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...
HOW TO: Increase your business
Many companies today spend a significant amount of energy trying to increase the size of their business. At the same time, few give as much thought to...
PRODUCT PARADE
Equipment BLOWER-SHREDDER-VACUUM The Mantis BSV (Blower-Shredder-Vacuum) serves as a multi-task machine that blows, vacuum-shreds and recycles yard debris...
Turbulent economy
Attack on the economy The attacks of September 11 have undeniably impacted our economy for the worse. However, recently released economic figures suggest...
Fairway mowers: lightweight division
Lightweight fairway mowers came on the scene in the late 1980s as superintendents sought lighter equipment to minimize turf damage and compaction. The...
RESEARCH UPDATE: EASY ADVICE FOR PREVENTING SUNSCALD
Sunscald is a common problem, notably for young, thin-barked trees. This is often attributed to the thawing and refreezing brought about by sunlight shining...
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....
SHORT CUTS
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...
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....
Hydraulic seeding: It's all in the slurry
Rapid growth after World War II created the need for an easy method of grass establishment for the new highways and buildings being built around the United...
Variety is the spice of life
I enjoy trying out uncommon plants to see how they'll do in my yard. Sometimes they thrive, and I am thrilled that I've found another species that will...
RESEARCHING MAINTENANCE
What's in this stuff? I have been using a well-known brand of turf fertilizer in the fall on my tall fescue accounts. The turf greened up very well, but...
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