Fall and leaves

Some great weather for golf the last couple of weeks but as the calender moves forward, so does the process within our 1000 trees on property to begin the yearly dropping of their leaves and needles.  The early round of trees include the Ash, Walnut, Locust, Cottonwood, London Plane Tree and White Pines which are shedding their second year needles.

We have two blowers, two rough units with mulching decks and our green surround unit which has mulching decks as well.  We utilize our leaf vacuum for the later round of leaves near the end of the month when the piles become too big to run our rough unit over the top.  Leaf clean up will probably take place everyday over the next month.

We will utilize our cart with pull behind belly blower to keep greens cleaned during windy days when backpacks just cannot keep up with the leaves raining down.  On the weekends, we clean the leaves off of the greens first thing in the morning ahead of the mower and will come back after lunch and do another round of cleaning for weekend afternoon play.  During the week, we will use our large area blower to remove leaves from the fairways and will create win-rows in the rough so our rough units can grind the leaves into smaller pieces allowing them to break down more quickly.  We will blow off the fairways on the weekends but are limited in the time we can spend on the course so we do not disrupt our morning weekend players.

We appreciate your understanding as we try to chase down the leaves from our trees.