Only about one month behind schedule everything is starting to grow. Yes we will hang on for about two weeks with this surge of growth.
Our greens are just now getting up to a good soil temperature to start growing and rooting. We have had several inches of rain so the soil is rather saturated. It is always important in the spring to let the plants be somewhat happy and develop some good roots going into the summer. With all the rains our penn cross grass is puffy right now, this may continue as we keep some areas more moist trying to grow new seed in several areas. So for now we have not started any verti-cutting or lowering of height of cut. We did over the weekend use our new turf trainer on the greens. This basically drags over the grass plants standing them up, providing a better cut way less aggressive than verti-cutting. Speed of green will come as they warm, dry out and we get on a more normal maintenance routine.
The new seed in the fairways is starting to grow. When we seeded we used a low mow blue grass / rye blend. What we see coming up right now is the rye grass, the blue grass should germinate within the next week or two. It is real important to keep your golf carts off these new seeded areas until they are fully mature. Shown below is the germination starting.
Please Stay Off All New Seed Areas!
Our weather looks to be more normal.
We will see you on the Course!
Ross
