With the significant rainfall we’ve had, I’ve been interested to see what’s going on with our soil moisture probes? During the dry weather you can see that the 5cm deep probe was slowly getting drier whilst the 15cm deep probe was slowly getting wetter? My assumption is that this is because the push up green… Read More After Effects of the Rain – Chasing Green Speed
My regular readers will know that my last blog was all about just how dry things have been this year!!!!!! Well pretty much the moment I published that Blog it started raining and it’s only just stopped! Or at least that’s how it felt on my travels this week. This week I’ve been on tour… Read More The Wet Week – Sustaining Healthy Turf
When is it going to rain again? A lot of people I’m talking to at the moment are studying the forecast to see when, if and how much rainfall is coming. The above image shows the UK’s monthly rainfall compared to the 1981 -2010 average. The white to blue colours show average – wetter than… Read More Lack of Rainfall and Soil Moisture Levels
With a few more Chafer sightings come in over the weekend and some rain on the horizon. If you are targeting Chafer Grubs then Friday the 7th June is a good time to apply Acelepryn in the South where sightings of Chafer have been recorded. There have been fewer sightings the further North you go… Read More Acelepryn Application Window
Although many are suffering with leatherjacket issues still, the Cranefly sightings have begun to slow down a little. The time to apply Acelepryn is still during peak hatch in the Autumn, as that’s our best chance of hitting the largest population. The Spring hatch is still mirroring the dry areas from last Autumn. As predicted… Read More PestTracker – latest update and advice
Thanks everyone for logging your sightings, over 100 Pest views logged so far. So just one week into our data collection project PestTracker and what have we learnt? Tap here to log your sightings. The above heat maps shows the reported sightings on the 17th May 2019 At first glance there is a fairly obvious… Read More Syngenta Pest Tracker – the sightings keep coming in
All last year I was telling people how the Tipula Oleracae was a fairly rare species and the only Cranefly species we had to really worry about was the Paludosa. Well once again, I was wrong and true to form the more I learn the less I really I know. So what’s the difference? The… Read More Early Cranefly – Syngenta Pest Tracker
Last years emergency approval for Acelepryn gave me the opportunity to spend time with many turf managers who’ve successfully used the product and gave me a chance to understand how to get the best out of it. The challenges involved with applying a preventative insecticide are obvious. If applied and the target pest comes late… Read More Acelepryn: 7 Steps to Success – Timing
Getting the best out of Acelepryn is really important. The application rates in modern approved products are very low and whilst the Active Ingredients are incredibly effective there is very little margin of error built in as there has been in the past. To ensure you get the most from your acelepryn application it’s important… Read More Acelepryn: 7 Steps to Success – Water Volume and Application
I get a number of questions when I visit clubs about applying Acelepryn with wetting agents. The Active Ingredient in Acelepryn is VERY slow to move through the profile. In fact, all modern pesticides need to be either very quick at degrading or very slow at moving through the soil profile so they reduce the… Read More Acelepryn: 7 Steps to Success – Wetting Agent
