Master Greenkeeper John Quinn is the author of Performance Bowling Greens, and several other titles on Greenkeeping, Club and Business Management.
This carefully selected trio of products delivers steady, consistent turf growth without flushes, while building soil health and reducing the need for firefighting inputs. It’s efficient, economical, and designed specifically for fine turf under pressure.
Applied monthly during the growing season at label rates, BioActive Yucca keeps moisture availability in the optimal zone for healthy, stress-resilient turf. It can also be used strategically before or during periods of drought to buffer the turf against rapid desiccation.
Nitrogen is essential to turfgrass performance—it drives growth, colour, and density. But too much or too little, applied at the wrong time or in the wrong form, can do more harm than good. Spikes of growth followed by periods of stress are all too common with traditional nitrogen sources, especially on fine turf where consistency is king.
Grasses employ a range of physical, chemical, and indirect defences to protect their roots from insect herbivores. Further research is needed to fully understand these mechanisms and to explore other potential defences, but meantime, we can take some of this knowledge and apply it now to our greenkeeping practices.
Mycorrhizal fungi and turf health go hand in hand. The symbiotic relationships that exist between our turf grass plants and soil fungi are critical to producing a high performance, perennial grass dominated sward. Here we look at the benefits of mycorrhizal relationships in turf and the techniques greenkeepers can employ to encourage them.
