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I’ll be teaching a webinar on April 27 for Campus del Césped about critical turfgrass maintenance this year. Abstract and registration here. This seminar will be available in Spanish and in English.

This post was first published at the TurfDiseases page and I am reprinting it here. If you want to have a good sward, then you’ll need to make sure the grass is supplied with enough nutrients.

Yesterday I wrote about tools used to measure surface hardness. I’ve used all of those tools, and I prefer the golf course firmness tester from SDI (a 500 g Clegg impact tester with a domed head) for its ease of use and reliability.

There are various tools available to measure surface firmness, or surface hardness, of turfgrass. For golf course putting greens, I’ve used four different tools, and my preferred method is the golf course firmness tester from SDI.

When I saw how these grasses were growing at #ATC南店, I jotted down a couple notes for a future blog post—this one. when grass grows more, it makes more roots

Jim Riopelle wrote an excellent article in the January/February issue of Turf & Rec magazine. You’ll want to read the full article. Here are a few quotes: I’ve experienced the good times in our industry but more recently have seen a beleaguered industry, as our core players age, younger people don’t play, and revenues struggle to keep up with expenses …

I was reading the “Cultural Aspects of Disease Management” chapter in Management of Turfgrass Diseases by Dr. Vargas and came across this gem about soil pH: “Most of the literature tells you that the soil pH should be maintained at the optimum level for turfgrass growth (between 6 and 7).

The N-only pot looked pretty good when I showed roots after 184 days. But that same grass grew a lot more, and produced a lot more underground roots and rhizomes, when P and K were added.

Regular readers of this site will remember the grow-in experiment I started on 1 October 2019. I wrote about it in these posts. Fertilizer response at planting Experiment update: fertilizer response at planting

Ben Kebby has started a Facebook group, Tuesday Evening Research Papers, or T.E.R.P.S. He shared this week an article I wrote in 2012 about understanding turfgrass nutrient requirements. I tried to write a 1 page update or overview to elaborate on that, but it spilled over to 2 pages.