Eric Wenger

A recent article in the Statesman.com ( 3-17-07 ) by Julie Bonnin, talks about the City of Austin, Texas raising the awareness on the downside of ‘Weed-and-Feed’ products and how they can pollute surface and ground water. The city’s campaign…

I recently read an article about Green Mountain Power Receiving the Governor’s Award For Environmental Ecellence. This all had to do with treating petroleum contaminated soil naturally. This happened on their farm in Berlin Vt. They divert around 7.5 tons…

The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission publishes a paper called “The Advocate”. In one of their issues put out in December of 2000 there was a section that talked about conserving water on lawns and gardens by using Compost. This…

Earth & Turf is in the process of working with several Turf Grass Universities to introduce the concept of Linear Aeration. In the last 2 months, through various turf field days, we have begun showing and testing our New Linear…

Fall is aproaching fast and it will soon be time to start your fall turf program. The Brampton News, a Canadian news paper, just published an article in their September 8th issue quoting from Peel Health, “A healthy lawn and…

Last february we shared with you information about a public works manager in Mass. who has been topdressing his sports fields with compost and it has paid off for him big time. Using his topdresser he applies 25 cubic yards…

A recent article in Grounds Maintenance Magazine said that frequent light topdressing on golf greens actually helped improve ball roll. The University of Nebraska and Penn State where both quoted in the article. The article said that topdressing greens lightly…

The Turf Grass field day at Penn State went very well. We will be sending one of our new Linear Aerators up to Professor Andrew McNitt for testing. The demo went well and the unit performed beautifully. We are looking…

Earth & Turf Products LLC will be displaying and possibly demonstrating the new LA60 Linear Aerator at the Penn State Turfgrass Field Days held at the Joseph Valentine Research Center and the Landscape Management Research Center in University Park, Pa.…

Aggie Turf has a topdressing calculator that is now available on line. This is a great tool. Many times our customers with a topdresser will call in wanting to know how much material they need to spread. We have a…