See ya

You know summer is coming to an end and some great fall weather is on the way when football season starts. GO BUCKEYES!

Sod prep

9 ready for sod. The prep job that the Spence crew is doing on the greens is second to none.

Bunkers!

Started working on bunkers today with some of the extra construction crew guys. Now that all the greens are drained, gravel, and mixed, we can start on bunkers.

Core collector

I purchased a core collector that drops all the plugs at the edge of the green. This worked pretty good and might help us scale down on the amount of laborers that it takes us to clean up greens after aeration. It worked good but I have some concern about bruising the grass with the box dragging I will monitor the green to see if the tool had any ill affects on the turf, but right now it looks like this was a great investment

Pg2

Really excited about the performance of PG2 and the 007. It has done fantastic this year, even with all the rain and the hot weather. It is getting time to aerate the green, prepping it for the fall. I am trying some different techniques this time with aerating the green.

We topdressed first, then aerate, then topdress again, roll, water, then drag when dry a day later. We shall we how it works.

Germination

We are starting to see a good amount of germination on the high areas that didn't wash out during last weekend rain storms. The low areas that were re-floated to fix the washouts are a little behind the rest of the green - they are close to greening up though.

Bentgrass normally has a germination time of 7-10 days. We are seeing germination in about 4-5 days. It just looks a little thin to start out because of the lighter seeding rate. It's important to keep the seeding amounts at the proper rate so the seedlings don't choke each other out. A heavy seeding rate will establish faster but will result in a much less healthy stand of grass.

We are going to seed another round of greens this weekend and the remainder will be finished the middle to end of next week.

Germination!

The rain didn't bother the nursery green by #1 because it is so flat and it had some germination already. This green was seeded 6 days ago.