Ramblings

Thursday's miscellaneous ramblings....

Today we applied to fairways sulfate of potash fertilizer, with an analysis of 0-0-50 (the numerical analysis refers to amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, listed as a percentage of weight in each bag.) Potassium helps prepare turf for the stresses of summer heat and drought. Research shows that potassium helps to toughen plants by strengthening plant's cell walls, improve the plant's response to disease potential, and also helps plants to use water as efficiently as possible. Fertilizer particles will slowly degrade during summer, allowing plants to uptake the nutrient when it is needed most. Potassium was applied to greens and tees last week.

Also applied this week were soil deficient nutrients manganese, magnesium and calcium to greens and tees, and a complete fertilizer to practice tees (30-5-10.)

You may notice some darker green streaks on putting greens this week. The streaks were caused by overlapping sprayer passes of a nitrogen based fertilizer applied last week. I expect these streaks to disappear early next week.

To improve 60 yards of right side rough on #7, two sprinkler heads at 145 and 168 yards were changed in irrigation programs this week. Instead of running infrequently as rough heads, they will now run more often since we designated them as fairway heads in the computer.

We hope to see you out tomorrow, or during the holiday weekend!!!