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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Improving sandy fairway soil; growing rye for soil improvement |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 7, No. 4, April 1927, p. 82-83. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "We are preparing to build the last four holes of our 18-hole course. The area is about 15 acres, which were covered with a sparse growth of scrub-pine and scrub-oak. The land is extremely sandy. There is a top layer of about 1½ inches of black sand produced, no doubt, by the decomposition of vegetation over a period of years, but when plowed to a depth of about 4 inches, which was necessary in order to dispose of the pine needles and smooth and level the land, this black sand was turned under and pure sand brought to the surface. Loam is scarce and expensive here, costing about $3 per cubic yard delivered. Stable dressing can be obtained only in small quantities and is also very expensive. Can you suggest some inexpensive method of fertilizing this area? It has been suggested that we grow' a crop of rye on it in the spring, to be turned under as soon as sufficiently grown, thereby getting some organic matter into the soil, and then in early September to seed the land with equal proportions of red fescue and redtop." |
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| Source of Question: | Massachusetts |
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| Answer/Response: | "If you can get a fair turf once started on your sandy soil you should be able to bring it later to good condition by fertilizing. If you have reason to believe that it would be unwise to sow your land until the soil is improved, and if you desire to seed the land this fall, we know of no other way by which you can bring your soil to a satisfactory condition than to add loam, and mushroom soil, or manure this spring. It is not likely that a crop of rye planted in the spring would make sufficient growth by early summer to permit you by turning it under to add any appreciable amount of humus to your soil. In order to become of any value, the rye would have to be turned under so early in the season as to permit it to rot and give the soil time to settle so that a firm seed bed could be established by early September. Rye sown in the fall, however, may be expected to make sufficient growth by the following spring to permit being turned under to some advantage. As to sowing your fairways with red fescue and redtop in equal proportions, we do not believe either of these grasses will give you a permanent turf. Under the conditions you describe, your best fairway grass should be Rhode Island bent. Although Rhode Island bent seed costs more per pound than red fescue, the seed is much smaller, and you would therefore require considerably less seed, and even. if sown in mixture with redtop would give you a permanent turf." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Fertilizer recommendations; Golf fairway maintenance; Loam soils; Recommendations; Sandy soils; Soil improvement; Soil management; Spent mushroom substrates
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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. 1927. Improving sandy fairway soil; growing rye for soil improvement. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 7(4):p. 82-83. |
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