I know I've been lazy so I'll throw out this quick update. Sunny days are helping and things have really moved over the past couple weeks. Most greens are good with small problems on the usual suspects. I am not sure why but the upper putting green (or some call it the new putting green) is dead. That whole thing deserves its own post so I'll comment on that later.
The usual suspect greens are a combination of tarped greens and those
other greens with a bit of a history of being difficult. Time and heat
are a good combination for most problems.
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| 7G March 29 |
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| 7G April 2 |
I was glad to see how quickly the plug greened up. The problem, as is always the case in spring, is how to get the whole surface to green up that fast.
Take a look at these:
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| 15 Green April 5 |
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| 15 Green April 11 |
Soil temperature for the top picture was 12 degrees C while soil temperature for the the bottom picture was 15 degrees (temperature taken at about 1.5 inches below the surface). One weeks time and an increasing soil temperature has made a big difference in the appearance of this green. What I'm not showing you is the back of this green. On April 5 soil temperatures were only 5 degrees C and the turf was very brown. Today the soil temperature was 9.5 and the back looked like:
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| Back 15 Green April 11 |
No screaming hell but the point of all these pictures is to show how soil temperatures and not necessarily air temperatures are important in getting the turf to green up in the spring.
