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Learning to Manage the Seed Head
Seed head popping up prior to mowing.I've always been a manager of Poa annua greens and I always dread the onset of seed head each May. It seems that just as my greens have recovered from aeration they...
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Changing My Weed Management Approach
Lately I have begun to change the way I approach weeds in the landscape. In my experience over the past decade I have seen a lot of weed management failures, not just on the golf course but also on...
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"The Best Laid Plans...."
Well I broke down today and sprayed a traditional contact fungicide on most of my greens. I just wasn't confident that I could recover from the recent fusarium outbreak without it. Everything seemed to...
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Looking Back and Forward
About 1.5 years ago the golf course industry in British Columbia was facing a real threat of an outright cosmetic pesticide ban. At this time I wrote a post about how I thought we should focus our...
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Junuary
This post is a bit late as I have been a tad busy the past few weeks moving to a new town and battling the July summer heat. June might go down as one of the most difficult months I have ever had...
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Moss Disease
                        I noticed something interesting happening to the moss on my practice green this summer. It appeared to be under attach by some sort of pathogen. I posted...
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Summer Dollar Spot Success
It has been almost 2 months since my last post and it's not because nothing has been happening. It was a really busy and good summer and I was trying some new things out to combat disease on the golf...
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Quantifying OM Release and Integration Into IPM Program
As things wind down for the season I begin to have time to reflect on the past season and make sense of some of the data I have collected. This season wasn't without it's challenges especially when it...
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A Funny Story
So here's a funny story.Last Tuesday the 28th of Oct as I was finishing up mowing fairways I took a pass across the approach of the first green just to see how it looked. The past 2 days had seen a...
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Growth Potential Fertility: After 2 years
GP finally = 0!!Growth Potential Fertility (GP) is still a relatively new concept in turfgrass management. For the past 2 years I have been using it as the main method to determine rates and timing of...
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Reducing fusarium with dew removal.....or not.
When I first started in the turf industry my superintendent would always have me go drag the dew to "prevent the fusarium." When I became a superintendent in 2007 I think the only time that I actually...
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New Year, A New Name
Finding a suitable name for this blog has always been a challenge of mine. At first it was titled "Pender Harbour Greenkeeper" but this name lost its meaning when the focus of the blog changed from...
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Winter Primo and IPM
Phosphite, Iron Sulfate, and Primo application,Jan 03, 2014Primo Maxx (Trinexapac-ethyl) is a plant growth regulator that is primarily used during the warm summer months. It has a lot of uses such as...
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Sustainable Fertilizer Use
One of the most over-used words in the turf industry the past few years has been "sustainable." People throw it around (and I'm just as guilty) but don't really have much data to back it up. What is...
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Fusarium Spread and Spot Treating Questions
Last year I wrote a post about how my approaches has much more disease than the rest of my pesticide free areas of the course. I hypothesized that it could be due to the overlap of fertilizer...
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Rolling and Fusarium OSU Trial Update
A few years ago the turf industry in BC was facing a pesticide ban and our association set out to fight the ban successfully. At the time I was worried that we needed to also spend some resources in...
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Sustainable Pesticide Use: Tracking Pesticide Cost and Environmental Impact
Pesticide Sustainability. Do these two words even belong together? I don't know. What I do know is that pesticides are damn expensive and their safety and impact on the environment has been called into...
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Super Savy Social Media Award
Wow, What an honour! Social media in the turfgrass industry has exploded in the past few years and to be singled out among all of the amazing bloggers, tweeters, and facebookers is truly humbling....
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Disease Update March 2014
You probably aren't wondering what that crazy greenkeeper is up to in Pender Harbour but I'm going to tell you anyway!Overall disease pressure has been interesting. On areas that receive no treatment...
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Aeration Recovery and Nitrogen
Aeration season is coming up and I just wanted to mention a few thoughts I have on the subject.I can't speak for everyone but it seems that it is common practice to apply a rather heavy nitrogen app...
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