Category: Surfaces

Impact of Primo Max II compared to untreated turf

Light

See the Light for Early Season Actions

  Utilising growth potential in low light and scheduling Primo Maxx II applications              

Environment

Building turf resilience in a changing climate with smart water management

The irony isn’t lost on me that I’m writing about moisture management while many turf managers are dealing with waterlogged courses and unprecedented flooding. However I can’t shake the feeling we’ve been here before, last year’s notably soggy winter preceded an exceptionally dry spring and summer. These extreme weather patterns only reinforce the need for…

Surfaces

From Petri Dish to Putting Green – Turf Trial Insights

Heatwave impact on golf course turf

Summer

Some like it hot?

Surfaces

Penetrant wetting agents in summer??

This one popped up on a facebook thread the other day and it got me thinking about a trial we did in 2015 / 2016 at the STRI. The thread went something like this: Retentive type wetting agents hold too much moisture leading to more thatch accumulation and actually you should use penetrant type wetting…

Disease

Fairy Rings on Cricket Pitches

Thanks to the TurfCareBlog team for inviting me along to their turf chat tonight on Fairy Rings. Really interesting chat about the challenges of managing fairy ring on Cricket pitches. It’s a great blog – well worth a visit. Click here to go see…………… The interesting bit for me was talking about how to get…

Disease

After Effects of the Rain – Chasing Green Speed

With the significant rainfall we’ve had, I’ve been interested to see what’s going on with our soil moisture probes? During the dry weather you can see that the 5cm deep probe was slowly getting drier whilst the 15cm deep probe was slowly getting wetter? My assumption is that this is because the push up green…