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Publication Type:
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Content Type: | Q & A |
Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
Title: | Comparative costs of producing creeping bent turf from seed and from stolons |
Section: | Questions and answers Other records with the "Questions and answers" Section
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Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 5, No. 7, July 1925, p. 167. |
Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
# of Pages: | 1 |
Question: | "From time to time the question arises as to the relative practicability of planting greens from creeping bent stolons or from German mixed bent seed, viewed from the standpoint of the course with limited means. Which, in your judgment, is the cheaper and more satisfactory method, when bent seed of about 50 percent purity may be obtained for $1.00 or $1.25 a pound? What also is the length of time that will be required to get the turf fairly well established?" |
Source of Question: | Oregon |
Answer/Response: | "Ordinarily bent turf can be produced more cheaply from seed. If, however, a club has its own nursery of creeping bent the additional cost of planting stolons is not great, and the quality of turf produced by the stolon method is much better, particularly as regards uniformity. If you use seed, your turf will be mostly Rhode Island bent, some velvet bent, and a little creeping bent. It is the common experience that the expense of upkeep for a creeping bent green planted vegetatively is less than for a green grown from mixed bent seed. If seed or stolons are planted in September the turf should be perfect by the following May, and sometimes it will be in good condition even the same fall." |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Agrostis stolonifera; Golf green establishment; Recommendations; Seed costs; Seeding time; South German Mixed Bentgrass; Stolon growth
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Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): USGA Green Section. 1925. Comparative costs of producing creeping bent turf from seed and from stolons. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 5(7):p. 167. |
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