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I noticed something interesting on the lawn of a resort at Ko Kood earlier this month. Looking down from the “Beware of falling coconuts” signs, I noticed that the southern section of lawn was primarily seashore paspalum, and that section of lawn was infested with a variety of weeds.

I was searching the Turfgrass Information File for ’turfgrass quality rating’ and a couple interesting silicon/silica/silicate projects appeared in the results. The first one, Fortification of Potassium Silicate With Compost Tea and Seaweed Extract for the Management of Dollar Spot of Turfgrass by Manoharan, I’ll summarize with this quote: “this study did not effectively control the dollar spot disease severity.

The India Golf Expo was held in Bangalore last month, and I was there to speak at the R&A seminar on sustainable golf course renovation and maintenance in India. You can read about the Expo and the R&A seminar, along with plenty of photos from the Golf Digest India reporting from this event.

I had an interesting conversation a few weeks ago about turfgrass nutrition. The conversation was wide-ranging, from fertilizer, to soil testing, and then the question came up, “what do you think about tissue testing?

I used Storify to string together some related tweets and images over the past few years. That service is shutting down. I’ve moved a “story” about light, shade, and time of day to this Twitter moment.

Yesterday I led a webinar for TurfNet about clipping volume measurement. The video recording of the webinar is here. The static slides (no audio) are here. The #ClipVol hashtag is a convenient way to find a lot of discussion and examples of this technique in practice.

There were 30,874 visitors to www.asianturfgrass.com and www.blog.asianturfgrass.com since April 23 last year. Of those, 60% were from a mobile device, 33% from a desktop/notebook, and 7% were from a tablet.

This is a friendly reminder that the information here can be obtained automatically by RSS or email every time there is an update, and then can be read or deleted at one’s leisure.

Some years ago I shared some articles that I often referred to or recommended, and I called that Five articles every greenkeeper should read. As I look at this list of articles now, I’m reminded of the familiar maxim about understanding the rules before breaking them.

I’ve been sitting on this idea for a long time, and I decided today would be a great day to write about it. You can decide if I’m serious. When we first study turfgrass management, we tend to learn a proactive approach.