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| Verti Drain Operating on #1 Green |
Some of the greens (those with a little or no substance to their root zone) have a tendency to overly "puff up" when aerated at too deep a depth. For those greens we lessened the depth and slowed the tractor which seemed to help keep the turf in place. This time out we also rolled the greens with the tractor and aerator after we finished aerating and that really seemed to help lessen the "puffiness" factor.
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| Rolling to Smooth the Green Surface
Depending on our spring and the health of the greens after this winter, we will have to aerate again early in the season to make up for missing this falls hollow core aeration. I am still not sure how that will work itself out but the hope is that by pulling a core early on in the spring the greens will be able to recover from both styles of aeration in the time it would normally take for the surfaces to recover from just the fall's deep tine.
If there is any good news this fall it could be the fact that we found very few trees (just over 20) attacked by the pine beetle. The flip side is the fact that some of those trees we found were very large Ponderosa's that dominate the scenery a KGC.
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| Cleaning up Ponderosa on #6 Fairway |
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| Hauling Logs From #15 Green |
As before, we will take the infected trees and process them in some fashion so as to kill the beetle.
