Poa annua

Ball roll after 270 rounds
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.
2024-05-31 2 min read
Ball roll after 270 rounds
No Poa after 16 years
When a creeping bentgrass green is sixteen years old, do you expect to find some Poa annua in it? I do. When I see greens that age without noticing any Poa plants, I pay attention.
2024-04-29 1 min read
No Poa after 16 years
What we talk about when we talk about disturbance
When I think about disturbance, I think primarily of verticutting and hollow-tine coring and sand topdressing and then brushing that sand in. Such an approach—one with disturbance—requires a faster growth rate too, and higher nutrient inputs, in order to recover from the disturbance.
2021-07-25 2 min read
What we talk about when we talk about disturbance
Competition, stress, and disturbance
I completely forgot a few great articles when I put together this list of articles that are specifically not about turfgrass. One of those I forgot is Evidence for the existence of three primary strategies in plants and its relevance to ecological and evolutionary theory.
2019-10-31 3 min read
Competition, stress, and disturbance