2016 Tall Fescue trials were packaged and shipped to cooperators across the United States in August. Te 2016 trial will be the largest single trial packaged and shipped by the TWCA to date with eleven trials being established at ten locations. Te Tall Fescue trial includes six Acute Drought trials, three Low Maintenance trials and two chronic drought trials.
August 2016 was a busy time for TWCA as, in addition to packaging and shipping the largest trial to date we also made final arrangements for the installation of two playing fields at Walker Elementary School in Ashland, OR. As the Oregon Champion of Project EverGreen’s “Healthy Turf. Healthy Kids.” (HTHK) initiative, I have been working to coordinate volunteer and community participation in the project since May of 2015. Te installation is a collaboration between the Ashland School District, Ashland Little League, Walker Elementary, and the City of Ashland. TWCA is donating two thousand pounds of premium qualified grass seed to establish the playing fields as well providing for two years of overseeding to ensure a successful and playable project for the community.
Te playing fields, in addition to benefiting the students of Walker Elementary, will also serve as playing and practice fields for the Ashland Little League Program. Tis program is a continuation of TWCA’s involvement with HTHK that began with TWCA donating the grass seed to the first HTHK project, the Michael J Zone Recreation Center in Cleveland, OH.
TWCA is proud to continue its stewardship of the managed environment and commitment to the communities that benefit from it. With a diverse and ever expanding membership, deepening collaborations, effective advocacy, and philanthropic contributions to communities; TWCA is striving to create more responsible communities and a more cooperative turf industry. For questions about the TWCA, please visit
www.tgwca.org or contact
jack.karlin@tgwca.org.
Jack Karlin is the program administrator for TWCA.A.
TWCA QUALIFIED GRASSES Fescue Aquaduct Aquavita Falcon IV Falcon H20 Greystone PENN RK4 Pennington ATF 1254 Pennington ATF 1258 Pennington ATF 1376 RainDance Rebel XLR Rebel Xtreme Renegade H20 Rhambler SRP Saltillo 2nd Millennium Virtue II Wyatt 5SDS
Kentucky Bluegrass
Apollo H20 Artesia Bedazzled Diva Full Moon K10-111 Mallard Mystere H2O Oasis Ridgeline Tirem WaterWorks
Bermudagrass Princess—77
Perennial Ryegrass
Double Time GLS Manhattan 5 GLR Panther H20 Pennant H20 Pennington APR 2105 Pennington APR2154 Pennington APR2190 Pennington APR2237 Rainwater PR
Strong Creeping Red Fescue
ASC293 ASC295 ASC323 Celestial Miser RaZor Xeric
Hard Fescue
Bighorn GT Blue Hard Predator 4HES Nanook Viking H2O
Chewings Fescue
Culumbra II Survivor 7 Seas Heathland Shadow III
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TPI Turf News September/October 2016
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