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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Benefit of lime to bent greens containing some clover |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 13, No. 3, May 1933, p. 85. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "We have some woods loam which we desire to apply to our bent greens, but as it is deficient in calcium we should not care to apply it unmixed with lime. Would the application of lime to our greens in this manner stimulate the clover to a dangerous degree?" |
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| Source of Question: | Virginia |
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| Answer/Response: | "Calcium and magnesium, which are contained in lime, are certain elements which soils require. Some grasses and weeds do decidedly better when ample lime is available in the soil. Usually lime increases the growth of clover. However, we have observed that, under close clipping, certain bent grasses, including Metropolitan bent, do not thrive so well when there is a deficiency of lime in the soil. The mere application of lime in order to give the bent what it requires will not of itself bring in clover. If however lime alone is applied the soil will soon become become deficient in other elements, such as nitrogen, required by grass, and the grass will accordingly suffer. Clover, on the other hand, is able to draw upon the nitrogen in the air, a faculty not possessed by grasses; hence when nitrogen becomes deficient in the soil it does not affect the clover materially, and the clover commences to crowd out the grass. Our work has shown that where conditions are made favorable for the growth of grass, the grass will compete favorably with the clover regardless of whether lime is supplied or not; consequently as long as adequate nitrogenous fertilizing is maintained on putting greens there need be no undue worry regarding the use of lime. Since your woods earth is deficient in lime you should by all means mix some with the earth at some time previous to its use." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Agrostis stolonifera; Calcium; Golf green maintenance; Liming; Magnesium; Nutritional requirements; Trifolium
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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. 1933. Benefit of lime to bent greens containing some clover. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 13(3):p. 85. |
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