OM246

One of the many ways to learn is through conversations with industry veterans. Their wisdom about how turf is managed now, and how it was managed in the past, can be invaluable.

You may be familiar with the grammar of greenkeeping. That’s what I call the approach to turfgrass maintenance that focuses on growth rate. As I wrote in the preface to the book with that title:

I prepared a new video about OM246. This video premiered at the Ontario Turfgrass Symposium last week, and it’s now available for worldwide viewing. I wasn’t able to get to Ontario for this event, but I was glad to have the opportunity to explain why OM246 testing is done, how it works, and what one can do with the results.

I was a guest on The Tie podcast where I spoke with Walker Simas about “Turf for Dummies.” Well, not quite to that extreme. We still managed to cover a lot of greenkeeping topics, but perhaps I explained the topics in a less technical way.

I was collecting OM246 samples at sunrise on a busy golf course near Bangkok on Tuesday, and I remembered that I was going to update the OM246 sampling instructions. That update is now made, so when you download the sampling instructions, you’ll get version 0.

Slides You can download the slides here: From Thursday, December 7: The inevitable consequences of regular rootzone measurements, 2.7 MB PDF file From Friday, December 8: Nutrition, growth, and surface performance

Slides You can download the slides here: Modern methods for real world data collection to improve input efficiencies and turf playability, 4.7 MB PDF file Notes During the seminar, I mentioned adjusting N rates by checking the actual clipping volume compared with the desired clipping volume.

This is one of those blog posts that I finally can move from the list of notes about what I might write about, to the published and completed section. > [2020-08-29 Sat] On my run this morning from […] to […] I was thinking that a little bit of quantitative like OM246, knowing nutrient supply, clipvol, it goes a long way in leading to improved turf conditions.

Slides You can download the slides here: November 6, Golf de Saint-Cloud, Un système moderne de gestion du gazon adaptée à chaque site, 6.5 MB PDF file November 7, Golf de Saint-Endréol, Un système moderne de gestion du gazon adaptée à chaque site, 5.

I used three sets of slides at this conference. You can download them at these links. MLSN: modern turfgrass nutrition Clipping volume, GP, and nitrogen OM246, organic matter/material, & sand topdressing See more about OM246 testing, including sampling instructions and a sample report, at the OM246 project page.