Industry sounds-off about turf damage
Record-setting heat is challenging turf pros to keep turfgrass roots and leaves from literally baking-to-death this summer.

The Wall Street Journal article, “The Ugly Summer of 2010,” describes the brutal heat conditions wreaking havoc on turf across America. According to the article, golf course superintendents are fighting to save their courses from ruin.
Reports from coast-to coast also note similar summer stress and damage to residential and commercial lawns, athletic fields and parks across the country.

Tell us how summer weather is impacting your operation or maintenance program
How is your turf looking? Is it surviving or thriving? What are you doing to keep turfgrass cool, healthy and/or disease-free under these adverse conditions? Have you learned anything this season that may help your peers in the turf business?
Share your quick update and turf tips with your fellow pros by COMMENTING below.


In the midst of the Orioles hiring their latest manager, Bucky Showalter, many Baltimore sports fans are anxiously awaiting the start of the NFL season. Baseball will end at the end of September with no play-off expectations, as it has done here for the last 14 years. So onto football, where at least we sell out the home games.




