CHEMICAL UPDATE: PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS
Plant growth regulators, or PGRs, offer several useful benefits. People often think of them in terms of growth reduction, but this is just one of their...
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EPA TO REGULATE DIESEL, DIESEL-BURNING ENGINES The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is setting emission standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses...
Business management software
With all of the decisions and choices you have to make with your grounds care business, one of the last things you want to worry about is if you have...
RESEARCHING MAINTENANCE
Winterizer Is IBDU a good choice for winterizing turf? Via the internet. It depends on what you mean by a term thrown around a lot, usually without any...
Meeting in the middle
Considerable research has been conducted over the years in developing the technology for constructing better golf greens. U.S. Golf Association specifications...
Using AVL to keep your fleet on track
Think of it as pennies from heaven, but with long strings attached. By using the Global Positioning System and a phone or computer, you can now track...
EQUIPMENT OPTIONS: Easy rider
Time management. It's the key to productivity and, in business, to profit. The principle is common sense: If you can do more work in an hour, you can...
Pulling the plug on turf problems
Most turf managers are sold on the value of aeration. After all, what's there to argue about? You know that a loose, aerated rootzone that drains well...
LIVING in the SHADOWS
Turf in shaded sites requires different management practices than turf in full sun. Realizing the differences between sun and shade environments will...
Greening our grounds
Rejuvenate the landscape, save energy and decrease water use. These goals may seem contradictory at first glance, but at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory...
Tipping the scales
Scale insects are among the more unusual and mysterious insects associated with landscape plants. Sedentary creatures, a few kinds are economically useful,...
Giving turf the breath of life
The growing environment of the turf on and around a green complex essentially is determined by sunlight penetration and air movement. These factors contribute mightily to the rate at which the putting green complex dries out....
Against the grain
Grain can be defined simply as the direction in which the grass is growing, or laying, as the case may be. Controlling grain on your golf greens is an important step in ensuring that they putt true to their contours. ...
RESEARCHING MAINTENANCE
Get reel! I have been having serious problems with scalping at one of my hybrid bermuda mowing accents. I recently tried using a Walker rotary mower at...
Equipment shipment forecast
The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) has updated its Economic Forecast for consumer equipment and commercial turf products. As of August 2001,...
Fall Aeration and Overseeding
Since the beginning of civilization, the seasons have been used as life's markers. Spring? Time to plant. Summer? Tend the fields. Fall? Harvest the crops,...
Goin' vertical
Sooner or later, just about any lawn or turf area accumulates excess thatch, that layer of dead stems, roots and runners that builds up on the soil surface....
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TOMA BECOMES HALL-OF-FAMER On August 3, 2001, George Toma was presented with the Daniel F. Reeves Pioneer Award, an acknowledgment of Tomas decades of...
RESEARCH UPDATE: ORGANICS TAKING ROOT
Researchers are exploring the value of organic-based strategies in turf establishment and finding positive results. In one study, a University of Missouri...
Prep school
Making the bed. It may be a chore you don't like to do with your own bed, but when it comes to your seedbed, it's a chore that you can't opt out of. Whether...
HOW TO: Take a soil sample
You can't tell anything without a soil sample. This clich has been repeated so often sometimes as the punch line of a joke people often overlook the truth...
PRODUCT PARADE
Equipment LANDSCAPING APPLICATIONS Caterpillar utility grapple buckets and forks are designed for handling bulky and irregularly shaped debris encountered...
Flowering shrubs
When it comes to choosing flowering shrubs, it's tempting to stick with a handful of tried and true favorites. And with good reason! You need plant material...
Nematodes: turf's hidden enemy
The decision to use a nematicide on established turf is based on the determination that the population levels of plant nematodes are high enough to reduce...
Troubleshooting irrigation controls
Too often, golf course irrigation system problems are not identified until it's too late. Suddenly, you're faced with a large area of stressed or burnt-out...
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