MLSN

We provide soil testing services for clients around the world through Brookside Labs, and have an active research program in the area of turfgrass nutrition, soil and plant analysis, and sampling methods.

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

Minimum levels for sustainable nutrition—MLSN—is a modern method for interpreting soil tests for turfgrass.

Imagine managing turf without being able to use any pesticides. Then imagine a DP World Tour event gets scheduled at your course. Knowing that the conditions will be visible on television to a global audience, to tens of thousands of spectators on site, and that some of the world’s top golfers will be scrutinizing every bit of the surface underfoot and under the ball, you’d be a little nervous, wouldn’t you?

There have been some new developments with MLSN, thanks to John Emerson, Jr.. In the USGA Green Section Record, he published Indexing the Soil Nutrient Status of Turfgrass Systems to Develop Regional MLSN Guidelines: A Delaware Case Study.

I was a guest on the USGA Green Section podcast for an episode with the title Hot Takes on Turf with Dr. Micah Woods. Host John Petrovsky asked a range of questions that I found quite interesting, and I hope you will too.

Turfgrass nutrition (and related) research The slides as a 2.9 MB pdf file are available for download here. These links have information related to our discussions: Turner & Waddington’s 1978 article: Survey of soil testing programs for turfgrass Xu et al.

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Joe Gulotti asked me back to The Talking Greenkeeper studio this week for what he calls an “annual holiday extravaganza.” We had a holiday-worthy talk about MLSN, putting green smoothness, my acting skills, travel, and efficient greenkeeping.

I’ve been in a long and intermittent conversation with The Grass Factor team about a guest appearance on their show.1 It’s gone something like they invite me, I can’t due to schedule, then six months later they ask again, and I’ll be off on a long trip again, and I ask them to contact me again some months later.