April 3, 2012
The slacker’s guide to a great lawn [Consumer Reports May 2012] – Frank Rossi (right) on the now debunked rule-of-thumb that you should never cut more than one third of the grass blade when mowing: “It was inspired by research conducted in the 1950s by scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture who were evaluating [...]
September 22, 2011
Cornell Turfgrass Team member Jenny Kao-Kniffin pulled together this handy resource for lawn and landscape managers at schools and day care centers in the wake of New York’s Child Safe Playing Fields Law: Allowable Herbicides for Schools & Day Care Centers Under NYS Law Chapter 85, Laws of 2010 (Child Safe Playing Fields Law), all [...]
August 11, 2011
“Most landscape managers, especially in areas with adequate rainfall take their high quality irrigation water for granted. If the population continues to grow, the leadership effort by the turf industry in using effluent water could be viewed as facilitating ‘smart growth.’ In other words, communities will need landscapes as outlets for society’s waste, whether it [...]
September 10, 2009
Students in Marcia Eames Sheavly’s Art of Horticulture class worked with Cornell Plantations Staff and myself to shape and sod a sofa built into a sidehill in the ponds area. Check out this 60-second time lapse movies of the process. What an enlightening activity for Cornell students often bogged down in class room learning environments. [...]
August 14, 2009
Dan Schied innovates in tough times to maintain more than 100 acres of turf at the University of Rochester. Good reading in this Turf Magazine article.
