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| Publication Type:
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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Reseeding bare spots and renovating thin turf |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 8, No. 11, November 1928, p. 234-235. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "We have some exposed knolls from the topsoil of which the humus has been pretty well washed out. We also have a number of small bare spots at other places on our course. We desire to thicken the turf in these places and shall appreciate your advice in the matter. Our fairway turf is still comparatively new, having been seeded in the fall of 1926." |
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| Source of Question: | New York |
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| Answer/Response: | "For the bare spots on the knolls we suggest you make a liberal application of a good grade of well-rotted manure, and plow it under, but not too deeply. The land should then be disked and harrowed until a good seed bed is obtained, when it may be sowed with a mixture of 70 per cent Kentucky bluegrass and 30 per cent redtop. After the grass has developed sufficiently to warrant cutting, an application of sulphate of ammonia mixed with dry soil would probably aid in getting a good turf quickly. The sulphate of ammonia should be applied at the rate of 125 to 150 pounds to the acre. Where turf is thin, much can be accomplished by top-dressing with a good compost in much the same manner as one top-dresses greens. We find that where there is a fair stand of grass, liberal fertilization will ordinarily do more toward thickening the turf than the scattering of additional seed. As fairway fertilizers for regular use we have had excellent results from cottonseed meal, pulverized poultry manure, and sewage slude applied at the rate of 400 to 600 pounds to the acre. If any of these organic fertilizers are too expensive, in some sections it is possible at times to obtain dried blood meal or fish scraps, which may be applied also at the same rate." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Agrostis alba; Ammonium sulfate; Golf fairway maintenance; Maintenance programs; Manures; Organic fertilizers; Poa pratensis; Recommendations; Turf recovery
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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):
USGA Green Section. 1928. Reseeding bare spots and renovating thin turf. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 8(11):p. 234-235. |
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