First and foremost I would like to apologize for not blogging lately. As always, the spring is full of to do lists with what seems like never enough time to complete them. The last month has been a very productive one. Our Grounds department has grown substantially as our staff has returned from school and all of our seasonal staff have started with the exception of our summer/highschool team members.
Cultural Practices:
This spring has been exceptional for performing cultural practices. The dry weather has allowed us to perform these tasks at an efficient and effective rate. Some of the jobs completed in the last two weeks are as follows:
Greens topdressed
Tees aerified, deep verticut, topdressed and fertilized
Approaches deep verticut, topdressed and fertilized
Fairways have been fertilized
*Fairways will be deep verticut next week (weather permitting)
Along with our cultural practices we have worked away at shifting and adding fresh sand to our green side bunkers and will continue until completed. The recent warm and sunny weather has finally given the turfgrass a chance to grow and fill in any bare areas left from last fall's very saturated conditions. Along with the growth of turf comes the growth of the broadleaf weeds, we have been diligently spot spraying the broadleaf weeds with backpack sprayers, thus to limit the amount of herbicide going down (but still enough to control).
Over the last few days another ``pest`` has been showing up on the golf course...maple keys from our silver maple trees! During this time of year the keys are falling at an alarming rate. So much that blowing the playing surfaces off in the morning has proven to become redundant...as we are reblowing all areas again each afternoon...
This weather has been great for growing grass and playing golf, hope to see everyone our here!
Cultural Practices:
This spring has been exceptional for performing cultural practices. The dry weather has allowed us to perform these tasks at an efficient and effective rate. Some of the jobs completed in the last two weeks are as follows:
Greens topdressed
Tees aerified, deep verticut, topdressed and fertilized
Approaches deep verticut, topdressed and fertilized
Fairways have been fertilized
*Fairways will be deep verticut next week (weather permitting)
Along with our cultural practices we have worked away at shifting and adding fresh sand to our green side bunkers and will continue until completed. The recent warm and sunny weather has finally given the turfgrass a chance to grow and fill in any bare areas left from last fall's very saturated conditions. Along with the growth of turf comes the growth of the broadleaf weeds, we have been diligently spot spraying the broadleaf weeds with backpack sprayers, thus to limit the amount of herbicide going down (but still enough to control).
Over the last few days another ``pest`` has been showing up on the golf course...maple keys from our silver maple trees! During this time of year the keys are falling at an alarming rate. So much that blowing the playing surfaces off in the morning has proven to become redundant...as we are reblowing all areas again each afternoon...
This weather has been great for growing grass and playing golf, hope to see everyone our here!
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