http://www.basfturftalk.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:52:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Raked sand traps to help prepare for FedEx Cup Tournament at The Barclays I volunteered for the FedEx Cup at The Barclays at The Ridgewood Country Club in northern New Jersey. The tournament was broadcast on television Sunday August 25th. Grass Roots sponsored the refreshments and food for the maintenance volunteers. ... http://www.basfturftalk.com/2008/08/25/turf-time-with-ted-10/ 2008 a low pest pressure turf maintenance season in North East The earlier hot weather conditions have faded to great grass growing weather. The hot temperatures have been short lived. Many turf maintenance professionals are using fungicides but spray intervals are not being shortened to accommodate high disease pressure. At ... http://www.basfturftalk.com/2008/07/18/turf-time-with-ted-9/ Summer heat fires up Take-all Patch disease on turf The weather has turned nice: highs in the upper 70s and lows in the low 50s. This will help those who suffered set backs from the heat waves. Real summer is here! The very hot weather from two weeks ago fired up take-all ... http://www.basfturftalk.com/2008/06/20/turf-time-with-ted-8/ Preventative sprays influence summer disease severity in turf grass Spring has been very nice to the golf course superintendents this 2008 season. We are having a record wet and cool spring. Supers have told me and turf product distributors too, that they have missed a dollar spot spray this spring. Some ... http://www.basfturftalk.com/2008/06/06/turf-time-with-ted-7/ It has been a very busy couple of weeks with the NASCAR Talladega Races over the weekend and the rest. Here goes a boil down of Key West, Fla., happenings. My guests all really enjoyed the race and valued the information they received during their stay at FarmLinks. http://www.basfturftalk.com/2008/05/09/turf-time-with-ted-6/ We went fishing on Wednesday April 9th. Randall Pinckney from Manor CC in Rockville, Md. caught a beauty! All the guys wanted to try and one up Randall. Steve McCormick from Columbia CC came pretty close yesterday with this nice catch. http://www.basfturftalk.com/2008/04/18/turf-time-with-ted-5/ This week at FarmLinks seemed to fly by. My colleague Bob Beyer really helped me out while I was gone. He conducted three Insignia pre-aerification demonstrations in the central Pennsylvania/Philly area. The trials focused on examining the outcomes of early preventative applications that take place during aerification when the soil temperature ... http://www.basfturftalk.com/2008/04/04/turf-time-with-ted-4/ This week at FarmLinks seemed to fly by. My colleague Bob Beyer really helped me out while I was gone. He conducted three Insignia pre-aerification demonstrations in the central Pennsylvania/Philly area. The trials focused on examining the outcomes of early preventative applications that take place during aerification when the soil ... http://www.basfturftalk.com/2008/04/04/turf-time-with-ted-3/ I received Insignia yesterday for demos I plan to accomplish this half of the season. I will be focusing on demonstrating the value of Insignia as a pre-aerification fungicide. Insignia controls most of the diseases present at spring renovation time. Courses spend a great deal of time and resources to ... http://www.basfturftalk.com/2008/03/14/turf-time-with-ted-2/ Spent the early part of the week meeting with Genesis Turf and its end users and shared how to use Insignia prior to aerification to control these three major diseases: anthracnose, summer patch and pythium root dysfunction. Those diseases become active during springtime root development, usually when it’s around 50 ... http://www.basfturftalk.com/2008/02/22/turf-time-with-ted/