roots

Layers in the rootzone are supposed to be bad. The images above and below look awful, don’t they? A layer like that could inhibit rooting, stop water flow, and all kinds of things.

When I saw how these grasses were growing at #ATC南店, I jotted down a couple notes for a future blog post—this one. when grass grows more, it makes more roots

Remember the Viridescent blog, with its 841 posts made from 1 January 2009 until I switched to this new site in 2017? I’ve summarized the top posts on that site by year, here, and today I checked the most viewed posts of all time.

I’d like to make three points. 1- Surfaces can be great, and the roots can be negligible. If the objective of greenkeeping work is to produce the desired surface, then one only needs enough growth to produce that surface.

I led a seminar in which I discussed how much one can expect grass to grow. During that seminar, I said something like: grass can always grow more, but turfgrass managers restrict the growth rate by supplying less nitrogen fertilizer than the grass can use.

Bhupendra Singh posted a photo on Instagram with this caption: Growing roots! Tifdwarf at Peacock Course Greens, Delhi Golf Club I wondered how the grass had been managed for the past six months.

This soil profile, showing how the soil has been modified after about 70 years of management as a golf course putting green, is absolutely fascinating. This photo is from a course in Sydney, Australia.