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
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
I talk to a lot of Turf managers and I’ve regularly heard this month just how dry it’s been. The below chart shows how it’s been an interesting month as rainfall hasn’t been average but significantly wetter or dryer than the “average year” dependent on your location. But of course, rainfall is only part of… Read More Dry April?
Soil moisture levels across the UK. Investigated. I’ve been watching the soil moisture probes we have in the ground at Corhampton Golf club closely hoping they’d give me a real indication of what’s going on in the soil and how they could help to get optimum irrigation timings. They certainly helped identify that each green… Read More Bank Holiday Dry Down – Soil Moisture Levels
My weekend in Gower in South Wales with the family was interrupted a little by some pretty frightening gorse fires. Now South Wales isn’t renowned for its dry weather and whilst the commons are regularly burnt in a controlled manner out of bird nesting season to see something on this scale first hand was pretty… Read More Gower Blaze – Pretty Frightening
I had the great pleasure of visiting Duncan and Iestyn at Corhampton this week so we could put together an article on the award wining Operation Pollinator work they’re doing. We were discussing the amazing chalk scrapes that they’ve done and talking about the best method of getting wildflower seed to germinate in these this… Read More Seed to Soil contact
Loading… March was dry, temperatures fairly good and last weeks Twitter feed was full of stunning looking golf courses. It’s at this time of the year things begin to start moving, all the winter projects feel like they were worth it and the compliments begin rolling in. For a long time, we’ve associated this change… Read More March light – Turf Growth
I’ve seen a bit of Twitter activity recently about the dry weather and how things are drying out from the wetter early part of March. As we’ve now had a few days of dry weather using the moisture probes we have in the ground we can begin to plot some trends. The below video shows… Read More Spring Dry down – Soil Moisture Levels
I had the pleasure of visiting 3 golf courses recently – all of whom have undertaken greens maintenance operations of some sort. As I travel around talking to people about their disease management programmes, challenges and successes I think I’m beginning to see a correlation between August renovation weeks and high levels of fungicide use.… Read More Greenkeeping and Golf Courses – Renovation Challenges
