Iron sulphate and FDP on Old Fairways

25kg in a tank @ 300l/ha

FDP = Fusarium disease protection

Seeding disease scars then dressing with green sand

Irrigation leak / repair

Some insects on a green

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Spray tees with Fe

Grubs and bird / crow damage

Some strimming today

Disease pressure

There is loads of dollar spot that sprung up in the fairways, hence the spraying. This morning the course manager put up the irrigation on everything for 1mm. The cycle ends at 0600 and the reason given is to remove the dew off the turf and hopefully relieve the disease pressure. 

Spray old course greens and fairways

Fairways:

infill

Wetting agent 

Iron 

Greens:

Infill

Spray old greens with wetting agent and fome Fe and Mg mix

Spray fairways with wetting agent

Sometimes it's just nice to look out

Light top-dressing of greens and aprons

The day after

The day of dressing

Tee marker maintenance

Foraging damage

Double cut greens with the triples

Quick overview

May-June 315mm of rain

July-August 18mm of rain

It hasn't rained for 4 days now, so good for the course to dry up

Last week the greens. fairways and tees were sprayed with infill and iron. Greens had manganese added to the mix. 

The aprons have been getting cut with a triple mower (perpendicular to the walk-behind mower lines)

Greens height has been lowered to 2.75mm from 3mm. The reason for this is to keep the speed-up whole not putting any primo maxx on. The reason to not put sny primo on is to allow the new seed that we planted to grow faster.

Trying to help the greens cover from severe disease scars

Dry spots and low rainfall

We've had only about 5mm of rain in the past 40 days now. Temperatures are up too and the evapotranspiration (ET) rate over 5mm/day.

The course manager has ample water available on site and is irrigating at least 2mm per evening. This equates to approximately 1.2 million litres an application. What's quite impressive is that this volume of water is applied in a window of about 4 hours.

I will get more information about this and create a separate post.

What is important to note is that even though our irrig
ating practices cannot match the ET rate, the course is still looking great!