Here are some photos I took on April 19th, 2010 compared to some that I took today.
The Orchard in 2010.
The Orchard in 2018.
2010
2018.
2010.
2018. Make sure to look at that freshly painted barn, not at the snow.
If you look at the links on the right side of my blog, you will see the Growing Degree Tracker. This is a very helpful tool developed by Michigan State University that models plant maturity. It takes a base temperature and subtracts it from the average temperature for the day, ignoring negative numbers. Thus, the numbers always increase. There are many things that the GDD Tracker help turfgrass managers with. One of these is calculating Crabgrass pre-emergent timing. As you can see from the below graph, now is optimum timing for putting this out on your lawn.
The next graph shows where we sat one year ago.
Last year at this time, we were approaching the end of the window to apply pre-emergant. In 2014, we were visiting by the "Polar Vortex" and we opened Leslie Park on April 11th. We officially opened Leslie on March 30th this year, but it feels like this spring was worse.
Warmer temperatures are just around the corner though, I can feel it. Happy golfing.
1 comment:
I put down the crabgrass prevention this past weekend. I have relied on your site's link for several years and for the most part, we have had -0- crabgrass. So thanks!
There was an old saying about forsythia's blooming and it being time to use the crabgrass prevention. I did note that one forsythia bush near our home has just started to show some yellow. Maybe that old saying is relatively accurate.
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