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One of the many ways to learn is through conversations with industry veterans. Their wisdom about how turf is managed now, and how it was managed in the past, can be invaluable.

Searching for zoysia seedheads beside the Gulf of Thailand. Ninety-seven months ago I wrote a post with the title 99 article titles. That post listed the first 99 articles I’d written in my series for ゴルフ場セミナー (Golf Course Seminar) magazine.

The usual way of thinking about soil nutrients and turf quality is something like this: when the amount of a soil nutrient is low, the turf quality won’t be as good as it would be if that nutrient were more abundant in the soil.

You may be familiar with the grammar of greenkeeping. That’s what I call the approach to turfgrass maintenance that focuses on growth rate. As I wrote in the preface to the book with that title:

Remember the experiment I wrote about that evaluated a lot of different fertilizer “programs”? The control treatment in that experiment was urea, monoammonium phosphate, potassium sulfate, and ferrous sulfate. That urea-based treatment, which Dr.

You may have seen the maps of monthly growth potential through the seasons from PACE Turf. Those animated maps take the average temperature, convert it to a growth potential, and then color code a map of the USA with that animation.

This is one of the many interesting things I’ve been working on recently. A standard soil test for turfgrass is taken to a 10 cm depth (4 inches below the soil surface).

I use a method based on clipping harvest and normal leaf nitrogen content to find the estimated nitrogen harvest. I adjust this based on species, because there are differences in the clipping volume to dry mass conversion based on what type of leaf we are working with.

I was searching the Turfgrass Information File for another topic and came across this article by John Baranski, CGCS, from the proceedings of the 1993 GCSAA Conference and Show in Anaheim.

T-Jay Creamer is the golf course superintendent at Olympic View GC in Victoria, British Columbia. The greens there are a mix of bentgrass and Poa annua, and as of May 2024 it’s considerably more Poa than bent.