It’s been a fairly quiet month with many sitting in very cold weather and some under snow cover since the end of December! No golf, no grass, no staff! The extended snow cover has caused some problems – John at Dufftown GC has shared these images with me on Twitter, worth saying that none of…
Auteur/autrice : Glenn Kirby
GDD – Why I’ve changed my mind
Last year I was talking a lot about using 6C as your base temp for timing your PrimoMaxxII programmes but now I think 0C is probably best. I shared this with the turf managers of the Nordics last week. Growth Degree Days are a really simple model for measuring temperature based activities. Generally there are…
Soil Temperatures for Fairy Ring – Cricket edition
I caught up with a whole selection of the County Cricket groundsman last week to talk about Fairy ring and it’s management. There are a few critical things with fairy ring: Manage your expectations The green rings you see are likely to be last years activity -short term positive results are more likely to be…
The days are getting longer
Fairy Rings – Questions from the TurfcareBlog team
I’ve had a few questions from our fellow bloggers over at the TurfcareBlog team about Fairy rings: What type of fairy are there and which ones are cause the most issues for turf managers? There are around 60 different fungal pathogens that are known to cause fairy rings and the way the display themselves in…
January FAQs 2021
As we head towards the end of the first month of 2021 – what has been the centre of this months conversations? Here are your frequently asked questions. Weather! I try and avoid weather if I can as Mr Hunt does a much better job blogging about weather than I ever could Link here….. However…
LeatherJackets Temperature response
I’ve put a couple of blogs together recently about Leather Jackets that have prompted some discussion. A recent Online survey we did gathered some serious momentum (thank you everyone) and gained over 410 submissions – that’s well over 10% of the golf clubs in the UK and therefore pretty representative of what is going on.…
Leatherjacket damage how much and where?
To contribute to this survey by adding the level of damage you’ve seen on your site click here…………. It’s become apparent recently that some Golf Clubs aren’t recognising how widespread a challenge managing greens under LeatherJacket pressure is. A quick social media survey revealed the below. Click here for latest version of report………….
LeatherJacket population counts
Over the Christmas holiday we began to see some LeatherJacket damage. In my last Blog I wrote about the journey the offending grubs have been on since birth. If you’re seeing damage or you feel there is a chance of LeatherJackets in your sward then having a good understanding of the population will help you…
LeatherJackets damage
It feels too soon but I was getting feedback of leatherjacket damage before Christmas on the South Coast. Peak flight was 15 weeks ago now and we’ve only just started to see some cold weather. The above chart shows how we’ve had some pretty good growth since the hatch until the Christmas period when the…