It’s that time of year when LeatherJackets begin to become visible. Now is when I’d start to encourage people to start placing small sheets down on the surface of their playing surfaces to begin to evaluate the numbers of these pests they are dealing with and logging the results. I’d recommend small 1m2 square sheets…
Author: Glenn Kirby
Early Snowfall
In this month’s “On the horizon” Henry and I speak at some length about how the climate is warming and how Christmas is unlikely to be snowy! Well, as soon as we put the Podcast out, it goes super cold and starts to snow. The timing couldn’t be any better! Speaking of timing, I’ve recently…
How cold has November 2021 been?
After telling everyone on the Podcast that these Autumn / Winter months are getting warmer, I was beginning to feel pretty nervous as the last month has felt pretty chilly to me! I’ve had a look back at the data to see how we’ve compared back to 2008 – 2011 period just to see how…
November FAQs 2021
Acelepryn – whens it going to rain? Most of November’s conversations have been about ensuring Acelepryn applications have gone down in the best way possible. Many people took on our advice and aimed to apply Acelepryn around one month after peak flight (this year around the end of October / beginning of November) and rightly…
October FAQs 2021
October has been a mild month to date with plenty of disease pressure and as always there has been plenty of questions about which fungicide to use. These milder periods inspired me to put this blog together looking at how the temperatures look when you break them down into hourly chunks. I put this together…
Has October 2021 been a cold one?
One of the things Henry and myself have been chatting about “On the Horizon” is the concept of sub 2c stopping hours. It’s a concept we’ve developed to help us understand when we start to see weather that is cold enough to slow down the development of Microdochium patch and how variable it is across…
Late Cranefly emergence
After the heavy rainfall this weekend I had several course managers reporting a late emergence of Cranefly just when they thought it was all over! The obvious question on there mind was “Do I stick with my Acelepryn timing plans?“ The answer to that is yes. The more we study the emergence pattern of the…
FR321 latest STRI Data
As promised in this blog Here’s the latest in the FR321 trial we have going on at STRI which showed we could keep Microdochium pressure low by going early and preventative. We have continued to apply FR321 at monthly intervals Which we would NEVER recommended in the real world. We would always advise rotation of…
Can we go yet?
It feels like the whole of the last month I’ve been telling people to be patient and wait but has the time finally come when we can begin to apply Acelepryn? Well looking at this weeks PestTracker reported sightings I’d say we’re getting pretty close now and as a general rule in 2021 I’d be…
Turf Fungicide longevity using GDD
I get asked this one a lot – How long will my turf fungicide last? When you apply a fungicide there is a number of things going on: Reducing spore population around the plant Reducing spore population on the plant Defending and protecting the plant on the outside from new pathogen Getting into the plant…