We have finish our fall aerification. It was a bit of a struggle but we got it done. Mother Nature did not cooperate with us this year. Hot and humid was not ordered by us, but we got through it without anyone getting sick. We aerated all greens except #12. We will do this green around first week of October. The hot weather gave us some problems with greens drying down after we aerated and before sand was applied. Brushing the sand in the holes with the high heat caused some bruising of some of our greens on the front nine. You will see some tan spots that were injured a little. They should grow out of it. The rain we received the last 2 days will help along with cooler temperatures. We also seeded all greens again with our new Bentgrass seed. We spiked the greens after seed was applied to give the seed as many channels to germinate in. The only down side to all the
rain we receive (4.75 inches) is it can float the seed up and out of the green if greens were covered in water. We only got wash on #11. All other greens look good. We might have to reseed #11green again. Below are a few pictures of the process.
Dan aerating greens we can do all greens in less than 8 hours.
Picking up cores
A cleaned green waiting for sand
Applying sand
Dragging sand into aerifying holes
Dan seeding green
Tim spiking greens.
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