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This question arrived recently to my inbox. I paraphrase: “Sir my greens are hard, the ball bounces and goes beyond the hole. Please give me recommendations on the steps taken to keep green soft.

I thought it might be useful to summarize the key details of MLSN in a cheat sheet. For people using MLSN, or wanting to use it, this 2 page cheat sheet is intended to be a handy reference.

These are the slides from my workshops and presentations at BTME 2018. You can view the slides here, or go to SpeakerDeck to download any of these slide decks. Turf Conditions & Optimal Efficiency with the Grammar of Greenkeeping This full day workshop on 21 January covered the system described in my book A Short Grammar of Greenkeeping.

This isn’t just a story about the fertilizer choices or the costs. There is a lot more to it, and I encourage you to read the entire post at Gulotti’s The Walking Greenkeeper blog.

In the latest World Golf Report, I came across a link to Giles Morgan’s post on Sport – it’s all about Darwinning. This was a broad discussion of sports thriving – or not.

This inquiry came to my inbox: “I’ve been asked to give a seminar on MLSN guidelines for the [ ]. I intend to keep the explanation fairly simple. Are there any frequently asked questions that you have encountered that I could use in my presentations to help me make sure I’m explaining it clear enough … On a side note…I have been teaching this method of soil fertility interpretations for two years to my [ ] turf students and I can’t quite understand the resistance I get from superintendents….

I used the rtweet package to collect turfgrass community tweets from 2017. I had learned of this package from Bob Rudis’ blog post about rtweet. At the end of the year, I had a bit of time, and a lot of curiosity, so I finally tried it.

These posts from 2017 had the most pageviews this year. Here they are, counting down from ten to one. [10] June, How much N is in rain and snow? One hears all kinds of numbers.

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.

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.