The top ten posts of 2022

These posts had the most views in 2022. As in past years, technical topics related to turfgrass management dominate this list.¹ Four of the top ten posts in 2022 were about soil organic matter or soil organic material; two were about fertilizer or turfgrass nutrition; and two were about irrigation or soil water content.

Here they are.

[1] January, An analysis of turfgrass industry Twitter accounts in 2021, repeating the analysis made in previous years.

[2] May, How I recommend fertilizer nutrient ratios, and an explanation for why I think everyone should do it this way.

[3] October, Coring: maybe the real benefit is something else? This post makes a case for coring being done to stimulate turfgrass growth.

[4] April, What if it was never there? If there is never too much organic material in the soil, nothing needs to be done to dilute it.

[5] March, University of Florida visit and seminar with some lively photos and a screencast of my presentation.

[6] May, Soil and water management: 3 primary problems, with solutions looks at salinity and leaching fractions, sodicity or sodium hazard, and nutrient deficiencies.

[7] January, “I have always heard deep and infrequent was the way to go”—that’s what I thought at one time too, about irrigation, but that’s not how I think about it now.

[8] April, Organic material accumulates more rapidly in putting green soils under these two conditions, specifically when the soil organic matter is low to begin with, and when putting greens are young.

[9] July, The least enjoyable experiment ever involved a lot of product mixing.

[10] December, Some surprising results about playability and the ability to topdress less frequently and in lower quantities than I once thought possible.