Category: Weather

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…

If you are in the UK you will know its been very hot recently, and Ireland has seen its share of the heat wave also; Dublin’s Phoenix Park recorded 33.1C (91.4F). The hottest day in 135 years across the island of Ireland. I saw on the news that the UK had its hottest night on…

Like the other plant health inputs, water, nutrition and air, grass needs light. And like all things in life its not that simple. Each of these inputs has an optimum or ‘Goldie Locks’ zone. For water; too little and the plant withers and dies, too much and it becomes waterlogged and dies. The same is…