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Back to SearchFour things to look at with #OM246 test results
Episode 155
Here are four specific things to look at with total organic material by depth (#OM246) test results.
The blog post I discussed is this one: https://w…
1 year, 7 months ago
Golf course water requirement, overseeding, & Zoysia vs. bermudagrass with Dr. Matteo Serena
Episode 154
Matteo Serena is the Senior Manager of Irrigation Research and Services for the USGA. We discussed drip irrigation, growth regulators and soil surfac…
1 year, 7 months ago
GvX, top six episodes, and turf terminology
Episode 153
I checked the top episodes, discussed turf terminology, and discussed the 2025 GCSAA Outstanding Contribution Award winners Dr. Wendy Gelernter and D…
1 year, 7 months ago
Summer temperatures, turfgrass, and ΔGP
Episode 152
When the cool-season growth potential (GP) is lower than the warm-season GP, the difference between them (the ΔGP) will be negative. In this episode,…
1 year, 8 months ago
Google's NotebookLM & audio summaries of the MLSN, GSS, and Grammar of Greenkeeping projects
Episode 151
I wondered what NotebookLM could do, so I created a couple notebooks. One has the title “Global Soil Survey,” and in that notebook I uploaded article…
1 year, 8 months ago
Browntop greens, Poa annua suppression, pH, & OM testing with Grant Saunders
Episode 150
Grant Saunders is the course superintendent at Hamilton Golf Club in New Zealand. He has successfully overseen a green species conversion from Poa an…
1 year, 8 months ago
Using #OM246 test results to get net organic material accumulation rate
Episode 149
When you know the rate at which organic material is accumulating in the rootzone, you can adjust sand topdressing rates with more precision. You can …
1 year, 8 months ago
Tournaments and the "grammar" with T-Jay Creamer
Episode 148
T-Jay Creamer is the golf course superintendent at Olympic View Golf Club in western Canada. He joined me to discuss tournament golf maintenance and …
1 year, 8 months ago
My visit to Delaware with Joe Gulotti (The Talking Greenkeeper)
Episode 147
A month ago Joe Gulotti and I walked the fairways and greens of the Montchanin Course at Dupont Country Club. I wrote a blog post about that, and we …
1 year, 9 months ago
A turf paradox: better turf in soils with lower nutrient content
Episode 146
You can sometimes, perhaps more often than you would think, find soil under good turf to have lower nutrient content than does soil under poor qualit…
1 year, 9 months ago