Aeration Recovery Now’s the time to start planning aeration for your course. Aeration is a critical practice to help your course recover from summer stress, but it also requires some recovery of its own.
Problems That Arise From Low-Quality Grass Seed It may be tempting to go for the grass seed with the lowest price tag, but you get what you pay for with seed. Low-quality grass seed has lower germination rates, higher weed content, and other costly problems.
Surviving Summer Stress in Cool-Season Turf We all start the season with the best intentions to make the turf “the best it can be.” Eventually, the season gets underway, the weather becomes extreme, staff shortages wreak havoc, and a well-laid plan starts to unravel.
How Bicarbonates and pH Affect Spray Water The single largest input into our spray tank is the water used to make the application. We often overlook the significance of good water. Sometimes we think, “If it’s good enough to drink, then it’s okay for our spray tank.” That may or may not be true!
Pre-Emergent Herbicides for Warm-Season Grass Pre-emergent herbicides work by forming an impenetrable barrier in the soil during seasons of high weed pressure, which occur when the turf is transitioning into or out of dormancy.
New Co-Branded Line of Exclusive Grass Seed Products Advanced Turf Solutions and Barenbrug have partnered together to create a line of exclusive grass seed products, including blends coated with XCD.
Sowing Seeds for the Future: Turfgrass Breeding Impact on Tomorrow’s Seed Needs By staying in tune with end-user feedback and being aware of environmental pressures, Barenbrug aims to be the preferred partner of today while simultaneously breeding the varieties of the future.
Where Does My Seed Come From? Even though grass seems to grow around us without much effort, developing improved varieties takes time and effort.