Showing posts with label Deep tined aeration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deep tined aeration. Show all posts
Monday, March 13, 2023

Greens Aeration

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 Well, we've survived winter or have we. I bet if you asked our crew who spent 11 hours out on the course today that winter is still in ...
Friday, April 3, 2020

Oops I Did It Again

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No, we aren't talking Britney Spears here ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about millions of holes in our golf greens at Glen Ec...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Fall Greens Aeration

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Today our staff started our fall greens aeration program completing the practice green, greens 1-9 and 11-13. We will complete 10, 14-18 ove...
Thursday, November 1, 2018

Fall Aeration 2018

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This past Monday and half of Tuesday, the staff did our every Fall deep-tine aeration with our Verti-Drain machine. This process involved a...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Deep Tine Aeration, Why do we do it?

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Made a video explaining why we deep tine aerate our greens. Little visual with an actual 8" plug from a green explaining the green syst...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Time to Catch Up

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I apologize for little activity on the blog lately. Time to catch up.  Course has held up well this fall. A little bit of rain has been help...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Weather, Aeration and Frost Delays

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Multi-message post. After a slow start on Monday with aeration, the staff slammed the rest out on Tuesday. Greens were not under regulatio...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Greens Aeration, The Full Story

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Our fall greens aeration is our most concentrated project each season which requires using every staff member to complete this task. It is o...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Preparations For Greens Aeration on Monday, October 19th

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Over the next few days, we will be increasing the watering of our greens to push moisture through the profile. I sprayed a couple of wettin...
Friday, October 24, 2014

That time of year, Deep-tine aeration planned for this Monday, October 26th.

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In an effort to not disrupt ball roll out in the late summer/early fall, I delay greens aeration until the end of October.  Well, that day h...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Video Course Update for the week of 7-28-14

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A little video course update for your viewing pleasure this week.  Continue to check blog for regular updates as well as the twitter feed on...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Greens aeration

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We were delayed by frost this morning but once we got going, the staff did a great job in completing 15 of our 19 greens.  Everything was co...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Deep Tined greens Aeration planned for the week of October 28th

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I wait as long as I can before the greens are aerated at Glen Echo CC.  Fall putting conditions are usually the best of the year so I try to...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Solid deep tined aeration of tees

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We are attempting to get as many tees as possible aerated today before the rain arrives.  We are using our Verti-drain deep tined aerate on ...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Greens Aeration Completed, A Detailed View

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Our spring deep-tined greens aeration was completed on Tuesday afternoon.  I've attached a few video clips of the work and will discuss ...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Solid deep tined aeration starting today

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We are starting our aeration today with the verti-drain deep tines aeration.  Our process includes the following: Aeration going 8...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Greens Aeration Completed on Tuesday, March 28th

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Our spring greens aeration was completed over Sunday evening, Monday until dark and completed on Tuesday at noon.  It took about 144 man hou...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Back 9 greens aeration completed

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The back 9 greens aeration was completed today.  Holes poked, topdressed, sand blow and brushed into holes, greens brushed and rolled.  The ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Verti-drain deep tined greens aeration Fall 2011

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Our deep tined greens aeration started on Monday afternoon once we were able to get a small outing through the first hole.  We completed 4 h...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Solid tining zoysia tees

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On Monday of this week, we used a solid 1/2" tine on our zoysia tees to provide some deep aerating to our tees.  We were able to go ab...