Category: Plant Growth Regulator

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…