organic matter. Talking about “variability between greens at the same site,” he wondered, “could you explain what your opinion is about the statement, if you think greens vary a lot in OM or if you see minor difference?

Chris Tritabaugh and I met to review the OM246 test results from samples collected in October 2021 at Hazeltine National Golf Club. We did this as a livestream episode of ATC Office Hours, which is available for watching or listening at your leisure.

I saw an article in the Global Golf Post that states zoysiagrass “requires … less water .. than bermuda[grass].” I guess there’s not much fact-checking in golf industry magazines, but that egregious error would have been corrected had the article been fact-checked.