Our golf course has no water bodies on it apart from the drainage ditches that run alongside most of the fairways. There are a few areas however that could potentially be made into small ponds with an inlet and outlet so that the water stream at the outlet side is still uninterrupted when the pond is bring fed.
After spraying a dew inhibitor it is quite easy to spot any areas that had been missed. Although I hate to admit it, from these pictures it is clear that I missed a spot or two.
This highlights the importance of the need to be 100% sure that the sprayer achieves 100% coverage. Although relatively small, these missed areas could make a difference to the area in which they are located.
Last week we sprayed the greens and aprons with the mixture of products seen in the pictures. This in the hope of helping strengthen the turfs resistance to disease.
Two weeks ago I was tasked with collecting soil samples from six of the greens on the course for testing at a lab. I was given six plastic sandwich bags and each was labelled with tge number of which green the sample needed to be collected from.
The head greenkeeper said that I need to take cores from five different areas on each green. Each time I needed to mix the soil from yhe core and place a small quantity into the bag. This in the hope of achieving a representative sample of the soil on each green.
For the past couple of months we have been spending most of our time blowing and collecting leaves. Thankfully, many of the deciduous trees have lost most of their leaves and we'll soon be able to carry on with other tasks.
