A lot of the Bermuda around greens is pretty smoked. There is some green tissue in there but I think I might have to sod some of it. We will aerate and topdress these areas in a few weeks to help with recovery and sod whatever doesn't come in. I have to wait to sod it because it too early in the year to get good, non-overseeded Bermuda. You don't want to put overseeded next to the greens because you could never get rid of the ryegrass and it would be spotty through the summer.
This grass is knocked back from a higher rate of roundup in the winter used to kill all the bentgrass the got outside the collar during washouts while seeding. Roundup is the only safe chemical to use this close to greens that will take out the bentgrass. Normally there is no problem with stunting the Bermuda (we spray about 70 acres of the golf course with it each winter) but when you have to manually backpack it around greens the rate can get a little high.
No comments:
Post a Comment