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| Publication Type:
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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| Title: | Re-establishment of agricultural land |
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| Section: | Enquiries and replies
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| Source: | Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute. Vol. 38, 1962, p. 450-451. |
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| Publishing Information: | Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK: The Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "We have submitted three samples of soil taken from different parts of a field which we wish to bring back into our course. The land was given up to agriculture during the war and since then has grown oats, wheat and barley. We would appreciate any suggestions you can make as to the treatment and type of seeds mixture required for making fairways on this land." |
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| Answer/Response: | "In preparing the land for seeding down it is important to get it clean and if possible to sow it at the best time of the year. This might be found rather tedious but you would get better results in the long run. Our idea would be to plough the land and fallow it next summer, i.e. cultivate at intervals to eliminate weeds which germinate from time to time with a view to finally preparing a seed bed for sowing during the latter part of August. The soil samples show no lime requirement but fairly low plant foods. A suitable pre-seeding fertilizer would be a granular containing 10% nitrogen, 15% phosphoric acid, 10% potash, applied at the rate of 4 cwt. per acre. The seeds mixture we suggest you sow at a rate of 1 ½ to 2 cwt. per acre is: 28 lb. S. 23 British certified perennial ryegrass, 28 lb. American Chewings' fescue, 28 lb. S.59 creeping red fescue (Variety approved), 14 lb. Cambridge or Dutch Prato smooth stalked meadow grass 14 lb. American browntop After the grass has established it should be fertilized in the first growing season. If you sow in August 1963 then in the spring of 1964 you should repeat the granular fertilizer dressing mentioned above. We do not like spring sowings which are prone to be affected by dry weather which results in poor establishment, while at the same time weeds grow and smother the young grass. If you risk a spring sowing then the follow-up dressing of fertilizer should go on in July according to circumstances." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Farmland conversion; Golf course construction; Recommendations; Seed mixtures; Seeding time; Site preparation
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Sports Turf Research Institute. 1962. Re-establishment of agricultural land. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 38:p. 450-451. |
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