turf info

I asked Google’s NotebookLM for some help with this one. I have grown enough grass and seen enough bermudagrass and zoysiagrass growing together in wet and dry conditions to have formed an understanding about these grasses.

I’ve shared the posts from 2024 that got the most views. Then there are these 10 that got the fewest. For reference, the median post in the top 10 got 754 views in 2024.

These posts had the most views in 2024. They are on a nice balance of topics: temperature, sand topdressing, bentgrass and Poa annua and zoysiagrass and bermudagrass, playability, and the TurfGvX.

I use a method based on clipping harvest and normal leaf nitrogen content to find the estimated nitrogen harvest. I adjust this based on species, because there are differences in the clipping volume to dry mass conversion based on what type of leaf we are working with.

I’ve shared the posts from 2023 that got the most views. Then there are these 10 that got the fewest. For reference, the median post in the top 10 got 725 views in 2023.

These posts had the most views in 2023. They are on a nice balance of topics: three about growth rate and N, four about soil OM and surface hardness and topdressing, one about soil pH, and one about soil water content and evapotranspiration.

I’ve shared the posts from 2022 that got the most views. Then there are these 10 that got the fewest. Part of the reason for few views may be a lack of interest in the topic.

These posts had the most views in 2022. As in past years, technical topics related to turfgrass management dominate this list.1 Four of the top ten posts in 2022 were about soil organic matter or soil organic material; two were about fertilizer or turfgrass nutrition; and two were about irrigation or soil water content.

I’ve been doing some of the updates since spring, and all of them since mid-summer, and I list—below—all the 125 PACE Turf updates so far this year to show you the range of material covered.

I’ve recently acquired the PACE Turf information service from its founders, Drs. Wendy Gelernter and Larry Stowell. We’ve shared details of this in the Announcements section of the PACE Turf website, and this article by John Reitman at TurfNet has additional information.