Application Quiz – Droplet size

We’ve worked with ICL to develop an Online quiz (link here) to help support you guys and girls out there spraying – in this blog series I intend to go through each question, give you an in depth answer and a few useful links. Finer droplets will lead to…. More liquid remaining on the leaf…

Application Quiz – Water volume

We’ve worked with ICL to develop an Online quiz (link here) to help support you guys and girls out there spraying – in this blog series I intend to go through each question, give you an in depth answer and a few useful links. Which is the most effective way to significantly adjust your water…

March FAQs 2021

Also available as a PodCast – Check it out here … Click here to listen……….. As I write this and I scan Twitter looking for inspiration (not procrastinating – honest!) I’m stunned by the high levels of presentation I’m seeing as people put in some big shifts doing some last minute prep for members to…

Leatherjacket monitoring idea

Monitoring for leatherjackets is a very simple and easy way to establish the scale of the problems you’re likely to see in the upcoming weeks. It’s fairly simple to do, only this week I was doing 25 of them in one of our trials to assess levels of control over the winter. It only needs…

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Primo Maxx II – when to start?

At this time of year I regularly get asked when should I start my Primo Maxx programme. I’ve added some additional complexities to it this year, because I’ve been talking a lot about growth degree days. Primo Maxx has been used for a long time now and I’ve seen a lot of different timings and…

Wetting agents – Too Early?

I’m getting a few phone calls at the moment from super organised people out there who are planning their wetting agent programmes for this year. One of the questions I get asked regularly is how early should I start? This isn’t a very difficult question to answer, the earlier you start go better. The key…

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February FAQs 2021

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…