Aeration, rain, armyworms, fungicide, pre-emerge, its all here
With a low pressure system bearing down and packing plenty of rain for Tuesday, we setup all three aerators and knocked the Manakin greens out before 3:00 on Monday. 1/4" cores were pulled out of the greens profiles, removing a little bit of thatch and gunk build up, making way for some clean coarse sand. The cores were quickly blown off and picked up by a team of 8 people while the rest of the crew mowed fairways and approaches on both courses in preparation for the rain. Our normal calcium, potassium, humic acid and zeolite clay amendments were spread out and then dry sand was laid on top and brushed in. The greens were rolled out and the storm dropped a slow 1.5 inches of rain on top, washing the sand in nicely. The greens will be mowed tomorrow and either rolled or mowed through the weekend. This will be our final core aeration until March of next year! Behind the mowers Monday we were also able to put out our fall potassium application to help the bermuda build up some str