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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Restoring greens heavily infested with chickweed |
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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. 4, April 1926, p. 98-99. |
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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 confronted this spring with the job of killing the mouse-ear chickweed on 7 of our 9 greens. The weed is so general that the whole turf will have to be sprayed, and not simply the infested spots. To kill the chickweed we are planning to spray the turf with sodium arsenite, which will of course kill much of the grass also, and will make it necessary to replant the greens with seed or stolons. Our turf consists of bluegrass, redtop, and some bent. The soil of the greens is about 5 inches deep, and is about 65 percent muck and the balance clay top soil and sand. On this soil we have been able to produce wonderful turf of bluegrass, redtop, and some bent, but we fear it is so rich that if we attempt to replant with creeping bent it will produce a turf too coarse in texture. Besides, we feel that this muck soil will cause us much trouble from brown-patch if creeping bent is planted, as even the bluegrass, which suffers less than most other grasses from this disease, has been injured considerably from brown-patch. To attempt to change the soil this spring is entirely out of the question. Furthermore, due to the lateness of our springs, it would be after the middle of April before we could expect bent stolons to start growth in case we should decide to replant the greens with stolons. For that reason we are considering sowing the greens with bent seed, which can be planted earlier than stolons and which would not necessitate so extensive a tearing up of the soil. Seeding would enable us to save much of the present turf, and would require much less subsequent topdressing than would stolons. On the other hand, we recognize the superiority of a turf produced from stolons, and the use of stolons from our own nursery would obviate the expense of a large seed bill. We should like to have your advice in the matter." |
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| Source of Question: | Minnesota |
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| Answer/Response: | "We would advise you to spray your greens as soon as possible with iron sulfate in solution at the rate of 1 ½ pounds to a gallon of water. Rake off the dead chickweed, scratching the soil thoroughly with rakes, treat the soil heavily with ammonium sulfate well watered in, and then sow redtop seed alone at the rate of five pounds to 1,000 square feet. This will give you a turf for spring and summer play. There will be plenty of weed seeds left in the soil, so that it will be advisable to keep your greens thoroughly weeded during the season. Topdress through the season with compost reinforced with ammonium sulfate. In late August or early September plow up the old greens, seeing to it that a good quality of soil is thoroughly mixed with the layer of muck lying under the surface. Then plant your greens with bent stolons in the way advised in the article in THE BULLETIN, August, 1925, pages 181 to 183. If however you can not see your way clear to rebuilding all of your infested greens in this manner, it might be well for you to sow stolons directly on the established turf as advised in the article in THE BULLETIN, October, 1925, page 223. We would suggest however that you rebuild at least one green from the botton up to give you an idea of how it will respond in comparison with the greens in which the large percentage of muck is allowed to remain in a layer under the surface." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Ammonium sulfate; Application rates; Control methods; Mouse ear chickweed; Restoration; Sodium arsenite
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also related article "Suggestions for vegetative planting and subsequent care of creeping bent" The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section, 5(8) August 15, 1925, p. 181-183 R=49594 R=49594
See also related article " Converting established turf to creeping bent by broadcasting stolons and topdressing" The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section, 5(10) October 15, 1925, p. 223-224 R=49616 R=49616 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
USGA Green Section. 1926. Restoring greens heavily infested with chickweed. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 6(4):p. 98-99. |
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