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 strength for winter dormancy.
Behind the potassium application came our first round of fungicide to defend against the spring dead spot fungus and also a pre-emergent application that should protect us against germinating Poa annua through January. Both of these products have to be watered into the soil even though we were pretty wet from the rain on Tuesday. This application was the reason we were closed Wednesday on the Manakin so we rolled the dice and got it done.
