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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: | Improving "winter-killed" 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. 6, No. 2, February 1926, p. 48. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "A recent examination of one of our greens discloses that the turf is far from being up to the quality desired. Our greenkeeper reports that it has suffered from winter-killing. Please inform us what causes this condition and what step can be taken to remedy it." |
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| Source of Question: | Pennsylvania |
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| Answer/Response: | "Injury from winter conditions rarely happens to turf that is properly drained. Water-logging of soil over winter will however seriously injure turf, and this condition can be remedied only by giving the green proper drainage. If there is a reasonably good stand of grass on a green (thin but uniform), it can be thickened by applications of compost and ammonium sulfate. An application of 1 cubic yard of compost to 2,500 square feet of surface is recommended for the first dressing, to which has been added 8 to 12 pounds of ammonium sulfate, well mixed in. This should not be applied, however, until such time in the spring as the grass starts growth. Where the grass is entirely killed out it is advisable to prepare the green as for new seeding. Where there is sufficient grass to be worth saving, though not enough to permit of thickening by the use of compost and ammonium sulfate, the seeding of German mixed bent seed and redtop seed, in equal proportions, at the rate of about 3 pounds per 1,000 square feet, is recommended, to be followed at once by a topdressing of well-screened compost to cover the seed and serve as a germinating layer." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Drainage improvement; Golf green maintenance; Recommendations; Turf recovery; Winterkill
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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. 1926. Improving "winter-killed" turf. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 6(2):p. 48. |
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