Warm Season
april 19
Potassium, Snow Mold, and (almost) Required Reading About Fertilizer
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Ten years ago, when I was a graduate student at Cornell University, I noticed something surprising when the snow melted from the research green. The previous year, I had applied the same amount of nitrogen (N), but different amounts of potassium (K), to this plot ...
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Agrostology in the East China Sea
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I'm spending this month at Ishigaki, located in the far south of Japan in the Ryukyu Islands. In fact, I'm a little south of Taipei, at the same latitude as Key West, Florida. Located at the boundary between the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea, these islands have a...
Grand Palace in Beijing
Awesome graphs and cool season grasses!
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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. ...
Axonopus compressus fairways in Manila
Two-Wheeled Vehicles and Zoysia Putting Greens
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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 his experience, it was evident that the grass was...
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Saigon, San Miguel, and Shade
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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....
Singapore
Singapore and Thailand from my perspective
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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 graduate (Shane Lee) pick me up at the airport and to the bars we went. We had a great time catching up on his pursuit of a job in the region and he showed me...
Zoysia matrella at left and Cynodon dacytlon at right in Singapore
Turfgrass Seminars at Singapore and Bangkok
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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 lively and coffee-fueled presentations, while I spoke about turfgrass research results from projects I have been involved with in Asia over the past six years. One of those projects involves bermudagrass white leaf, which I have called the most unsightly disease in the world, and I explained how plants infected...
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Our Report on the Asian Turfgrass Roadshow 2012
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Over the past ten days, Dr. John Kaminski and I traveled together from Singapore to Bangkok, to Ho Chi Minh City and Manila, to Hong Kong and to Beijing. We spoke at six seminars as part of the Asian Turfgrass Roadshow, met with over 300 golf course superintendents from around the region, visited multiple turfgrass sites, saw some interesting diseases, ate at some fine restaurants, made a lot of new friends, took great photos, and one of us purchased a panda hat. The full story, told by both of us, is coming up next week. Here’s an introduction....
When is Scalping a Good Thing?
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When is scalping a good thing? When it teaches us something useful. In parks and commercial landscapes in Southeast Asia, the normal maintenance for broadleaf carpetgrass (Axonopus compressus) or manilagrass (Zoysia matrella) involves infrequent mowing at low mowing heights. Grass may be allowed to grow to a height of 30 to 50 mm (1.25 to 2 inches) or higher and then it will be scalped down with a string trimmer nearly to ground level, to something less than 12 mm (0.5 inch). See the video below from a resort at Pai in northern Thailand. I was here recently for some...
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