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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: | Heather management on the golf course |
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| Section: | Enquiries and replies
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| Source: | Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute. Vol. 67, 1991, p. 169-170. |
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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: | "Over the past 10 years or so we have noticed a marked decline in the area covered by heather on the course and the vigour of those patches which remain. Being a heathland course we are obviously keen to reverse this trend but how do we go about it?" |
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| Answer/Response: | "Heather decline can be brought about by a variety of factors including wear (trampling of golfers), competition from grasses or bracken, incorrect management allowing the heather to grown leggy. liming or the overuse of chemical herbicides. The STRI ecological and conservation management service has played an important role in identifying the problems associated with specific sites, which must be individually assessed and recommending the most suitable remedial treatments. In your case excessive wear has led to heather loss and infrequent topping has promoted leggy growth. Controlling traffic flow, keeping well used routes away from stretches of heather and implementing a cutting programme appropriate to revitalising areas is needed. This entails a combination of approaches. To quickly recolonise relatively small areas introduce heather sods to cultivated ground. For more extensive regeneration the removal of thatch and cultivation of the underlying humus layer is necessary; where the bank of heather seed in the humus is reduced or has been eliminated it will be necessary to broadcast heather seed in such areas. Reinstatement of heather is a long process and the future success of the programme will be reliant on your approach to restricting traffic away from heather and complying with the management programme of heather which we have outlied." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Calluna vulgaris; Cultural methods; Heathland golf courses; Maintenance programs; Recommendations; Traffic control
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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. 1991. Heather management on the golf course. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 67:p. 169-170. |
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