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07 Dec

Why overseed? Superintendent has surprising answer

Reasons to overseed:

Champions Tour at Desert Mountain uses Endurant organic turf colorant
Shawn Emerson gets the over-seeded, over-watered, over-fertilized look but instead uses Endurant organic colorant.

Golf course superintendents create a long list for why to use liquid overseed, painting with Endurant organic turf paint instead of traditional overseed.

Many golf course superintendents still overseed– they just call it liquid overseed when choosing to use Endurant organic colorants versus traditional overseed practices.

Twitter has become a great resource for turf tips. Several certified golf course superintendents have been sharing their winter turf management tips all over social media. Among the trends is using turf colorant instead of the practice of overseeding turf for winter.

Here are the results of using Endurant organic turf colorant instead of overseed. The practice of painting turf saves water, time and money when compared with overseeding. Endurant organic turf paint is pleasing for members and turf managers alike! Check out the wow factor of this perennial rye look!

Photos courtesy of Assistant Golf Course Superintendent Scott Forrester, Legacy on Lanier Golf Club in Georgia:

Recently, Scott Forrester, assistant golf course superintendent at Lagacy on Lanier Golf Club in Bulford, GA, used Endurant organic turf colorant. Afterwards, he asked his Twitter followers rhetorically: “Why would anyone overseed?!”

Forrester called Endurant PR his liquid overseed, giving his golf course a perennial rye look that members, golfers and other visitors love.

Turf Paint liquid overseed

About Legacy on Lanier Golf Club:

Legacy on Lanier Golf Club represents a return to the Golden Era of Golf from the early to mid 1900’s, when designers created some of the most storied courses in the world. The layout traverses a natural setting with 12 holes on Lake Lanier. Located in Buford, Georgia. Visit www.lanierislandsc.om for more information.

About Endurant PR:

Geoponics created Endurant PR to give golf course superintendents everywhere an opportunity to look like Augusta affordably. Learn more about the full line of Endurant colorants by visiting www.TurfPaint.net.

Contact Geoponics, info@geoponicscorp.com, 1-877-ECO-GROW, or order NOW.

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04 Dec

Prevent Frost Delays: Superintendents take to Twitter

Golf Course Superintendents share winter turf care tips on Twitter.

Turf frost delays prevented with PenterraMany greenkeepers and superintendents recently shared how they are preventing frost delays using Penterra.

The fastest-acting soil surfactant, Penterra, is also preventing damage to turf that can be caused by frost and dew. Players are pleased while superintendents jobs come with a bit more ease.

Tweeting from NJ about Penterra

Simon Rees, Assistant Superintendent at Trump National Golf Club in Colts Neck, New Jersey, recently took to Twitter, sharing how he prevents frost delays and turf damage with Penterra. He recently shared this photo with Geoponics on Twitter:

Tweeting from the UK about Penterra

Head Greenkeeper Mark Bewley also had great results with Penterra this November and December, taking his enthusiasm for the soil surfactant to Twitter with this tweet:


Bewley boasted in November how even two weeks after applying Penterra, he was still seeing great results with dew suppression in the early mornings. He tweeted:

U.S. customers may contact their sales representative or Geoponics, 1-877-ECO-GROW, info@geoponicscorp.com.

In the UK contact Prograss for Penterra, the fastest-acting soil surfactant for dew suppression and prevention of frost delays.

Turf frost delays prevented with PenterraAbout Penterra:

Professional Golf Course Superindents speak out about the amazing results they have obtained by using Penterra as a soil adjuvant and wetting agent.

From frost prevention, dew suppression, movement of water, localized dry spots, turf uniformity, golf tournament preparation, Penterra assists with water conservation in a environmentally sensitive way.

Get the fastest-acting soil surfactant, Penterra!

Check out more on www.TurfFrost.com and www.Penterra.net

 

BUY NOW!  www.SHOPGEOPONICS.COM

 

 

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03 Dec

SoilGlue improves stability, color easing bunker maintenance

SoilGlue gives golf course superintendents a win in the battle of the bunkers.

SoilGlue Stabilizer and colorant for sand bunkers, soil stabilizer
1-877-ECO-GROW info@geoponicscorp.com

SoilGlue provides many benefits, paramount among them are stability, color, economy and longevity. This environmentally friendly soil stabilizer and colorant was created by Geoponics.

The process of keeping bunkers looking great starts with creating a crisp edge. Maintenance of the bunkers’ walls and edges is usually time-consuming and labor-intensive, but SoilGlue provides a solution that is earth-friendly, while saving time and money.

Let’s face it, bunker maintenance can be among the more formidable aspects of a golf course superintendent’s job.  Nonetheless it’s an unavoidable task in the role of the golf course superintendent. Geoponics created SoilGlue with the golf course superintendent in mind. This soil stabilizer with colorant extends the useful life of the bunkers’ sand, delaying costly replacement and minimizing maintenance.

SoilGlue aids in resisting excessive washing from bunker slopes due to irrigation, rain and wind.

White sands are beautiful, yet also create some maintenance challenges because they show contamination much more readily. The colorant in SoilGlue provides a high contrast visual appeal while preventing contamination of bunkers.

Bunker before SoilGlue
Bunker BEFORE SoilGlue

 

Bunker after SoilGlue
Bunker AFTER SoilGlue
SoilGlue soil, sand stability, color
Mixing SoilGlue to apply to sand bunkers at golf course, providing earth-friendly stability and color.

SoilGlue is easy to use. It is applied by spraying the earth-friendly solution on the exposed sand of the soil bunkers’ edges, thereby improving soil stability. It reduces erosion of exposed sand and soil on the edge of golf course bunkers. SoilGlue is also used in other applications where rock hard stability is needed.

SoilGlue permeates and binds soil particles in the bunker to stop contamination of valuable sand. SoilGlue eliminates erosion, stabilizes the bunker faces and can enhance the effectiveness of the drainage system. SoilGlue binds and stabilizes soils, sand and aggregates by gluing them together. Once applied, contaminants, such as stones, cannot migrate up from the bunker cavity contaminating the critical bunker sand.

Like Geoponics’ other products, SoilGlue is environmentally safe. Geoponics provides solutions to golf course superintendents, lawn and landscape professionals, sports & athletic field operators, municipalities, agricultural workers, schools and home users.

SoilGlue:

  • Improves soil stability
  • Improves adhesion
  • Provides lasting color
  • Improves aesthetics and playability
  • Decreases bunker maintenance costs
  • Decreases bunker maintenance labor
  • Increases abrasion resistance
  • Increases bunker durability
  • Increases longevity of bunker
  • Prevents bunker collapse
  • Prevents degradation
  • Prevents and decreases erosion
  • Is easy to apply
Soil-Stablization-colorant-SoilGlue
1-877-ECO-GROW info@geoponicscorp.com

Looking for more resources on bunker maintenance? Here are a few articles from leaders in the field of golf course maintenance:

– Grounds Maintenance Magazine article on bunker maintenance here, providing information and news for golf & green industry professionals.

– Golf Course Industry Magazine feature article covering bunker maintenance tips from Dellwood Hills Golf Club here.

– Check out other Geoponics blogs for more tools, tips and news here.

 

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16 Nov

Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show: Visit Geoponics Booth 2317

Visit Geoponics Booth 2317

Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents Association Conference & Show

Mon. through Wed., Nov. 17-19, 2014

Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show is featuring several of Geoponics earth friendly turf care solutions favored by the top professionals in the field: Endurant Organic Turf Colorants, Agriox for soil oxygen & Penterra, the fastest-acting soil surfactant on the planet.

Geoponics at Carolina GCSA Conference & Show 2014

The Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show is held at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Dates: Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, Nov. 17, Nov. 18 & Nov. 19, 2014

This Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show remains the largest regional showcase and gathering of golf course superintendents in the country! The Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show keeps members up to date on technology, innovations, research, education and the most valuable tools that superintendents need to achieve their goals.

As CGSC Brian Powell, President of the Carolinas GCSA recently pointed out, golf course conditions remain the most important factor in whether golfers enjoy their game. Geoponics primary goal is to support superintendents, working together to keep golfers coming back for more.

See you at the Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show! Booth 2317.

About some of Geoponics featured products at Booth 2317:

Endurant Organic Turf Colorants: Learn to paint from the pros at Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show

Learn to paint at the Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show Endurant on a Palm Desert soccer field
Learn to paint turf grass at booth 2317 of the Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show.
  • Used by West Coast Turf, Foster-Gardner in Palm Desert, Calif. to prepare soccer fields
  • Used to prepare for the PGA Champions Tour on the Golf Channel. Read more here.
  • Used to launch a new business to provide lawncare solutions during the California drought. Read here.
  • Used to repair turfgrass in advance of a wedding when another brand of colorant turned the grass to a fake looking blue color.
  • Used to get TV ready for a huge televised horse race event. Read more here.
  • Buy Endurant organic turf paint here now.

Agriox: For anaerobic soils Visit www.soiloxygen.com Agriox soil oxygen

Visit www.soiloxygen.com 

Penterra: Prevent frost delays, manage water

The fastest-acting soil surfactant to get water moving through the soil profile

Prevent frost delays with Penterra
Prevent frost delays with Penterra!

Visit www.Penterra.net

See you at Booth 2317 at the Carolinas GCSA Conference & Show!

 

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13 Nov

Turf talk: Emerson shares Champions Tour preparation with Endurant turf paint

Preparing for the Schwab Cup with Endurant Organic Turf Colorant gives Desert Mountain TV ready look, clinches Champions Tour season ender for 3 consecutive years

Kieth Hershberger, Shawn Emerson, Nick Lubich
Kieth Hershberger, Shawn Emerson, Nick Lubich

Highest in their field

Geoponics met with two top turfgrass managers in the golf course industry to see how they prepare for an event as renowned as the PGA Champions Tour: Shawn Emerson, director of agronomy at Desert Mountain Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Keith Hershberger, agronomist at Desert Mountain, along with a turf colorant advisor, Nick Lubich, of Fertizona.

About Shawn Emerson and Desert Mountain Club

Shawn Emerson surrounds himself with world leaders in turf management. He seeks the ideal balance between water conservation, minimizing chemical usage and providing the green turf and playing conditions that keep his courses ready for the most valuable players in golf and millions of television viewers. That’s how he’s called upon to provide the perfect course for the Champions Tour.

Desert Mountain has six Jack Nicklaus Signature courses on 550 acres of turf, comprised of six turf types. Desert Mountain hosted the Schwab Cup, and due to the ideal conditions provided, clinched the Champions Tour season ender for another two years.

The Schwab Cup season ender of the PGA Champions Tour was played on the Cochise course, with a blend of Bermuda grass and rye grass, overseeded and painted with Endurant PR, organic turf colorant for a hunter green, perennial rye look reminiscent of Augusta.

  • Endurant turf colorants paint for a lasting impression

  • Q. Why use Endurant to prepare for the Champions Tour?

    A. “We used Endurant two years ago on courses that were not overseeded and we liked it,” Emerson said.
    Emerson and his team spent years testing other colorants, seeking a darker green looking color that doesn’t fade quickly, doesn’t have a blue tint that looks fake and doesn’t clog sprayers the way some colorant brands do.
    “Endurant was the clear choice,” Emerson said.

  • Q. What was your primary goal?

    A. The desired look was a uniform color across the golf course in all the fairways. The Endurant greened up the Bermuda grass to match the existing rye grass, so it looked like all rye grass.
    “Our goal is to look like Augusta and play like the U.S. Open, which was accomplished,” said Emerson.

  • Q. Why choose the new Endurant PR from Geoponics for the Champions Tour Schwab Cup?

    A. The Schwab Cup season ender of the PGA Champions Tour provided a debut of the Endurant PR as the first time the new colorant was used west of the Mississippi, said Nick Lubich, of Fertizona.
    The course was overseeded, but the Bermuda grass was competing with the rye grass due to growth rates caused by a warmer than usual fall. A darker rye color pigment was desired to match the Bermuda grass to the darker rye grass.
    Lubich knew just what to suggest—Endurant PR, for a rich, deep green and perennial rye grass look.
    Normally, Emerson and Hershberger would be hesitant to use a new product days before a tournament, especially the Champions Tour, televised on the Golf Channel for 120 million households to see.
    “We never saw this new formulation, the Endurant PR. But, from the previous products we’d used, we were comfortable with the manufacturer of Endurant and with our representative, Nick. So we went ahead and pulled the trigger,” said Emerson.

  • Q. How did Endurant PR look in-person and on TV for the Champions Tour?

    A. “It looks like an overwatered lush grass, and, really, it’s not. That’s what we’re trying to accomplish out here, to look like the traditional overseeded, overwatered, over fertilized grass, but we can get that look and found we can cut costs,” said Emerson.
    The golf course looked like a completely overseeded golf course using fewer resources with Endurant PR and blended very well, he said.
    “I thought it looked fantastic,” said Emerson.
    The Champions Tour leaders clearly agreed, changing initial plans for a different course to host the Schwab Cup next year, instead choosing to return to Desert Mountain for the Schwab Cup for at least three consecutive years. (original article here.)

  • Champions Tour at Desert Mountain uses Endurant organic turf colorantThe world’s top players expect a gorgeous, highly playable green course & they get it with Endurant. Champions Tour at Desert Mountain uses Endurant organic turf colorantShawn Emerson gets the over-seeded, over-watered, over-fertilized look but instead uses Endurant organic colorant.
    Champions Tour at Desert Mountain uses Endurant organic turf colorantGetting TV ready requires the best looking turf for millions of viewers watching the Champions Tour. Champions Tour at Desert Mountain uses Endurant organic turf colorantEndurant PR gives deep hunter green look like an overseed perennial rye at Champions Tour event.

  • Q. How was Endurant PR applied?

    A. Endurant PR was used at a rate of 1 ½ gallons per acre. The Desert Mountain course, consisting of about half Bermuda grass and half rye grass, was sprayed with Endurant PR about six days prior to the Champions Tour event and again the day before the Champions Tour event. Mowing was frequent, with about 20 cuts, twice a day, over the course of the tournament.
    A centrifugal pump and flat nozzle sprayer were selected and the turf was sprayed in multiple directions to increase blending and decrease any streaking.

  • Q. Environmentally, what are your thoughts about overseeding and Endurant organic colorants?

    A. “In today’s golf course management, people are using less fertilizer, less seed and less water. Endurant has allowed us to do that and maintain the color they want,” said Emerson.
    Emerson has left some of his golf courses without overseed and without paint in the past.
    “People don’t like it because it’s not green. Green is an absolute important color in golf. Endurant allows us to cut back on fertilizer, seed and water and still get the thicker look of rye grass,” said Emerson.

  • Q. With years of experience in turf painting and overseed, what other tips can you share with superintendents and landscape managers?

    • All paints work better when you’re not mowing a lot.
    • The less you mow, the longer the colorant lasts.
    • If preparing for an event or tournament, paint as close to the start of the tournament as you can.
    • Start your colorant program prior to Bermuda grass going dormant.
    • Experiment with the rate of Endurant colorants to get the color you want. You can use less and just take off some of the whiteness or balding of Bermuda grass or go with the full rate (1 ½ gallons per acre) and get the liquid overseed look.
    • Be careful experimenting with brands as some will cause a blueish turf.
    • We found centrifugal pumps work better than diaphragm pumps for pigments.
    • The direction you paint is important. We painted in more than one direction to help provide uniformity of color.
    • Clean nozzle and pumps to prevent streaking and clogging.
    • Experiment with different nozzles to fit the typography.
    • More on how to paint a lawn here.

  • Geoponics manufactures Endurant organic turf colorants and other earth friendly turf, garden and landscape solutions. www.TurfPaint.net

  • Q. What are your thoughts on the varieties of Endurant organic turf colorants?

    Emerson and his agronomy team, including Hershberger and Lubich, have used the full line of Endurant colorants at one time or another, including Endurant TC, the orginal; Endurant TE with turf enhancers for actively growing grass; Endurant FW for fairways, Endurant Premium for a deeper green variation of Endurant TC, and Endurant PR for the perennial rye deepest hunter green that is reminiscent of Augusta.

    A. “We thought the original Endurant we’d used was great. We loved it. But the current product we’re using is better for rye grass, for that darker, deeper hunter green,” said Emerson.
    The original is more geared toward Bermuda grass.
    “We call it our liquid fertilizer. We didn’t tell anyone we were using it. (UNITL NOW) We just said ‘it’s our liquid fertilizer application.'”

Choose which Endurant turf colorant variety based on the shade of green desired. Check out www.TurfPaint.net and buy now! 

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