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Lack of response to a fertilizer application

These pots of variegated tropical carpetgrass (Axonopus compressus) received an application of granular 16-16-16 fertilizer twelve days before this photo was taken. The grass on the right responded with a lot more growth than did the grass at left.

Last updated on 2021-08-03 2 min read

Lack of response to a fertilizer application

Zoysia growth habit and the type I prefer (for golf)

It’s been cloudy, and raining, and I wasn’t in a rush to cut the grass. I decided to skip mowing for exactly 4 weeks to demonstrate the difference in growth habit that I wish everyone paid attention to.

Last updated on 2021-05-27 2 min read

Worldwide agroclimatology data, PAR, shade, and grass

I’ve been using the NASA POWER agroclimatology data for a few projects. I get the data using the convenient nasapower R package by Adam Sparks. There is also a web-based map data access viewer.

Last updated on 2021-04-11 3 min read

Worldwide agroclimatology data, PAR, shade, and grass