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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: | Wet, mossy fairways |
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| Section: | Enquiries and replies
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| Source: | Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute. Vol. 50, 1974, p. 118. |
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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: | "Several of our fairways have a lot of moss in the swards and are soft, spongy and wet during the autumn and winter. Soil samples from the areas are enclosed for testing and your advice." |
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| Answer/Response: | "Tests show that the soils are a little, but no excessively acid and there are reasonable levels of phosphate and potash. Give these areas as much mechanical spiking as you can when ground conditions are suitable through the winter and early spring. Next April treat the areas with nitro-chalk or similar at the rate of 1 ½ cwt./acre. As soon as fairly steady growth is occurring carry out vigorous and pretty severe harrowing using a short toothed grassland harrow. The work must be done quite thoroughly to open up the fibrous surface and drag out the moss. Resulting debris should be removed. As an alternative to this you could consider using one of the recently developed gang unit scarifiers for fibre removal. The purchase of one of these machines should be justified if many of your fairways are like this but if you are going to do fairly regular extensive operations of this nature then a large mechanical litter collector might be necessary to help with the tidying up afterwards!" |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Evaluations; Golf fairway maintenance; Harrowing; Moss control; Recommendations; Soil analysis; Spiking; Vertical mowing
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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. 1974. Wet, mossy fairways. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 50:p. 118. |
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