irrigation

The Thailand GCSA’s Sustainable Turfgrass Management in Asia conference returned this week. Delegates from all over the world gathered in Pattaya to learn about the latest in turfgrass management—the tools, techniques, and technologies that can be used today.

Photos All the conference photos, taken by Boy Yothin, are available in this Google Drive folder. Slides You can download the slides here. Slides from Micah Woods Strategies to minimize disease with reduced fungicide use, 1.

How would I think of soil water content if I did not have a soil moisture meter? I’d think of it in volumetric water content, the same as if I did have a soil moisture meter.

On June 9, 2023, I was at Keya Golf Club in Fukuoka, Japan. The final round of the Landic Challenge 10 tournament was played that day. A morning view down the 10th hole at Keya Golf Club prior to the final round of the Landic Challenge 10 tournament.

Here’s an interesting new article by Katuwal et al.: Multilocational screening identifies new drought-tolerant, warm-season turfgrasses. This article describes the results for four species: bermudagrass, St. Augustinegrass, seashore paspalum, and zoysiagrass.

Here are three primary things to be concerned with when considering soil and water: salinity, the sodium hazard, and nutrient deficiencies. I explain solutions for each of these problems in this post, which was originally a handout for a seminar I gave on this topic some years ago.

This question about irrigation arrived and I think it’s worth explaining more about irrigation amounts and frequency. I was listening to the end of your conversation with Chris Tritabaugh1 and you guys briefly discussed using light and frequent vs.

I saw an article in the Global Golf Post that states zoysiagrass “requires … less water .. than bermuda[grass].” I guess there’s not much fact-checking in golf industry magazines, but that egregious error would have been corrected had the article been fact-checked.

Last year I wrote about manilagrass (Zoysia matrella) sod on highway medians in Thailand. I showed photos of a recently planted median, and explained why zoysia doesn’t persist in this environment when maintained without supplemental irrigation and regular mowing.

An easy way to relate inches of irrigation or inches of evapotranspiration (ET) to changes in volumetric soil water content (VWC)—that is something I could never figure out. I was thrilled to see the calculations shared by Bill Kreuser.