Awesome graphs and cool season grasses!
This trip included one of the best discussion and presentations about Dr. Woods' climate maps and also put me back in touch with cool season turfgrasses. A major issue I saw in Beijing was the desire to start using Kentucky bluegrass throughout the fairways. ...
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May
2012
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Hong Kong Clouds and Beijing Botanizing
The seminar was at Clearwater Bay, a course with manilagrass tees, fairways, and roughs. We saw a little bit of dollar spot and heard from superintendent Darry Koster about his preventative fungicide program for large patch (caused by Rhizoctonia solani). It gets just cold enough at Hong Kong for large...
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May
2012
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Two-Wheeled Vehicles and Zoysia Putting Greens
We headed to Twin Doves Golf Club where I had my opportunity to see a wall-to-wall Seashore paspalum (Platinum TE variety) golf course. While the course looked great from a distance, it was clear that the grass selection presented its own challenges. While Micah can talk more about this from...
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May
2012
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Saigon, San Miguel, and Shade
Except for the superb mountain course at Dalat, with a lot of kikuyugrass (Pennisetum clandestinum) on the fairways and creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera) greens, all courses at Vietnam have been planted to seashore paspalum or bermudagrass. This is a mistake....
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May
2012
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Singapore and Thailand from my perspective
Our first stop during the 2012 Asian Turfgrass Roadshow took us to Singapore. For me, it was about 22 hours in the air (through Tokyo) and a 12:30AM arrival on Monday night/Tuesday morning. Knowing that I wasn't going to be able to sleep right off the flight, I had recent...
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May
2012
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Turfgrass Seminars at Singapore and Bangkok
The Asian Turfgrass Roadshow 2012 started with a seminar at Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore, host site for the European Tour’s Singapore Open. Dr. John Kaminski, with only a few hours of sleep after his travel from the other side of the world, exactly twelve time zones away, gave two...
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Apr
2012
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Fungicide book, and thinking about summer patch – earlier than usual
It’s been awhile since we’ve plugged this book, so I’ll do it again: It’s a terrific resource for any turfgrass manager. You can find more details about the contents and purchase it at this website: http://www.apsnet.org/apsstore/shopapspress/Pages/43924.aspx Summer patch Summer patch symptoms tend to...
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Apr
2012
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Frost impacts new growth in lawns
The unprecedented warm weather in March led to all sorts of plant anomalies, including early flowering in trees and shrubs, germination of annual grasses, and spring green-up of cool-season turf. Although perennial cool-season grasses are well equipped to withstand sudden and extreme temperature drops, new, succulent leaf tissues are susceptible...
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Apr
2012
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Early early early
The temps have been warmer than normal, in some cases WAY warmer. Here in Manhattan it was 89 on April 1. Even the warm-season grasses are growing like mad. Along with the early plant growth, plant diseases are...
06
Apr
2012
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Some Much-Needed Rain and Some Unwanted Diseases
In Oklahoma and the Southern Plains, we received some much-needed rain to help offset the drought that has persisted over the last year or so. Some areas of Oklahoma received as much as six inches of rain over the last 10 days. Many have welcomed this, but it...
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Mar
2012
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An Excellent Question Without a Good Answer
What's that question? It is the one posed most frequently by delegates to this week's Sustainable Turfgrass Management in Asia 2012 conference: How can we control bermudagrass in seashore paspalum? The conference saw 210 delegates from 20 countries assemble at Thailand's popular beach resort of Pattaya to discuss turfgrass management...
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Mar
2012
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A New Year and Winter Meetings
Happy belated New Year! I know I haven’t had a recent contribution to the blog, but things got pretty busy for the Turf Team at Oklahoma State University this fall and into the new year. We had our 66th Annual Oklahoma Turfgrass Conference and Trade Show in Stillwater in...
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Jan
2012
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Social Media Tips
In Episode 5 we discussed the issues surround the term “sustainability” in golf course management operations. There was a lot of good discussion about what exactly that means and ways to become more sustainable. It is likely that this will become an in-depth topic for a future #turfchat. Many thanks to those who participated in this weeks #turfchat. Scott Morrison Bill Brown John Kaminski Larry Stowell David Soldvedt Joey Young Cale Bigelow Caution! Technical difficulty with the sound, so skip to 14:40 of the episode to get started! Watch live streaming video from turfdiseases at livestream.com Want to join us...
This episode we are talking about how to maximize your pesticide applications and provide some tools and tips and tricks for making your sprays more effective. Many thanks to those who participated in this weeks #turfchat. Chris Tritabaugh Bill Brown John Kaminski Larry Stowell Watch live streaming video from turfdiseases at livestream.com Want to join us live for an upcoming episode of #turfchat? Simply sign up for a free account on Google+ and send John Kaminski a message. You will be added to his “turfgrass” circle and will then receive invitations for all upcoming episodes....
Today we were talking about grain as it relates to golf course putting greens. This episode was the brainchild of Larry Stowell and was inspired by the video that he posted on the PACETURF YouTube Channel. Many thanks to those who participated in this weeks #turfchat. Bob Porter Chris Tritabaugh Bill Brown Jason Kruse John Kaminski Larry Stowell Watch live streaming video from turfdiseases at livestream.com Want to join us live for an upcoming episode of #turfchat? Simply sign up for a free account on Google+ and send John Kaminski a message. You will be added to his “turfgrass” circle...
Today we were talking about winter preparation including how the summer was for golf course superintendents, what they are doing now in terms of getting the course back into shape and what plans they have for managing winter problems like snow mold. Many thanks to those who participated in this weeks #turfchat. Chris Greene Chris Tritabaugh Jason Kruse John Kaminski Larry Stowell Watch live streaming video from turfdiseases at livestream.com Want to join us live for an upcoming episode of #turfchat? Simply sign up for a free account on Google+ and send John Kaminski a message. You will be added...
One of the things that I try to impress upon my students at Penn State is the importance of communications in the profession of turfgrass management. They will often hear me saying “growing grass accounts for about 10 to 15% of what your job will entail once you’re in charge. The rest of your time will be spent communicating.” Now this communication will come in various forms, but probably the most important will be communicating with your greens committee or members. As many of you know, there have been a lot of advancements (some good and some not so good)...
For those of you who know me, you know that I am crazy about social media and while there are still many out there who shew away anyone that brings up the topic, I feel that there are enough bloggers out there in the turf industry that it warrants its own section on our site. So I imagine now you will be asking, “So what are you going to post in this social media section of the blog?”. Well, that’s a good question. I THINK the plan is to provide tutorials, examples and short little tips and tricks to making...
from www.techdigest.tv For those of you that have come to know me on this site, you probably also know that I am nuts. This is the kind of crap that keeps me busy during my insomnia in the middle of the night. Although this information is probably useful for web developers to make sure that the site shows up similarly across different platforms, I don’t really have that much interest in the information. BUT, I do like the way that Google Analytics allows us to visualize the information. Without further adieu, here are the top browsers used to surf the...
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