When I received the question about tissue testing, I replied that I would write a more detailed explanation later on the blog. I’ve tried to do this here without resorting to numbers or charts.
Yesterday I wrote of tissue testing (or more specifically, leaf nutrient analysis) that “I don’t like making nutrient application decisions” based on it and “I would not do routine tissue testing if I were a golf course superintendent.
This question arrived by e-mail:
“I have a couple questions –
A colleague and I in this area have been reducing N usage and tracking clipping yields for almost 2 years.