Showing posts with label Greens Aeration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greens Aeration. Show all posts
Friday, March 18, 2022

Pound the pavement, Pound sand, You talkin about practice!

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 Well, its been quite some time since I've made a blog post so let's get after it.  POUND THE PAVEMENT That's been my phrase sin...
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...
Friday, March 27, 2020

Sand, Holes, More Sand, More Holes and Project Updates

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During this most difficult time, your grounds staff is preparing the course for what we hope will be some normalcy in the future. Our seas...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Spring Greens Aeration 'DryJect'

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Our spring greens aeration was completed today using a process called DryJect. We contracted with DryJect Tennessee who brought two machin...
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, March 19, 2018

Aeration of Greens Dry-Ject Week

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Spring is upon us so it's time for some inputs to our greens to help bring about strong and vigorous plants that will thrive during the ...
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...
Thursday, March 9, 2017

Spring Aerations, Here They Come

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This season we will be doing the DryJect Aeration process from our contractor. Scheduled initially for this Sunday PM and next Sunday PM, th...
Friday, April 8, 2016

Weather Stats for March, Water Line Repair/Cart Path Repair, Ornamental Bed Rejuvenation and More

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The very nice weather stats for March. MONTHLY RECORDS 9TH WARMEST MARCH ON RECORD TIED 2ND LEAST NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES OF MINIMUM ...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Leaking Water Line, Sod Laying, Mulch Spreading, Zoysia Grass Greenup, and Stump Sodding Oh My!

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A number of items to cover as we go into this weekend. The weather has been really kind to us with average temperatures 6-7 degrees above no...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Greens Aeration Final and Other Work

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Completed our last 3 greens this morning. Process included mowing, verticutting, pulling cores, picking up almost 2 million cores, applying ...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Aeration Update

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 Six of us worked till nearly dark this evening aerating our greens. We had a frost delay that slowed us a couple of hours. We were able to ...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Preview Video, Spring Aeration 2016

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The first of our two spring aerations will begin tomorrow, March 21st with a 1/2" core aeration. We expect to have all greens completed...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Post 15 Days Since Greens Aeration

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Its been 15 days since our greens aeration was completed and they are almost 100% healed. A few holes here and there still trying to close b...
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...