There was some algae that popped up and the greens were yellowed out. The rain flushed the sodium out of the profile, it was acting as a natural growth regulator (and not a positive regulation) on the bentgrass, which was good, but it also pushed out a lot of the available nitrates through the soil, resulting in some yellowing for a few days. We are surging with growth right now even though they are under chemical regulation. For this reason, we mowed on Monday and Tuesday, but I needed to give them a break today. Normally we would mow everyday but they were looking wore down yesterday from all the rain and lack of sunlight.
11 was the only one that really looked bad. We ran the Subair quite a bit yesterday and today which helped dry it out.
They look 100% better today. Now that we are completely healed from aeration...They should start to get progressively faster every day going forward through the fall. I'm going to really start pushing them now that I know we are through the recovery.
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