MLSN

We provide soil testing services for clients around the world through Brookside Labs, and have an active research program in the area of turfgrass nutrition, soil and plant analysis, and sampling methods.

My books about greenkeeping, turfgrass science, clipping volume, and MLSN.

Minimum levels for sustainable nutrition—MLSN—is a modern method for interpreting soil tests for turfgrass.

Optimising turf: Growth, organic matter, and nutrients Presentation slides from this class conducted on 19 January 2025, in handout form (11.6 MB pdf file) OM246 calculator for sand rates One Bucket at a Time ebook about ClipVol Biofertilizers, soil conditioners, and biostimulants Turf GvX: growth versus expected Presentation slides from this conference seminar on 21 January 2025, in handout form (2.

Joe Gulotti asked me back to The Talking Greenkeeper studio this week for what he calls an “annual holiday extravaganza.” We had a holiday-worthy talk about MLSN, putting green smoothness, my acting skills, travel, and efficient greenkeeping.

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.

When I make nutrient recommendations, I recommend a quantity of each element that ensures the grass can get all of that nutrient that the grass can use. I also make the recommendation with a thought about the soil.

A couple of the science and statistics blogs I follow have recently shared AI-generated audio summaries of research papers. The ones I’ve seen were from Google’s NotebookLM. I hadn’t been using this, with most of my LLM (large language model) use over the past couple years being ChatGPT.

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:

Frank Rossi and Carl Schimenti had a discussion on the Cornell Turfgrass Show about soil testing, fertilizer, the Park Grass experiment, weeds, and some good ways to sell fertilizer. Also, that perennially hot topic of silicon.