| As we move forward with the greens health our goal is to concentrate more resources on other areas of the golf course towards steady improvement. This year we have applied a pre-emergent herbicide on the fairways to stop crabgrass and other weeds from germinating this Spring, as well as a post-emergent herbicide to kill the weeds and unwanted grasses that were present; the next step is mow the fairways down to 3/8" this will give us a good starting point for the 2012 golf season. Scheduled at the end of March is a 25 week slow release fertilizer application; the fairways are also going to be verti-cut and aerated over the next 4 weeks. The verticutting will remove unwanted thatch to relieve disease threats and encourage rapid lateral growth; while the aeration will relieve compaction and incorporate O2 into the soil profile. |
