Last Chance Meetings Lead to Educational High
California Turfheads need the education hours that our wonderful state government requires for being a Qualified Pesticide applicator. It’s not a stiff requirement, a few hours of Laws and Regs and a...
View ArticleMy Perspective On The Most Important Part
It’s time. Recent forum discussions, people asking me and even Herr Peter have prompted me to get with it and talk about soils. I’m told that this is one of the things that people want to hear most...
View ArticleHumus Part 1: Not Dirty, Hairy!
The Difference between Dirt and Soil has to do with this amazing word: Humus. I love humus. I do. I spend time contemplating how it works, what it is about and how it affects everything that we do in...
View ArticleHumus Part 2: You Need Fungus, Brother!
When the word Fungus is mentioned, Turfheads often run for the spray rig. Regardless if you want to talk pesticide free turf or not, there has to be a better discussion on Fungi and the resulting role...
View ArticleHumus Part 3: Couldnt Stand The Weather?
I’ll never forget the first time that I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn play. I can’t. Because way before I ever saw him, I heard him. A friend who was a friend of a friend who was a roadie for The Police swore...
View ArticleToday’s Turfhead Poll, March 31
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View ArticleFairway Stress Conditioning: Primo Edition
I’ve got some definite ideas as it comes to pre-stress and early-stress conditioning of fairways. The first of these ideas is to use a growth regulator. If you’ve never done this or fiddled with doing...
View ArticleFlushing the Faux Flush
For the sake of discussion spanning geography, lets just assume that in most climates, at some point, push-up or all sand greens need to be flushed. Today I’m thinking about the word Flush and what it...
View ArticleRoll Your Greens, Mow The Clubhouse Lawn
I’m a huge fan of rolling and it’s time, you monkey, to roll! And I think that this time the art of doing something that a lot of us have said was good is actually going to be backed by the Science. At...
View ArticleHats Off To Atlanta Athletic Club In The Race To Beat The Tweeters
My twitter feed started going off and then emails and then texts. All of it about AAC and reports, big ugly reports of big ugly damage. It was this tweet that seemed to be at the heart of it all:...
View ArticleAnother Tip of The Cap Mangum from Feherty
There are times when it is just too much fun to get some credit and by goodness we don’t get enough. When everything and everyone does what they should in event golf, then a lot of people nod their...
View ArticleSometimes You Gotta Stink Up The Joint
I’m convinced that one of the main reasons that Turfheads dont embrace the concept of application of Organic Fertilizers is pretty simple—It Stinks. Seriously. Who really wants to offend the olfactory...
View ArticleThere Is Stuff To Be Thankful For And Stuff To Loathe
This is the time of year when people find reasons to list what they are thankful for. I’ve never been much for doing what everyone does. And I’m not real big on lists either. The creative types and...
View ArticleWater and soils management: to flush or not to flush
In most of my travels where water is an issue or drought is ruling or where reclaimed is the coming possibility, we have to deal with management of salts. So that can be the #1 driving force in...
View ArticleSierra Pacific Spring Symposium Live Blog Begins!
I’m excited. I haven’t slept in a couple days. My biggest event of the year is finally here. Months of organizing coming down to my printing name tags early this morning and driving the hour and a half...
View ArticleSpring Symposium, Dr. Clarke of Rutgers
Dr. Bruce Clarke of Rutgers talks about Fairy Ring and Pink Snow Mold. Big take away is that Bayleton very effective on Fairy Ring. Products applied before symptoms make for good control as long as...
View ArticleSpring Symposium, Dr. Fred Yelverton, NC State
It’s clear that Dr. Fred isn’t from around here. The accent is like smooth Carolina sweet tea. But the only Tea he’s talking about today has to do with Plant Growth Regulators. (sorry Dr. Fred. No...
View ArticleSpring Symposium, Dr. Frank Wong
I can’t hold it against him. Dr. Wong wanted to be with his wife in the DC area and well let’s face it, The University of California system is pretty much on life support. So now, Dr. Wong takes up...
View ArticleSpring Symposium, Joel Simmons
I can’t find a decent picture anywhere of Joel Simmons and it’s too dark to take a good picture, so this will have to do. Joel is on a mission. He’s good at it and he’s taken way to much crap for...
View ArticleSpring Symposium Day 2, Dr Bruce Clarke and Feast Recap
I love early morning meetings. 7:30 AM and we get hit with words like Systemic Acquired Resistance and Activator Triggers. It’s a warm yummy feeling, like maple syrup over bacon and waffles and I...
View ArticleOf Salts and Trees and Magic BioStimulants
I received this today in my email from a source that shall go unnamed because she/he/it is dumb enough to use the word Doctor around my name. Kind of like using the word Beautiful around Susan Boyle....
View ArticleTonic for Spring Confusion
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused....
View ArticleTime For A Little Transition
Its time for all of us to go through some kind of Transition. For the Turfhead, it usually happens sometime before Memorial Day. Regardless of what sort of climate you find yourself going to war in,...
View ArticleThere Is A Big White Sandwich-Making Sweater-Folding Elephant In My Truck
The largely unrealized goal this year was to write more blog posts. Inside of that goal has been my deep-seated desire to make Maestro Peter happy. He’d be hog slop happy with more agronomy writing...
View ArticleWater Is No Good If It Cannot Get In The Ground
Coming into summer, I’d like to talk about water for a few posts. It’s the thing that I seem to get the most questions about this time of year and it’s the thing that I see the most mistakes being made...
View ArticleContinuing to Classify Your Water
I’ve really enjoyed the feedback I’ve gotten in the field and in email about the idea of looking hard at irrigation water. Thanks for that! And the really important thing I’m hearing is the need for...
View ArticleA Guide to Yummy Tank Mixing Cocktails
I’d like to take a quick break from the water quality thing to share a recent experience from the field. Everybody tank mixes fertility products. In some form or another, you put stuff in the spray...
View ArticleSummertime Feeding?
The common question that I seem to be getting in the last few weeks has to do with feeding greens. While there can’t be a universal rule set for all the different climates we all work in, there are a...
View ArticleA Moment of Gratitude
To this day, I really don’t know what happened. I’ve heard some stories and have a few paper trail type details, but that’s it. After a string of 2,000 mile weeks, a notable in the golf world fumbling...
View ArticleVulcan Guide to Soil Testing
Soil Testing. It’s that time of year when most Turfheads are gonna pull some soil tests. My experience is that for many (if not most) this is done as kind of a box check. You know you have to do it,...
View ArticleBending or Breaking?
In my current, often schizophrenic situation, I find myself involved in the whole concept of Early Order Season. As I write this, there are no less than thirteen “programs” that in some way or another...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to a Job Poster
(I’m so completely baffled by a recent “change” at a club and the resulting communication around it that I needed to let some angst out of my fingers. You may be able to guess the details. Fine. Good...
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