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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: | Winter greens for the South |
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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. 189. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "At a neighboring club in Virginia they sow their Bermuda putting greens, just before the last topdressing in the fall, to a mixture of Kentucky bluegrass, redtop, and white clover, and seem to have excellent greens throughout the winter. Would you recommend this as a general practice?" |
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| Source of Question: | Virginia |
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| Answer/Response: | "The practice you refer to has been reported in some cases to give excellent results, but there are two objections to it. First, many golfers object to white clover in greens. Second, the general experience in the South seems to be that seeding Bermuda greens to winter grasses retards the return of the Bermuda grass in the spring. It is likely that this latter objection can be overcome by stimulating the growth of the Bermuda in the spring by including a liberal amount of ammonium sulfate or ammonium phosphate in the topdressing, and topdressing at about the time the Bermuda should commence to grow. As regards bluegrass, this is very slow in growing, and more rapid results are obtained by sowing a mixture of redtop and Italian rye grass on the Bermuda in the fall. These are both rapid-growing grasses. Possibly better results may be obtained by sowing the redtop alone, or the rye grass alone, and it might be well for you to test this out on different greens, sowing one to redtop alone, another to Italian rye grass alone, and a third to the two grasses in mixture. For quick results, heavy seeding is advised, redtop at 5 pounds, Kentucky bluegrass at 7 pounds, and rye grass at 15 pounds per 1,000 square feet." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Cultivar recommendations; Cynodon dactylon; Golf green maintenance; Recommendations; Seasonal variation; Seeding rate; Topdressing program; Winter play
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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. Winter greens for the South. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 5(8):p. 189. |
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