A little bit of warmth in the sun late this week but still probably not enough to really make  it things happen although there is a lot of Couch greening up around the place but not really thickening up. 

We had to renovate 2R green this week as it was in very poor condition after being hammered last Saturday in the final round of the club championships. The green was so wet on Saturday morning that we weren't able to mow it and then a full field really took its toll on the playing surface in the rain. We gave it a 19mm hollow tine then added some amendments and gave it a good sanding with amended sand. The difference was noticeable almost overnight after we were able to get so much oxygen to the roots and dry the surface out. It would be nice to try and get the rest of the greens done but with the golf program coming up that doesn't suit and we still have about five weeks to the River course renovation.  The green is affected by shade and has very poor air circulation which prevents drying and is almost always the wettest of the River greens.  Only really having the one entry and exit spot doesn’t help things either with so much wear concentrated there.

I think I have already mentioned it on the blog but we are expecting to have a bumper crop of weeds come up this year following the floods. Other courses that have dirty”” floods have the same issue when so much seed bank gets deposited on the course.  We started this week with a pre-emergent herbicide application across 80% of the course and will finish that next week. We also started with some spot spraying to control some weeds in greens surrounds and fairways and some boom spraying around greens on the West course on Thursday. The River course will be done next week. 

Dye indicating areas spot sprayed.

Boom spraying around 14W.