Reports from the 2009 WSU and OSU Turfgrass Field Day.
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Along with the BeaverTurf.com website, we are also launching a BeaverTurf Community site. An online community for Turf Professionals, the site is intended to:
Check it out and sign up here! http://beaverturf.ning.com
BeaverTurf.com - the new turfgrass website from Oregon State University - is nearing completion. We hope you like the new site and the information and resources that it provides.
Please let us know about any bugs, errors, or other problems that you might encounter, as well as any other feedback you may have. Thanks and happy surfing!
OSU Turf Specialist Rob Golembiewski was interviewed by Channel 8 out of Portland, OR yesterday. Click the following link to see the clip.
http://www.kgw.com/news/local/
Evaluation of different products in the management of Anthracnose. The trial site was the Emerald Valley Golf Club, Cresswell, OR. The site has a history of severe Anthracnose. Many thanks to Scott Larsen for letting us use his practice green.
Construction of the Prothro Football Practice Fields at Oregon State University. Design features: Excavate existing field, Grade subgrade to 1.5% slope, Head-head multizoned irrigation, Hunter heads, Drains 15 ft on center, 8” mains, 4” laterals, Trenches lined with geotextile fabric, 90-10 sand/organic topmix approx. 12” depth, Sand grown perennial ryegrass sod, Fixed goals at south end of field.
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Putting greens in Oregon range from 80% to almost 100 % annual bluegrass. The reality of golf course maintenance in the Pacfic North West is that annual bluegrass will eventually dominate turf on tees, greens, and fairways.
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This series of slides shows the types of problems associated with shaded lawns and offers general advice on growing the best lawn possible in shade.
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Thatch is a layer of organic material between the green grass and the soil. Thatch is composed of living and dead stems and roots. Leaves make up only a very small percentage of thatch. Sometimes leaves will form a layer of pseudo thatch at the juncture of the thatch and the green grass. It disappears quickly.
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Identifying lawn grasses requires a basic knowledge of plant structure and the ability to distinguish between those structures to categorize specific grasses. To get really good at identifying turfgrasses you have to learn the characteristics of the common grasses.
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