The bermuda is awake

The bentgrass is also actually trying to wake up as well. The Sabot greens were verticut, topdressed, brushed and mowed once again on Tuesday. Remember, the Manakin greens will be Dryjected and aerated with small 1/4" coring tines on Wednesday the 3rd which is next week. Once this process is complete we will not be aerating the Manakin with anything significant until late in October.

Our injury areas on the Manakin are starting to move a little. More sod will be going down early next week. 

The rest of the Latitude is really starting to grow. Green surrounds and some fairway landing areas are scheduled to be topdressed next week as well.

We are getting our answer about how the bluegrass and vamont will transition in the spring pretty quickly. You are looking at over 50% vamont bermuda coverage already in the bluegrass fairways, tees and approaches. The spring transition will be seamless, it is the fall transition that will be the most interesting.

After an intense season of irrigation last year we picked up our first causality inside the pumphouse. Pump number two had a bearing vaporize causing the pump impeller to seize up. The pump will be repaired and placed back in line with the 4 other 75 hp pumps.

Unlike bluegrass and bermudagrass, trees and bermudagrass do not grow well together. We are seeing great results from the root pruning that we did back in December. By pruning the trees lateral roots, it has allowed the surrounding turf to retain more moisture and nutrients.

Our slow release fertilizer is out all the way across the property, it is time to grow some turf!