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Hollow-tine cultivation and solid-tine spiking both failed to alleviate summer bentgrass decline
A late July solid-tine spiking treatment of a creeping bentgrass green in Hokkaido, Japan. How’s this for a lede? “Hollow-tine coring and solid-tine spiking practices may not alleviate creeping bentgrass summer decline.
Micah Woods
2020-07-24
2 min read
Radish seedlings on a bentgrass nursery after fumigation
Last November I saw a creeping bentgrass nursery in Japan. The nursery had been fumigated to kill seeds in the soil before the bentgrass seeds were planted. I was surprised to see, scattered across the nursery, plants with big leaves that clearly were not creeping bentgrass.
Micah Woods
2020-06-29
1 min read
Can you see the P?
The MLSN guideline for phosphorus (P) is 21 ppm. I usually recommend enough P fertilizer to keep soil P, as measured by the Mehlich 3 extractant, from dropping below 21 ppm.
Micah Woods
2019-12-21
2 min read
Competition, stress, and disturbance
I completely forgot a few great articles when I put together this list of articles that are specifically not about turfgrass. One of those I forgot is Evidence for the existence of three primary strategies in plants and its relevance to ecological and evolutionary theory.
Micah Woods
2019-10-31
3 min read
Flights and favorite turf photos of 2018
As I say at the end of every year, it was another extraordinary year for studying grass around the world. In 2018 I took 107 flights for a total distance of 314,748 km (195,575 miles).
Micah Woods
2019-01-20
4 min read
Catching up on my reading, heat stress edition
I’ve been writing a monthly column for Golf Course Seminar (ゴルフ場セミナー) since May of 2008. The articles are usually 2 pages. I wrote a couple 4 page articles when マイカの時間 The BOOK was published last year.
Micah Woods
2018-09-23
3 min read
A greenkeeping discussion
I had an open discussion today with a group of greenkeepers in Japan. We talked about a lot of things – bentgrass in summer, irrigation, fertilizer, organic matter management, roots, etc.
Micah Woods
2017-08-29
1 min read
Phosphorus deficiency symptoms in the control plots
After last week’s post about the soil test levels where P deficiency symptoms were seen, Paul Johnson wrote to remind me about another experiment: “This is always a topic of interest to me, beginning with the study I did in the early 2000s.
Micah Woods
2017-07-31
5 min read
Can we guess how low the P is here
When I see a photo like the P deficiency one shared by Ben Pease (see photo below), I am really curious to know the soil test levels of the element.
Micah Woods
2017-07-26
2 min read
The two green system usually means there are two bentgrass greens per hole
The idea that golf courses in Japan with the two green system have a summer green and a winter green is not quite correct. Nor is the two green system used exclusively with one warm-season grass green and one with cool-season grass.
Micah Woods
Last updated on 2021-06-23
2 min read
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