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ISSN 2158-124X UPDATE Summer 2019 Vol. 19, No. 2 P.O. Box 205, Pennsville, NJ 08070 • 856-514-3179 • www.sfmanj.org • e-mail: [email protected] SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday, July 31, 2019 LAWN, LANDSCAPE AND SPORTS TURF FIELD DAY Including SFMANJ-Sponsored Trade Show & Demos Check inside for information on: Poa annua Rutgers Lawn, Landscape And Sports Turf Field Day Maintaining Infield Lips Recap of Spring Field Day Water Management Upcoming Events 2 Sports Field Managers Association of New Jersey 2019 SFMANJ BOARD OF DIRECTORS New and Renewed OFFICERS President, Bernard Luongo ............No. Burlington Co. Reg. School Dist. SFMANJ Members Vice President, Rich Watson .........................................Laurel Lawnmower Currently we have 219 new & renewed members. Sports Field Secretary, Scott Bills, CSFM ....................................Sports Field Solutions Treasurer, Zachary Holm, CSFM ................................New York Red Bulls Managers Association of New Jersey mailed invoices for 2019 membership dues to all current members. If you did not receive SFMANJ BOARD OF DIRECTORS: an invoice, please contact us at 856.514.3179 or download the Virgil Caputo ............................................ Monroe Twp. Parks Department membership form available at www.sfmanj.org. Mail membership Fred Castenschiold ............................................... Storr Tractor Company dues direct to SFMANJ, PO Box 205, Pennsville, NJ 08070. Jim Iannetti ........................................Middlesex Boro Parks Department Reese Kerlin ..................................................................New York Red Bulls Ken Mathis ..............................................................................Brick Township New and Renewed Members as of Brad Park ......................................................................... Rutgers University March 4, 2019 Jessica Phillips ..........................................................................The Turf Trade (Continued from last issue) Craig Tolley .........................................................County College of Morris Charles Rogers Plainsboro Township ADVISORS: Sean Connell ............................................................................. Georgia Golf Edmund Rohland Millville Babe Ruth Sports Complex Dr. James Murphy ........................................................... Rutgers University Phillipe Roux Lakewood Twp. Matt Olivi .......................................... Piscataway Twp. Board of Education Frank Russo North Brunswick Twp Parks Frank Ravaschiere ....................................................... City of Long Branch Michael Ryan The Landtek Group, Inc. Don Savard, CSFM, CGM ..............................................Salesianum School James Saner Ocean Township Board of Ed EXECUTIVE SECRETARY David Schell Basf Professional Products Debbie Savard ......................................................................................SFMANJ Brandon Schmidt Paramus Board of Ed MISSION STATEMENT Michael Shanko Peddie School Committed to enhancing the professionalism of athletic field managers Daniel Shemesh New York Red Bulls by improving the safety, playability and appearance of athletic fields at Gary Shupper Somerset County Park Commission all levels through seminars, field days, publications and networking with those in the sports turf industry. Neal D. Sitzman New York Red Bulls Charles Skeenes Cinnaminson Board of Ed PO Box 205 • Pennsville, NJ 08070 Evan Slutsky Middletown Twp. Web site: www.sfmanj.org • Email: [email protected] Blair Spencer Twp. of Burlington-Rec Dept Phone: 856-514-3179 / Fax: 856-514-2542 Charles Steel Lindenwold Board of Education National Organization Brian Stevens Twp. of Burlington-Rec Dept Sports Turf Managers Association John Sulinski The Landtek Group, Inc. www.stma.org Peter Szczecina Georgian Court Iniversity Gary Tattersal Ocean Twp BOE SFMANJ Adelphia Trade Show Joel Taylor Haddon Twp BOE Sam Teague Delsea Regional School District Wed. July 31, 2019 Steven Ternosky Morris Hills Regional District call 856-514-3179 for info Ricky Tier SC Miners/NJ Jackals Mark Tindall Cinnaminson Board of Ed Craig A. Tolley County College of Morris Thomas J. Torpey Retired INSIDE THIS ISSUE Larry Toth Rider University Poa annua - Misunderstood Frenemy? .......................4 Jay Trstensky Delaware Township Rutgers Lawn, Landscape And Sports Turf Field Day. .5 Chris Tufano Township of Freehold Managing Water for Playability .............................6 George Van Haasteren, CGM Dwight-Englewood School Lip Service. 7 Howard Viersma The Viersma Companies Photo Recap: SFMANJ Spring Field Day .....................10 Jeff Weld Bayer Thank You!. .12 Rick Winter Maple Shade BOE 2019 Calendar of Events .................................14 Brian Woldin Middlesex Boro Parks SFMANJ At the Directors of Athletics Association of New Jersey Convention ...............................18 More new members on page 16 This newsletter is the official quarterly publication of the Don’t Forget . Sports Field Managers Association of New Jersey. SFMANJ For information regarding this newsletter, contact: Adelphia Trade Show SFMANJ at (856) 514-3179 or Brad Park at (848) 932-6327 Wednesday, Editor: Brad Park, Rutgers University, Email: [email protected] July 31, 2019 Layout and Design: Debra Savard, Email: [email protected] SFMANJ does not necessarily support the opinions of those reflected in the following articles. Update Sumer 2019 3 Poa annua MISUNDERSTOOD FRENEMY? By Don Savard, CSFM, CGM I get many compliments in the early spring from visitors about how (turfgrass to tomatoes), Poa annua would likely begin to invade the green and lush my playing fields look. In our business, we learn to stand if given the chance. It seems to grow everywhere in the world, take any credit we can get. I say thanks, give them a self-effacing grin hot, cold, wet and dry locales. It has even appeared on King George and mumble modestly something about the weather conditions Island in the Antarctic South Shetland Islands as an invasive species. must have been right and we were just darn lucky. Poa annua is described as a cool-season winter annual. Winter Poa annua (annual bluegrass), you did it to me again. In a couple of annuals are plants that germinate in late summer to early-fall, weeks you will be a seedy mess, just before the sports playoffs. And overwinter, and produce seed in the spring. Typical winter annuals just as soon as the pressure is off, there you are, looking real good die soon after seed production as daytime air temperatures again like nothing happened. increase. Poa annua is anything but typical. And it is not exclusively annual. There are even perennial Poa annua biotypes. To confuse Like an insufferable coworker, just when I wish it would just go away, things further, there are low growing types, upright types, bunch it surprises me and comes through for me in a clutch. types and stoloniferous types. Read any of the trade publications and there are advertisements for So, what is so bad about Poa annua, after all, it has been successfully new herbicide products that claim to control and even eradicate managed on golf course putting greens for years? Poa annua. You might begin to believe that Poa annua is bad and feel there is something wrong with you because it is growing in your Well, there is the aforementioned seed problem. Poa annua is a turf. prolific seed producer in the spring time. These seeds manage to spread from site to site by natural means such as wind and water A weed is defined as a plant that is growing where it is not wanted. and on shoes and the wheels of grounds equipment, contaminating Poa annua grows wherever it wants. 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Box 148 Hammonton, NJ 08037 4 Sports Field Managers Association of New Jersey LAWN, LANDSCAPE AND SPORTS TURF FIELD DAY Including SFMANJ-Sponsored Trade Show and Equipment Demos by Brad Park Adelphia Research Farm, Freehold, NJ - Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Save the Date In what has become stops per hour. There will be four 3-stop rotations between 9:00 am an annual tradition, the and 1:00 pm; two of these stops will consist of vendor-sponsored New Jersey Turfgrass equipment demonstrations administrated by SFMANJ. Association (NJTA), Sports Field Managers Association Turfgrass species/variety, of New Jersey (SFMANJ), fungicide, and herbicide and Rutgers University trials are annually conducted will once again collaborate by Rutgers Faculty at the to hold the Rutgers Lawn, Adelphia Research and will be Landscape, and Sports Turf included as educational tour Field Day. This year’s event stops. Stark contrasts between will be held at Rutgers effective and ineffective Adelphia Research Farm, varieties and treatments are Freehold, NJ on Wednesday, often visually apparent in these July