greenkeeping

My books about greenkeeping, turfgrass science, clipping volume, and MLSN.

Frost delays. As a standard reference, I recommend this one: PACE Turf’s Clubhouse Edition on why frost delays are necessary. That reference explains what can happen and how to remove any risk from frost damage.

I gave two presentations, about two of my favorite topics, at the Golf Matters NZ Conference in Christchurch. Links to the recorded screencasts are below, if you’d like to get the entire presentation in rapid form.

Here are some common questions about turfgrass management: how much fertilizer should I be adding at this time of year? how often should I topdress with sand? how often should I be verticutting?

This is a philosophical one. I happened to look up the definition of inertia. I had thought it meant something like continuing doing what one has been doing, like a passive continuation of the route one is traveling once started on that route.

Some of you saw this film at its first screening during BIGGA’s National Regional Conference. On 8 December, the “Still Learning” film is coming to screens worldwide. And now, here is the official trailer.

I watched the Greenkeeper App meeting about organic matter, and I recommend you do too. The video has Doug Soldat, Bill Kreuser, and Roch Gaussoin talking about soil organic matter, rootzones, sand topdressing, and turf performance.

The video of my seminar for Campus del Césped is now available. You can watch it with audio in English or in Spanish. It goes by fast with the playback speed set at 1.

Every turfgrass manager knows that it is dangerous to grow the grass too slow. Something like this might happen. This bentgrass putting green in central Japan was growing too slow and shows problems with dollar spot, algae, slow recovery of pitchmarks, and senescing leaves.

Does this sound about right? Matching sand topdressing to the growth of the grass works out pretty good when applying 1 cm3 of sand for every 1 cm3 of clipping volume.