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Geoponics introduces Endurant Turf Enhancer, an eco-friendly organic pigment made with binders chosen specifically for its excellent adherence to turfgrasses. Endurant TE is a temporary color enhancer intended for use from spring transition until approaching dormancy conidtions occur, providing a natural looking green associated with actively growing healthy turf. Its visual appeal is unmatched by any other colorant, staying consistent with the superior colors, quality and value associated with the Endurant Turf Colorants line.

Simply mix ENDURANT-TE-2 (click here for more information)

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Golf Course Superintendent Rodney Lingle of Memphis, Tennessee Country Club has some of the best Champion greens of anyone in the country and is an expert on greens painting.

He usually paints just once per year, applying it a bit dark at first to get through a whole growing season without reapplying.

There are so many benefits, as he shares in the video below, that once you try Endurant turf paint, you won’t go back to overseed. It’s a matter of using fewer harmful chemicals, saving water, saving money and time– and of course having the most playable, beautiful turf possible.

Watch as he applies Endurant, which is Geoponics organic, earthy-friendly turf colorant. www.TurfPaint.net)

Mr. Lingle will be hosting a GCSAA webinar on this later in the month!

Endurant Turf Colorant is organic, long-lasting and without the blue hue that other brands often have.

Certified Golf Course Superintendent Don Garrett decided to apply Endurant to Walker Course at Clemson University in November. The green was vibrant, lasting three months until deciding to reapply the Endurant this week.

Turf paint is being suggested for sustainability and affordability by the United States Golf Association, especially instead of the common practice of overseeding. Learn more about Endurant, a sustainable, earth-friendly turf colorant provided by Geoponics, at www.TurfPaint.net. Read about the USGA recommendations here.

Geoponics representative Patrick Donelan shares photographs of Endurant over the course of several months demonstrating its lasting color on Garrett’s course in SC. These are from the Walker Course at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina.

GEOPONICS SITS DOWN WITH GREENSKEEPER ABOUT HIS RESULTS AFTER SWITCHING FROM OTHER WETTING AGENT TO THE SOIL SURFACTANT PENTERRA

Pat Nagle, General Manager Charleville Golf Club, Ireland
(www.charlevillegolf.com)

Q. Can you tell me a bit about Charleville Golf Club?
A. It’s a 27-hole parkland course located in Southern Ireland’s province of Munster. We have a driving range, two chipping greens and two putting greens.

Q. What type of turf and soil?
A. The soil is very heavy. It’s clay. We have 30 greens and 15 are sand based and 15 are soil based.

Q. What Geoponics products are you using?
A. Penterra

Q. How did you hear about Geoponics products and why did you decide to try them?
A. A Geoponics sales representative from the Irish distributor, ProGrass, Brian O’Carroll, called me about six months ago or more. I investigated the products on the website and it looked like the products were quite good. The wetting agent we were using was OK, but the Penterra sounded better and we tried it. First we tried it on a few tee boxes. Then we we tried a few greens. Then we tried them all.

Q. What challenges do you commonly face?
A. Dew. That was our number one reason for using Penterra. We had heavy dew in the morning.

Q. What results did you see with the Penterra?
A. There was no dew. That controlled disease. The mild temperatures of 16 to 17 degrees Celsius, mild and muggy with dew, those were ideal conditions for disease. We found with no dew on the greens, it was a big help in controlling disease like outbreaks of fusarium patch.
The turf looked healthier, we had tremendous color.
The savings more than pays for the Penterra between not having to buy fungicide and the fact we don’t need to come in on the weekends to tend to wet turf when we put it on in advance and at the right rate.

Q. How is the drier surface affecting playability?
A. Players are not complaining. If they’re not complaining, they’ll find something else. (laughs) There’s no discussion on the greens, which is great.

Q. How did Penterra compare to your previous wetting agent?
A. The other wetting agent didn’t control dew. It’s a different ball game with Penterra. There’s no comparison. We are very happy using Penterra. I have only good things to say about it.

Q. How was your service with Geoponics in regards to technical support, especially?
A. The guys are great. They know what they’re talking about. It’s hard convincing greenkeepers to try a new product. We’ll use the same product for 25 years.

Q. Anything I didn’t ask that might help others in the greenskeeping, golf course superintendent or turf management fields?
A. It’s worth trying the product. It’s the best soil surfactant I’ve come across.

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Dermy Jones, greenskeeper, Raffeen Creek Golf Club, Ringaskiddy, Ireland

(www.raffeencreekgolfclub.com  )

Q: Can you tell us a bit about Raffeen Creek Golf Club and its features?

Greenskeeper Dermy Jones: It’s located 12 miles outside of Cork City. It’s very close to the sea at Cork Harbour but without being a links course. We have a 9-hole golf course, an 18-hole pitch and putt course and two soccer pitches.  We have two saltwater lakes.

Q: What are the soil and turf like?

Greenskeeper Dermy Jones: Limestone. It’s silty, heavy soil. The greens are of the old construction style with predominantly annual meadow grass greens, but we keep a lovely surface.

Currently temperatures are between -2 degrees Celsius and 10 degrees. Growth is very, very slow. We’re mowing once or twice a week.

Q: Which Geoponics products are you using?

Greenskeeper Dermy Jones: Penterra (www.Penterra.net) and Detox (www.SoilDetox.com)

Q: How did you discover Geoponics products and why did you choose to try them?

Greenskeeper Dermy Jones: A ProGrass representative (Brian O’Carroll) called me about five months ago. He and a greenskeeper in midland Ireland told me about Penterra and Detox. I read the literature on it. Unless you try something yourself, you wont’ actually see the results.

Q: What challenges do you or others in your area typically face?

Greeenskeeper Dermy Jones: We had a very, very wet summer. Actually we had a wet year. In 2012, we got a meter and a half of rainfall throughout the year.

The surfaces were wet. The greens were holding water. As much as we aerate, as much as we sand, the surface water was sitting there. With that and the dew, the conditions were perfect for disease.

Q: How did Penterra assist with the challenges of a wet surface, dew and disease susceptibility?

Greenskeeper Dermy Jones: For taking dew off the surface, I’ve never seen anything like it and I’ve been a greenskeeper for 25 years and worked on three courses. The Penterra pulls the moisture out of the top layer much better than anything else I’ve used.

It makes cutting much better. The Penterra even keeps the frost off the greens. There’s not as much moisture there to freeze. Every 14 days we spray and there is no dew, no disease.

We were looking to get the water off the surface and the Penterra did just what it said it would do. Our greens have dried up so much. We’ve been open everyday, except for a couple of mornings for frost.

Q: As for the Detox, was this to address sodium in your soil?

Greenskeeper Dermy Jones: Yes. We’re starting with the two together—Penterra and Detox. I found great results with this. I’m still waiting on the soil analysis test to come back.

We got saltwater on one of our fairways after a high tide a couple of times. The first time the water was high the turf yellowed and took some time to recover. It looked like it was dying off. But this next time it happened, we put the Detox on it as soon as we got the water off. It greened up again in a matter of days.

Q: How was your service with Geoponics in regard to technical assistance?

Greenskeeper Dermy Jones: (Brian O’Carroll) The distributor from ProGrass (www.Prograss.ie) keeps me up-to-date. I can ring him up anytime and ask him what products I can put with it. He rings me on a regular basis and asks if I have any problems.

Q: Any other experiences or tips I may not have asked that could help other greenskeeper or golf course superintendents?

Greenskeeper Dermy Jones: I haven’t been through a full growing season with Penterra yet, but if it’s even half as good of a soil surfactant as it is a wetting agent, it will be superb.