Winter time is a great time to prune and "clean up" some of our mature trees. Our contractor is currently on the property removing any dead, diseased or broken limbs from some of our trees. During the fall we experienced a couple of snow/wind storms that resulted in some major tree damage. Our staff worked incredibly hard to clean up the debris before winter arrived. Well, as we all know winter arrived early and so did the snow. The amount of snow that we recieved in London this year made it very difficult to get around the golf course to do work. With the conditions that we now have, no snow and frozen ground, we are able to bring in the "bucket truck" to reach the more difficult limbs. During this process the aborist and I are evaluating some of the trees on the property for further care (with reference to our tree report). This will help prevent any damage or dangerous situations with relations to trees.
A week has passed since our annual spring greens aeration. We have had a mixed bag of weather, hot, dry, cold, wet and even frost! These conditions make it challenging to aid in healing, but with the more recent consistent warm temperatures we are seeing solid recovery. We were fortunate to have decent weather to complete the process on time, allowing us to fill all the holes created by the 1/2” hollow tines. As there are some minor depressions within some of the holes we will be beginning our bi-weekly topdressing program early next week. Our team is mowing and rolling our greens daily, while slowly lowering our height of cut to our summer norm. We all know that spring cultural practices are not popular among golfers, but these all important tasks are the building blocks for high performance greens conditions throughout the heart of the golf season. Check out this video produced by the USGA on Aerations effect on putting...
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