It's been a little while since I've updated our blog; oh my have we been busy. Between building the nursery/chipping green, the championship tee on 14 and re-sodding a few tees on the golf course, we've been really going at it. Please enjoy the pictures of our work on the projects below.
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| Nursery Green sprigs |
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| Topdressed sprigs - water runs every 1.5 hrs to keep them growing |
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| #5 Tee before sod cutting - fresh Zoysia is going down today! |
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| #14 tee with 'Zorro' Zoysia grass - an excellent shade tolerant variety |
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| The finished tee box. We can't wait for this to grow in. |
Regarding general course conditions, I am very pleased with how the golf course came through the winter. Some tree trimming and tarping greens seems to have been successful when compared to the last year. We are also happy to have had warm weather return much sooner than it did last year. The greens are filling in nicely; we are working to smooth them out with several practices including grooming, brushing, topdressing and vertical mowing. We will be doing a 1/4 inch hollow tine aeration with topdressing April 18 and 19 to open the greens up and remove a little organic matter. I have also been pushing the fertilizer on the tees and green surrounds to get them recovering and growing much quicker and fuller.
We had our mole cricket application last week. We had 50 acres of a labeled mole cricket insecticide slit injected into the fairways, tee complexes, and green surrounds. There is some adult mole cricket activity as this is their mating time. We will be supplementing the insecticide with an additional spray application in areas that were not treated and have a history of problems and turfgrass injury in May.
