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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Changing fescue greens to bent by broadcasting stolons; using creeping bent sod produced in the 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. 7, July 1925, p. 165. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "Our greens, which are three years old, have fescue as their base. Last year they were in good condition, although they contained considerable clover. This year they deteriorated badly and are most unsightly, notwithstanding we seeded them several times during the year. In fact, there is little left but clover and dandelions, with the latter predominating. Five of the greens have been taken up, about one-half a carload of sand disked into the soil of each green, some drainage defects remedied, and creeping bent stolons broadcast. We also have a creeping bent nursery which we planted as a putting green which will give us turf for sodding two more greens next spring. This will make a total of seven greens in creeping bent. We are proposing to plant about two acres of putting green surface in the spring, maintaining it as such and transferring the sod to the balance of the eleven greens next fall. Do you think well of this idea, or would you recommend that next fall we broadcast stolons rather than transfer the actual turf?" |
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| Source of Question: | Illinois |
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| Answer/Response: | "Three methods have been used with very considerable success in converting mixed turf or turf of any other grass into creeping bent turf by the vegetative method. These are as follows: (1) Cutting gashes into the turf and putting in each gash a piece of bent stolon three or four inches long. The objection to this method is that it is very laborious and costly. (2) Plugging. This method is all right, but the plugs spread slowly. (3) Broadcasting cut stolons. This method has proved to be a great success and has been employed on a number of golf courses. The turf on the green is first cut short, preferably after having raked it both ways so as to cut off as much of the old turf as possible. Cut stolons are then broadcast, topdressed, and rolled. It is best to leave the green out of play for two or three weeks, although play can be allowed to proceed right on if there is serious objection to leaving the green out of play. Creeping bent will entirely replace any other grass on a green when treated in this manner. Best results are obtained when the work is done in late summer, although it is practicable at any time of the season. Do not forget the benefit that will be derived from light and relatively frequent topdressings of the stolons after they are planted; this practice, together with relatively close cutting, helps materially in hastening the development of good bent turf." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Agrostis stolonifera; Broadcast seeding; Conversion; Golf green renovation; Plugging; Recommendations
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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. Changing fescue greens to bent by broadcasting stolons; using creeping bent sod produced in the nursery. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 5(7):p. 165. |
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