It Helps To Look Back When Planning Ahead: Part 1: Golf Turf

by a3c0657a_admin | Jan 18, 2020 | Golf, Turf Tips

If you have had similar problems in the last year or two, they are likely to recur in 2020. Use your winter conference time to ask questions of speakers and/or network in hallways with friends, sales reps, University Extension specialists and others, who probably can...

It Helps To Look Back When Planning Ahead: Part 2: Lawns

by a3c0657a_admin | Jan 18, 2020 | Lawn & Landscape, Turf Tips

Lawn care operators (LCO’s) encounter similar problems from year to year. In each year, however, weather patterns always are the “wild card.”  Weather conditions often explain the nature of pest activity, the erratic behavior of pesticides,...

It Helps To Look Back When Planning Ahead: Part 3: Sod Production

by a3c0657a_admin | Jan 18, 2020 | Turf Tips

There was a time not too long ago when sod growers produced crops without irrigation. Success was a real “crap-shoot” because they had to rely on Mother Nature to provide timely rains at seeding and to sustain crops until maturity. Summers following fall...

Indian Summer Fails To Materialize: Little Hope For Late-Season Seeding’s – Poa Flourishes!

by a3c0657a_admin | Dec 5, 2019 | Turf Tips

The best time to seed cool-season grasses (i.e., creeping bentgrass, perennial ryegrass, Kentucky bluegrass and fine and tall fescues) in our area of the mid-Atlantic region (i.e., between Philadelphia and Richmond) normally is late August to late October. My...

Malicious Moles and Other Turf Mounders

by a3c0657a_admin | Oct 25, 2019 | Golf, Lawn & Landscape, Pest Control, Turf Tips

Most turf nerds, like myself, are baffled and amazed by the incredible strength and endurance of relatively small animal pests, which  create mounds of excavated soil in lawns and golf turfs. Major mounding pests include moles (sometimes shrews and...