Category: Plant Growth Regulator

As turf management levels increase and golfers return and the Lockdown Trials reach week 7 it’s time to draw some conclusions. Whats the point? Maybe it’s the fact that I had another birthday this week – (thanks for all the kind birthday wishes, What a nice bunch you are) or maybe it’s just that I’ve…

Quick one this week as it’s half-term and I’m attempting to spend a bit of time with the kids! Which means squeezing one week’s work into two days – but I appreciate that’s nothing compared to the challenges you people are under! I’m seeing a lot of images on social media at the moment of…

What’s new this week? We’ve dropped the cutting height on the whole trial down one mm in cutting height in one go – a suggestion that was met with a few deep breaths by the team at STRI who are the custodians of good practice. However in this situation, in order to keep the trial…

OK, you all know the score, we all need to stay alert unless you’re in Scotland or Wales, in which case you need to stay at home. I’m allowed out as long as I’m alert but only if I have to be, unless I’m exercising, when I could be out all day as long as…

We’ve just launched our Growing Degree Day tool on Greencast. Please go and take a look. What is GDD? Growing Degree Days are simple tool that is used to measure the period of the day that is suitable for growing something. These models are used in agriculture, insect management, turf , etc. When Primo Maxx…

Last week I did a webinar on Plant Growth Regulators’s for BIGGA which appears to have got people looking at their turf care programs. If you missed it BIGGA have been good enough to let us have open access for all to to see. Here it is … One of the interesting things for me…

We all know how important water is to turf, I’m sure irrigation systems around the country are now in full swing. I wrote a few weeks back about the potential for a Spring dry down after a prolonged wet and miserable winter. And sure enough that’s exactly whats happened. The above graph shows how this…

Well life never stays the same does it .. the wet weather after a very dry spell seems to have kicked off disease for some, but for many grass growth has moved on very quickly. Sounds like a political soundbite!And after spending a great week in Scotland looking a variety of turf grass situations, the…