Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe GvX, #OM246, and #MLSN with John Petrovsky
Episode 175
John Petrovsky is manager of USGA Green Section Education. He is also the host of the USGA Green Section podcast. We discussed a recent episode about…
11 months, 1 week ago
GP and ClipVol in the UK with Geoff Fenn
Episode 174
Geoff Fenn and I discussed the use of the turfgrass growth potential (GP) in the UK, optimum temperatures, the GvX, clipping volume, and more in this…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Green speed went down by 0.6 inches per hour
Episode 173
I discussed some green speed and green firmness data from measurements made at the Sky RKB Ladies Classic tournament, and I explained why the geometr…
1 year ago
Learning & remembering from a year of turf photos
Episode 172
In this episode I picked some of my favorite photos from 2024, and I remembered what I learned from them. From roots, layers, OM246, zoysia greens, a…
1 year ago
Surface firmness and soil water content
Episode 171
There have been a lot of conversations about soil water content and surface hardness (firmness). I discuss some measurements that I have made, and su…
1 year ago
The turf GvX for checking grass growth with Jason Haines
Episode 170
Jason came up with the GvX idea in a flash of inspiration that he describes here. This is the actual growth of the grass compared to the expected gro…
1 year, 1 month ago
Living plant material (and thatch) are part of #OM246 too
Episode 169
Achieving the lowest possible #OM246 total organic material value is not desirable, because the living plant material is part of the OM measured with…
1 year, 1 month ago
Calculation of the average daily temperature
Episode 168
A common way to calculate average daily temperature is to take the sum of the daily maximum and daily minimum temperatures, and to divide by two. A b…
1 year, 1 month ago
The ATC blog post bombs of 2024 with Joe Gulotti
Episode 167
Joe Gulotti joined me to discuss his new job, The Talking Greenkeeper, and the ten posts on the ATC website that no one (practically) read in 2024.
Th…1 year, 2 months ago
Fertilizing grass this way seems strange to me now
Episode 166
Although turf research is often done with fertilizer treatments applied at constant rates and on a fixed calendar schedule, that way of supplying nut…
1 year, 2 months ago