This is #5green. It was the last green we aerified on Thursday. We applied about 35 tons of sand and dragged it into over 1 million holes for the 18 greens plus putting green.
This is the putting green. It was aerified on September 12.
This is green #18. It was aerified on September 23.
This is green #5. It was aerified on October 6.
This shows the importance of aerifing early. The later we aerify the longer it takes to heal up. As the days get shorter and cooler, recovery slows. The entire process took us 7 working days. On the best days we completed 4 greens so we didn't go into overtime. With the smaller staff, we had to put other jobs on hold as we needed the entire staff to help. Our aerifier only goes 4 inches deep. I hope we can get back on the deep tine (8-9 inches) next fall to improve the root zone on our greens.
Next week, we plan on finishing the tees and small fairways. We need to finish as I need to start cutting staff after next week.
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