Yesterday I was tasked with carrying out some maintenance in a small flowerbed. I believe that the ornamental turf pictured is Carex buchanii.
Maintenance included trimming approximately 1/2 the length of the foliage, and any fallen leaves too.
After raking away the remaining debri, we topped up the bark-chip mulch layer.
After repairing this bunker we were tasked with replacing the turf in the immediate vicinity. The head greenkeeper kindly invested in a new rotovator which was highly effective in preparing the soil without much effort prior to planting the new turf. Once the area had been rotovated, we raked the soil to the desired levels and then compressed it by stepping over the area systematically. Thereafter we raked it again to smooth it over.
In order to minimise damage caused whilst cutting tees with a triplex mower (due to turning), the head greenkeeper set some of our greens mowers at 10mm height of cut (HOC). We then used these to cut the tees with an impressive result.
