Are conventional soil guidelines broken?
October 17, 2014
In this article on soil nutritional guidelines, Dr. Micah Woods of the Asian Turfgrass Center does a very good job of explaining the scientific and philosophical basis for the Minimum Levels for Sustainable Nutrition (MLSN) guidelines. His thesis, which we fully agree with, is that conventional guidelines are broken, because they call for higher nutrient levels than the turf really needs. He then presents recent data from The Global Soil Survey which demonstrates that good quality turf is frequently grown…