Asian Turfgrass Center

The ATC Doublecut with Micah Woods

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I discuss ATC blog posts, with supplementary information, stories, and the reasons why I thought the topic was worth writing about, and worth reading about. Thus, a doublecut of these topics. This covers grass selection, playability, and all the work done to create a certain type of turfgrass surface.

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The growth ratio: is the grass growing faster, or slower, than expected? 02.12.2021 18:29

Grass growth varies by season. And a common question is "how much should I expect my grass to be growing?" The turfgrass growth ratio, conceived of by Jason Haines, is a way to express the actual growth in a seasonally-adjusted way. The blog posts on this are at: First one: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/clipping-volume-growth-ratio/ Second one: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/temperature...

Zoysia on highway medians in Thailand 01.12.2021 8:00

I discuss the standard practice of sodding highway medians with zoysia (manilagrass) in Thailand and why the zoysia does not persist. Photos at: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/more-about-zoysia-highway-medians-thailand/ and https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/sodding-miles-of-road-median-with-zoysia/ ATC newsletters at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/#newsletters Find out more about soil tests...

All you need to know about total organic material measurement (#OM246) by depth 01.12.2021 9:56

I introduced this bullet list: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/soil-organic-matter-bullet-list/ This is the OM246 project page with sampling instructions: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/project/om246/ ATC newsletters: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/#newsletters Find out more about soil tests with ATC at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/project/soil-tests/

Inertia as the force of inactivity, and a story about frost delays 01.12.2021 12:40

The post discussed in this episode is about inertia: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/inertia-as-the-force-of-inactivity/ More about frost at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/tag/frost/ Sign-up to ATC newsletters for more turfgrass info at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/#newsletters Find out more about soil tests with ATC at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/project/soil-tests/

How much carbon and humus are in the soil under turfgrass? 01.12.2021 10:43

This is a description and narrative of the blog post about a popular topic --- carbon fertilizer and soil organic matter. The blog post is https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/how-much-carbon-and-humus-are-in-the-soil/ ATC newsletter subscriptions: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/#newsletters All ATC blog posts tagged "carbon": https://www.asianturfgrass.com/tag/carbon/ Hopkins & Hopkins asking...

Five years of sand topdressing adds up to less than I used to recommend in one year 01.12.2021 8:26

This is a discussion of my blog post on sand topdressing amounts over five years, and how it happens that the five year total is actually less than I once recommended by applied in routine maintenance in a single year. The post I discuss is: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/surface-layer-organic-matter/ If you'd like to receive new posts from the ATC blog the same day they are published, sign-u...

More potassium than grass can use or the soil can hold has an inevitable result 01.12.2021 6:01

I discuss this blog post: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/adding-potassium-does-not-increase-soil-ability-to-store-it/ ATC newsletter subscriptions: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/#newsletters MLSN hub: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/mlsn/ More about Jackie Guevara's soil test and fertilizer research at Michigan State University: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/mlsn-and-turfgrass-nutrient...

What the ATC Doublecut is all about 01.12.2021 2:32

Hi. I'm Micah Woods, chief scientist at the Asian Turfgrass Center. I've been studying turfgrass around the world since the 1990s, and I've been writing about turfgrass on my blog in three decades now. That's more than a thousand posts about all kinds of turfgrass topics --- playing conditions, fertilizer, soil tests, grass selection, sustainability, frost delays, growth rate --- pretty much every...