Thursday is greens spraying day at Highlands CC. This mix includes a weekly application of foliar fertilizers and an every other week addition of a Fungicide. When a liquid fertilizer is applied to the turf in small amounts, the plant takes it up through its stomates. A stomate is very similar to a pore on your skin. This allows superintendents to have total control over Nitrogen release and growth. Superintendents lose control when granular fertilizers are applied with a spreader because the actual release characteristics of a given fertilizer are not exactly known. This whole method of small amounts is known as "spoonfeeding" greens. Excess Nitrogen is bad, leading to lush growth that makes a plant disease prone, weakens the root system and grows too fast, giving soft, slow greens.
