Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Vertical mowing of greens

Now that we are healed in from the small aeration we have started to verticut the greens again. With the warm weather and all the fertilizer releasing to grow back in quickly, the greens have been on the slow side the past few days. They are growing like crazy. We double verticut the all three practice greens and then cut them for a second time today. We will then verticut all the greens on the course tomorrow morning and mow them as well ahead of play.  This cuts out excess lateral growth and stands the leaf up to get a good cut.  They will still be a tad on the slow side for a few more days, but with the verticutting, extra mowing, and some rolling we will get them back up to speed.

Standing the grass up 2 directions
Machine used to verticut

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