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I’ve made some movies with my friends to explain how the grammar of greenkeeping works. You may enjoy watching.

I’ve been doing some teaching, or demonstrating, how I use R software for data analysis in turf-related matters. See the full list of rturf posts. The initial project is about stimpmeter measurements and ClipVol.

I’ve been in a long and intermittent conversation with The Grass Factor team about a guest appearance on their show.1 It’s gone something like they invite me, I can’t due to schedule, then six months later they ask again, and I’ll be off on a long trip again, and I ask them to contact me again some months later.

I talked with Frank Rossi today on the ATC Doublecut. You can watch or listen to the show at the links. We discussed potassium (K) fertilizer, and why there are still recommendations for so much more K than the grass can use.

I had an enjoyable and wide-ranging conversation with Trent Manning on the Reel Turf Techs podcast. We talked about sand topdressing, clipping volume, cutting unit set-up, equipment operation, and a lot more, all focused on how to produce the best possible surfaces.

The ATC Doublecut podcast now has more than 150 episodes for your viewing or listening pleasure. Which ones have been listened to the most? My favorite episode to record was this one about locations in the world with 365 days in the year with a high GP for cool-season grass.

I prepared a new video about OM246. This video premiered at the Ontario Turfgrass Symposium last week, and it’s now available for worldwide viewing. I wasn’t able to get to Ontario for this event, but I was glad to have the opportunity to explain why OM246 testing is done, how it works, and what one can do with the results.

Joe Gulotti has invited me onto his The Talking Greenkeeper show for a year-end episode for a few years now. This year he called it “The Micah Woods Annual Holiday Special.

There are a lot of reasons to apply just the right amount of sand topdressing. Too much is no good, and too little is a problem too. The starting point with figuring out the right amount of sand to apply to your turfgrass is to know exactly how much you’ve been applying.

Here are three items that cover the topic of surface hardness, or the firmness of turfgrass surfaces, from all kinds of angles. Richard Forsyth is the director of courses at Royal Melbourne Golf Club.