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Easily my favorite tweet of the week was: @PenderSuper This was a couple years ago 2014 Greens were "rolled" by mistake with greens roller 3 days after seeding pic.twitter.com/q9zg7J5UcZ — Robert Lee (@SPRobertLee) March 22, 2017 And in typical Twitter fashion the idea snowballed to produce my second favorite tweet of the week: @PenderSuper @SPRobertLee Good seed to soil contact here from Bobcat tire. pic.twitter.com/cHAuj6v2Bp — GaryC (@GaryCinChicago) March 23, 2017 Obviously, this is common knowledge but to see such a clear example is pretty cool. You can even see the gap between the steering rollers on his Tru Turf Roller. Yes, you can even tell the brand of roller based on the establishment pattern. This is something that Dr, Thom Nikolai also found in his rolling research. Check out the following video about rolling for seed bed preparation. While it might seem like common sense to refrain from rolling during establishment, Thom has some advise that might surprise

It's no secret that I, and many others in the area, have suffered winter damage on our greens. Needless to say I have done a ton of research on strategies to recover from the damage as quickly as possible. Long story short, it almost always requires temperatures to warm up. There are, however, a few tricks that I have picked up this winter that I haven't read about much online so I thought I would pass them on with hopes that maybe they will help speed up the recovery of any winter damaged grass you might have. Last month while at a turfgrass conference in Victoria, B.C. I had some awesome discussions with other turfgrass professionals about their experience with winter damage recovery. The following 2 strategies are things that I picked up from others, and will be trying and sharing about this spring. Seed Priming There really isn't much info out there about this relatively old practice. It's kind of funny because when it was suggested that I prime my seed to speed ger