growth ratio

This note below, about the temperature-based turfgrass growth potential (GP), has been sitting in my blog_posts.org1 file for a while now, as one of those topics to write about sometime. When I read the note I jotted down when I created this entry, I realized I wouldn’t have to do much to turn this into a blog post.

This is a common question. I heard another one recently, too. “How big of a bucket should I get to measure clipping volume?” I like to answer these questions by looking at the site-specific conditions.

This can seem a bit abstract, the whole growth ratio thing. In this post, I go step-by-step through the reasoning behind this, and explain exactly which problem this solves. There’s a common question that people have when they start measuring the exact amount of clipping volume.

A question came up about optimum clipping volume and whether that quantity of clippings changes by season. That amount must change for any location at which there are seasonal changes in the weather.