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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Early spring treatment of putting 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. 10, No. 1, January 1930, p. 12-13. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "After the frost is out of the ground in the spring and the greens have been rolled, should the first treatment be the application of top-dressing, mowing the grass, or scarifying the turf with sharp-tinted rakes?" |
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| Source of Question: | Ohio |
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| Answer/Response: | "After the greens have been rolled with a roller weighing from 150 to 200 pounds to the foot and having a diameter of at least 18 inches, the first treatment should be mowing the grass. Top-dressing should be delayed until the grass is growing sufficiently to require almost daily cutting. At that time the turf should be scarified with sharp-tined rakes and then top-dressed and fertilized. Covering grass that is not growing is liable to result in smothering; also less injury will result from raking if this operation is delayed until the grass is growing vigorously. For the first application of fertilizer in the spring the use of a complete fertilizer is recommended, such as poultry manure tankage, cottonseed meal, or activated sludge (Milorganite). This should be applied at a rate of 15 to 18 pounds to 1,000 square feet, either by itself or mixed with the top-dressing. It would not be necessary to mix the fertilizer throughout all the top-dressing, but just in sufficient quantity to insure an even distribution. Such an application of a complete fertilizer should carry the greens for the first month or so in the spring, at the end of which time regular light applications of sulphate of ammonia should be started; these applications should be continued through the season until time for the last treatment in the fall, which should consist of another application of a complete fertilizer and a top-dressing and which may be expected to carry the turf over until the following spring. It is in early spring and late fall that complete fertilizers can be used to best advantage. Between these periods light applications of sulphate of ammonia (2 to 3 pounds to 1,000 square fett) and an occasional light top-dressing are all that putting turf seems to require." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Application timing; Golf green maintenance; Maintenance programs; Maintenance scheduling; Recommendations; Rolling; Spring maintenance; Topdressing program
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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. 1930. Early spring treatment of putting turf. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 10(1):p. 12-13. |
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