Turf Diseases

TurfChat #12: Is Ca+ Necessary?

Turf Diseases — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:36:10 +0000

In this episode, Larry Stowell of Pace Turf and Micah Woods of Asian Turfgrass Center share their thoughts on the role of Ca+ as a foliar

TurfChat #12: Is Ca+ Necessary?

Awesome graphs and cool season grasses!

John Kaminski — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:13:43 +0000

This trip included one of the best discussion and presentations about Dr. Woods' climate maps and also put me back in touch with cool season turfgrasses. A major issue I saw in Beijing was the desire to start using Kentucky bluegrass throughout the fairways.

Awesome graphs and cool season grasses!

Hong Kong Clouds and Beijing Botanizing

Micah Woods — Tue, 08 May 2012 04:00:10 +0000

The seminar was at Clearwater Bay, a course with manilagrass tees, fairways, and roughs. We saw a little bit of dollar spot and heard from superintendent Darry Koster about his preventative fungicide program for large patch (caused by Rhizoctonia solani). It gets just cold enough at Hong Kong for large patch to be a problem on

Hong Kong Clouds and Beijing Botanizing

Two-Wheeled Vehicles and Zoysia Putting Greens

John Kaminski — Sat, 05 May 2012 04:00:37 +0000

We headed to Twin Doves Golf Club where I had my opportunity to see a wall-to-wall Seashore paspalum (Platinum TE variety) golf course. While the course looked great from a distance, it was clear that the grass selection presented its own challenges. While Micah can talk more about this from his experience, it was evident that the grass was

Two-Wheeled Vehicles and Zoysia Putting Greens

Saigon, San Miguel, and Shade

Micah Woods — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:00:04 +0000

Except for the superb mountain course at Dalat, with a lot of kikuyugrass (Pennisetum clandestinum) on the fairways and creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera) greens, all courses at Vietnam have been planted to seashore paspalum or bermudagrass. This is a mistake.

Saigon, San Miguel, and Shade