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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Quantity of bent stolons necessary for planting a green and a nursery |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 5, No. 8, August 1925, p. 188-189. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "We want to get sufficient creeping bent stolons to plant a putting green of 5,000 square feet and a bent nursery of about 10,000 square feet. What quantity of stolons will be necessary for these purposes?" |
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| Source of Question: | West Virginia |
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| Answer/Response: | "You can figure on the basis that 1 square foot of sod from a creeping bent nursery will furnish sufficient stolons to plant 10-square feet of putting green surface; thus 500 square feet of nursery sod would be required for planting a putting surface of 5,000 square feet. As for your bent nursery, if you plant the stolons in rows 6 feet apart, so that the rows can be cultivated for keeping down weeds and furnishing a better soil bed for the stolons to spread in, 3 square feet of nursery sod will, under ordinary conditions, plant a nursery row 100 feet in length. Your 10,000-square-foot nursery would require 17 of these 100-foot rows, to plant which 50 square feet of nursery sod would be ample. If, however, you have facilities for giving your nursery especial attention after you plant it, the quantity of nursery sod required to plant your nursery could be reduced to one-third the proportion we recommend, or 17 square feet. That is to say, it is possible to produce a good nursery by planting the stolons from 1 square foot of nursery sod in a row 100 feet long. In this way the development of the nursery row is somewhat slower, and as results do not appear so quickly there is generally a tendency to neglect the row. Moreover there is a likelihood also to cover the stolons too deep, and this further tends to retard their development. By especial attention to the nursery row, we mean planting the stolons carefully and covering them lightly (not over-one-fourth of an inch deep), watering carefully, and weeding carefully, until the new stolons have begun to make a good growth. If you expect to produce sod in your nursery, the same amount of stolons would be required as for planting a putting green." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Agrostis stolonifera; Golf green construction; Nurseries; Recommendations; Sodding
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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. 1925. Quantity of bent stolons necessary for planting a green and a nursery. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 5(8):p. 188-189. |
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