It has been a few weeks since my last post as we have been very busy on the course. Mother nature has been very kind with some timely rains so we have not had to run the irrigation much or do much hand watering which has allowed us to get some projects done but I think that is changing now as I see some triple digits in the forecast. Our new landscape manger Jill is doing a fabulous job on the flowers and so far she is succeeding with keeping the deer at bay with her Irish spring soap on a stick.
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| Irish Spring on a stick |
We built a new mix tank which allows us to mix two tanks of fertilizer at once. This is a large time saver and allows us to foliar feed the fairways which saves money and is a more accurate application.
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| Mix Tank |
The new greens are doing very well we did a double verticut on them and this is the amount of grass I removed off just one of the greens. Verticuting is like a thatcher that cuts the blades which grow sideways and encourages more upright growth and helps manage the thatch. We also verticut and sand all the greens every other week for thatch control and smoothness of the greens.
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| Verticut grass off of 6 green |
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| Our new flags with new logo |
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| Planting of new trees right of 5 tee |
Tim Kastning is letting us use his tree spade to move these large spruce trees from his nursery. We plan to put about 6 or 7 in to screen the transfer station.
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| Maverick keeping an eye on the deer so they don't eat the flowers |
