Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Our Greens Profile




This is a photo of a soil profile tool laying on 12 green.  It shows a cross section of the turf, roots, 22 years of topdressing with sand and the subsoil.  Topdressing every three weeks lightly with sand creates a great medium for our roots to grow and to create a smooth well draining surface.  Every other year in the spring we use 10 inch deep tines on our greens to aerify the soil and break through the two different layers to encourage rooting.  Check out the aerification channels with roots coming out the bottom.  Here are two photos of the deep tine machine that helps us get these great roots on our greens.

             

Photos from Around the Club

So cool seeing 11 baby ducks show up at our lake about two weeks ago.  I don't see them out and about every morning but glad momma is ra...