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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: | Moss on a bowling green |
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| Section: | Enquiries and replies
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| Source: | Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute. Vol. 70, 1994, p. 143. |
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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 a wet summer in our part of the world and the moss which normally infests the green coming out of the winter, but which we then eradicate with spring lawnsand and scarification, has shown no sign of abating. There is now almost as much moss as grass, producing a very soft and slow surface, much to our members annoyance. How can we get rid of the moss without decimating our playing surface?" |
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| Answer/Response: | " Moss has the irritating habit of growing in conditions which are unfavourable to vigorous grass growth. There are a variety of causes for moss ingress into fine turf, e.g. excessively wet or dry conditions, turf which is overly acid or alkaline and shade. Moss is a biological indicator of environmental conditions and the type of moss in the turf can indicate what is wrong in relation to sustaining healthy and vigorous turf and hence, what needs to be done to correct matters. The moss found in your turf is a fern-like trailing Hypnum species which favours wet surface conditions and a moist, spongy turf. Previous management of the green has exacerbated moss ingress, particularly excessive feeding and watering which has promoted a dense band of water-retentive thatch at the turf base. In addition, over-close cutting in an attempt to get a faster surface has scalped slight high spots through the green, providing gaps in the turf into which the moss has grown. Unless you deal with the conditions which encouraged the moss in the first instance then it will reappear each year, possibly in an ever increasing amount as the body of spores increases and decaying moss produces softer turf. Thatch is the main problem to overcome here and autumn renovation of the green must involve intensive scarification and hollow tining. The top dressing applied should contain no peat, being a mixture of sand and a sandy loam soil. Obviously, cut down the amount of water and fertiliser applied to the turf during the growing season. Iron can be spread to kill the existing moss. This is perhaps most simply achieved with an early autumn or a spring lawn sand. Alternatively an approved dichlorophen moss killer can be used. Once the moss has blackened it must be carefully raked out. Moss control should be carefully timed, there should be apparent grass vigour as knocking out the moss when the turf is dormant will merely leave gaps in the sward into which the moss can creep back in." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Bowling greens; Dethatching; Dichlorophen; Moss control; Recommendations; Sports turf maintenance
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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. 1994. Moss on a bowling green. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 70:p. 143. |
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