Thursday, August 23, 2012

Seeding greens

We have seeded the first round greens. When we sees we first go down with about 5 pre-plant products to help provide all the needed nutrients that the new seed needs. After this we rake the entire green, seed in the raked direction at a half rate, rake again in another direction, seen a second time in a different direction, rake a third time, water for a short time and then finally roll the green when the sand has dried to the perfect moisture level. If you roll when it's too dry it makes ruts, and if you roll when it's too wet it will come up in clumps and get sand and seed everywhere you don't want it.

Once the seeding is complete I will set up a program to water each head on a green about 10 min every hour - repeating all day. We should start to see germination in 7-10 days.

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