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| Author(s): | Karcher, Douglas E.;
Rieke, Paul E. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Karcher: Department of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas; Rieke: Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan |
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| Title: | Water injection cultivation of sand-topdressed putting green |
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| Section: | Soil physics & rootzone construction
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| Meeting Info.: | Llandudno, Wales, UK: July 10-15 2005 |
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| Source: | International Turfgrass Society Research Journal. Vol. 10, No. Part 2, 2005, p. 1094-1098. |
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| Publishing Information: | Aberystywth, Ceredigion, UK: International Turfgrass Society |
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| # of Pages: | 5 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Water injection cultivation; Sand topdressings; Golf greens; Root zone; Macropores; Hollow tine coring; Native soil greens; Agrostis stolonifera; Porosity; Bulk density
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| Cultivar Names: | Penncross |
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Regular applications of a thin layer of sand to a turf surface to dilute thatch and increase firmness is a common putting green management practice. Following several years of regular sand topdressing, putting greens may develop sand layers of 5 cm, or greater, that overlay a finer-textured native soil. When water injection cultivation (WIC) is exercised on these types of putting greens, rootzone material is often blasted to the turf surface, which could seal surface macropores if the material originated from the underlying native soil. A study was initiated to determine the effects of WIC and hollow tine culivation (HTC) treatments on the mixing of a sand topdressing layer with an underlying native soil. Treatments included three frequencies of WIC (weekly, biweekly, and monthly), HTC twice per year, and an untreated control. 'Penncross' creeping bentgrass (Agrostis palustris Huds.) sod was established on a 5 cm layer of sand overlying a loam soil, to stimulate a putting green with a significant accumulation of topdressing sand. After one year of treatments, there were no differences in rootzone layer mixing among cultivation treatments. After two years of WIC weekly treatments, however, there was more sand and less clay in the underlying soil compare to HTC and the untreated control. WIC weekly resulted in less sand in the topdressing layer. There was no evidence of rootzone layer mixing beyond 2.5 cm either above or below the sand-native soil interface. Control plots exhibited significantly more moisture stress symptoms than cultivated plots during periods of high evapotranspiration." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 14 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Karcher, D. E., and P. E. Rieke. 2005. Water injection cultivation of sand-topdressed putting green. Int. Turfgrass Soc. Res. J. 10(Part 2):p. 1094-1098. |
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