Despite temperatures sitting in the mid 50s for most of the last 2 weeks since we seeded our greens, we are starting to see some results. With the last couple days of increased temperatures we have been very satisfied to see growth throughout most of our greens canopies
As we move through the next few weeks I will be providing before and after pictures to show progression. Some progression is noticeable from a far but a lot of our progression becomes visual as you are closer to the greens surface.
First example is #9 Green. We expected to see some recovery from existing turf that was weakened by the winter, but looked like it may have chance of survival. One of the success's we have had in this situation is there was more surviving grass then expected, and that grass has grown vigorously and laterally to start filling voids in the greens canopy.
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| #9 Green April 7th |
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| #9 Green April 30th |
Second Example is #2 Green. This is a green where we new we had an uphill battle where the green appeared 90-100% dead. We were very surprised to see many positives on April 30th. The first being existing turf rebounding in some areas, but more significantly was the new POA and bent grass plants starting to emerge. The picture from afar encapsulating the whole green does not do justice. But if you lay down beside the green you really can see progression. Although we are a long way from playing on the surfaces, getting seed to germinate was a critical part of the process
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| #2 Green April 7th |
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| #2 Green April 30th |
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| #2 Green (Picture taken from the superintendent "Push Up " position) |
A couple of pictures that are definitely interesting to show seed bed preparation and achieving results.
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| Deep Verti-cutting April 16th |
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| Slices in turf canopy |
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| Germination of Bent grass and some POA in the slices April 30th |
