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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: | Sawdust for greens |
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| Section: | Enquiries and replies
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| Source: | Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute. Vol. 35, 1959, p. 104. |
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| Publishing Information: | Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK: The Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "It has been suggested to our greenkeeper that he should dress certain greens with softwood sawdust. We would appreciate your comments and advice." |
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| Answer/Response: | "The position is that we have been doing trials with sawdust as a top dressing and have found that it can have a beneficial effect in firming up and improving the quality of the herbage on soft turf containing a lot of annual meadow-grass and liable to disease. It is not a material that we normally recommend, but one golf club is Scotland has been using it, along with other treatments, for a year or two, with satisfactory results. The possibilities of the sawdust doing any harm are remote and you may therefore care to try it on one or two of your greens. Softwood sawdust is better than hardwood and you should mix it with your compost in some agreeable proportion. Possibly it would pay you to let us have a sample of the compost or soily material you have available so that we could suggest a proportion to suit. You must appreciate that the sawdust is not in any sense a "feed" so much as a conditioner. In fact the probable reason for its benefits is that it is likely to tie up plant foods to some extent. Benefits would be seen partially in the drier, firmer putting surface fairly quickly, but alterations in the botanical composition would be expected to take some years." |
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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. 1959. Sawdust for greens. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 35:p. 104. |
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