Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Tee aerification

This morning, our aerifier is out in full force working on a few tee boxes.  Come late August, we have a lot of areas that are sealed off and trying to move water down is near impossible, even with the use of wetting agents.  Failure to move water into the soil results in turfgrass wilt- small brown spots.  By punching a hole- a 5/8" hole in this case- we are able to bypass the thatch and organic material to move water where it is needed.  We are not aerifying all tees on the golf course, rather we identified a list of about a dozen tees that give us trouble.  We will also be aerating a couple small areas in a fairways here and there.  None of this will impact golf and will largely go unnoticed.  Our main tee aerification process is schedule for sometime in mid-October.