Fusariummy

It wasn't the easiest year for growing grass , but the conditions were still pretty good. Almost 4 years ago exactly, I came up with the idea of comparing actual clipping yields to the "ideal" clipping yield or the clipping yield adjusted using the Growth Potential Model . Since then, it has proved to be a much more useful tool to manage growth than I originally thought .  It has been almost a decade since I started making observations on plant health and playability and how it relates to the clipping yield. I have been constantly searching for ways to get the growth rate right as often as I can and this tool seems to be the best way I have seen so far, and might ultimately, be the best way going forward. To prove this point I will discuss in a future post, the success I've had with pest control in the past few years (for the most part (Not withstanding the times where I think my greens are dead but they actually aren't...thanks T)). Never needed less There are ...

Weather plays a big roll in how difficult a growing season might be. Things like temperature and rainfall are completely out of our control but also have a huge impact on what is possible to achieve for golf course maintenance operations. I've looked at many different ways to quantifying how weather can help or hinder my operations and have found that it's not as easy as it might first seem. There are a few techniques that I have come across that can paint a general picture of the weather may have impacted your growing season. I've been a big time user of the growth potential since 2012 when I first learned about how Micah Woods was using it to calculate potential fertilizer use. The growth potential is a temperature based growth model and can make a bit more sense out of temperature data and how it might impact turfgrass growth. This is because turf growth isn't directly proportional to temperature.  At low temperatures there is little growth but once you get past a ce...