Photo of the week: A new tool for measuring turf quality

Humans are famously subjective beings, and for that reasons, we are always looking for good, easy, objective ways to measure turf quality. A new turf application (currently available for iPhone, iPad and iPod), known as GreenIndex, may fit the bill. In our preliminary tests, it showed a good statistical correlation between high EC (soil salinity) and low turf quality, which is what we would expect to see. The app measures turf quality two different ways — as a visual rating…