Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUrea as putting green fertilizer for complete control of tournament greens
Episode 35
The topic for this episode was fertilizer, and Andrew McDaniel joined me to discuss this post: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/how-to-spend-5000-…
3 years, 11 months ago
4 tools to measure putting green firmness
Episode 35
The post discussed in this episode is https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/surface-hardness-correlations/. I planned to discuss this one also but deci…
3 years, 11 months ago
Turfgrass rootzones: a carbon-rich, nitrogen-poor world
Episode 34
Joe joined me to talk about one of the least read blog posts of 2018. This one, about soil microbes being in an environment with ample carbon, but be…
4 years ago
Elemental nutrient ratios as fertilizer recommendations, and a trip to see zoysia greens in the USA
Episode 33
I find it really useful to consider nutrient applications as ratios rather than as quantities. Read more in this post: https://www.asianturfgrass.com…
4 years ago
Is the extra hole on Kawana's Fuji Course the best in the world? I think so. Plus, tropical #ClipVol
Episode 32
Andrew McDaniel (https://twitter.com/drumcturf) joined me as a special guest on this episode to talk about the extra hole at Kawana's Fuji Course (ht…
4 years ago
Putting green firmness, speed, and roll quality at the Catalunya Championship
Episode 31
The charts shown in this episode with Clegg, TDR, stimpmeter, and #BobbleTest scores are available in this blog post: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/…
4 years ago
Grass can grow too slow, plus Tom Cook's lawn and 2 tournaments in Spain
Episode 30
It is easy to know when grass grows too slow: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/dangerous-grow-too-slow/
Tom Cook's extraordinary lawn (blog post): …
4 years, 1 month ago
Soil organic matter accumulates more rapidly in young greens with lower OM content to begin with
Episode 29
This is an obvious concept but the implications are complex. If soil organic matter accumulates more rapidly in young soils, and if one wants to mana…
4 years, 1 month ago
What if the soil organic matter was never there to begin with?
Episode 28
I discuss my visit to (and seminar at) the University of Florida, and consider whether soil organic matter content stability over time might be relat…
4 years, 1 month ago
MLSN & "deficiencies", tissue test manifesto, & Ireland conference presentations
Episode 27
I discuss two presentations from the ATPI conference in Galway, Ireland, how one might think about soil "deficiencies" when doing soil test interpret…
4 years, 1 month ago