Here are the 5 most viewed posts from this year. In 2012, the most viewed posts were about fertilizer. This year, fertilizer was a popular topic, but so were irrigation and turfgrass mysteries.

1. Summertime syringing to cool bentgrass greens: I wouldn't do it today
2. Turfgrass Mystery: what happened to this green?
3. Turfgrass Nutrient Requirements and Fertilizer Choice
4. For irrigation, which is better? Deep and infrequent, or light and frequent?
5. How Much Potassium Does Grass Require?

I previously listed the 5 top posts from 2009, the top 5 from 2010, the top 5 from 2011, the top 5 from 2012, and #6 to #10 from 2013.

Last year, the most viewed posts on this blog were all about fertilizer. This year, turfgrass nutrient topics were popular again, but a broader range of topics made it onto the list. Here are #6 to #10 on the 2013 list:

6. The Unambiguity of Turfgrass Nutrient Indicies 

7. Turfgrass Mystery on the Putting Green

8. Explaining the Turfgrass Growth Potential

9. Using Waterfall Charts to Look at Soil Nutrient Levels: potassium as an example

10. An Exemplary Guide to Control of Turfgrass Diseases

I previously listed the 5 top posts from 2009, the top 5 from 2010, the top 5 from 2011, and the top 5 from 2012.

Coming up next week, I'll share the top 5 from 2013.

Various interesting posts hide in the back pages of blogs, and I've enjoyed seeing which of the posts from the early years of this blog were most popular, as measured by the number of pageviews.

Continuing with the lists of top posts by year since the inception of this blog in 2009, here are the 5 posts with the highest pageviews from 2012:

1. Five Articles Every Greenkeeper Should Read
2. Chemical Fertilizer Programs for Sand Based Rootzones - the 1 minute version
3. The Real Price of Fertilizer
4. Putting Green Fertilizer: getting it right
5. Calcium deficiency in turfgrass, an imaginary problem?

I previously listed the 5 top posts from 2009, the top 5 from 2010, and the top 5 from 2011.

Coming up next week, I'll share some of the most viewed posts of 2013.

Various interesting posts hide in the back pages of blogs, and I've enjoyed seeing which of the posts from the early years of this blog were most popular, as measured by the number of pageviews.

Continuing with the lists of top posts by year since the inception of this blog in 2009, here are the 5 posts with the highest pageviews from 2011:

1. An Interesting Technique to Modify Fairway Conditions in Thailand
2. Sandcapping or topdressing: which is better?
3. A Report From the 2011 Golf Course Maintenance Management Conference
4. Research on Weed Populations in Malaysia
5. How Much Potassium Does Turfgrass Need?

I previously listed the 5 top posts from 2009 and the top 5 from 2010.

Continuing with the lists of top posts by year since the inception of this blog in 2009, here are the 5 posts with the highest pageviews from 2010:

1. What Fertilizer is Best for Zoysiagrass?
2. China Golf Show 2010 at Beijing
3. Golf Course Renovation, Grass Selection, & Manilagrass
4. Guidelines for Tropical Turfgrass Installation and Management
5. Turfgrass Performance Data at the Open Championship

I previously listed the 5 top posts from 2009.

I started this blog on 1 January 2009. After nearly five years of writing, I thought it would be interesting to look back at the most popular posts of each year. There is a lot of information in the back pages of the blog.

In 2009, almost no one read what I was writing. Now, there are more visitors to the blog on a slow day than there were on the busiest day in 2009.

So what were the most popular posts (as measured by pageviews) in 2009? Here they are.

1. Mowing Patterns & Grass Color
2. Core Aeration of Putting Greens ... how much is enough?
3. Sodium Chloride for Weed Control
4. Seeded Sea Spray Seashore Paspalum
5. Turfgrass at Dubai

Coming up I'll share the most popular posts of the succeeding years.