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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: | Reseeding fairways on snow; seed mixture for fairways |
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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. 12, December 1925, p. 286. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "We had in mind reseeding two of our fairways next spring, on which the grass is quite thin. What would you think of scattering the seed on the snow during the winter with the expectation that the seed will work down into the soil as the snow melts? Would the cold have any bad effect on the seed?" |
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| Source of Question: | Pennsylvania |
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| Answer/Response: | "It is perfectly proper in the North to sow fairway grass seeds in the winter on top of the snow. In fact, it is desirable to do this, as the grass thus gets started considerably earlier in the spring than would otherwise be the case. The cold weather of the winter will not hurt the seed in any way. We would advise you to have your mixture consist pretty largely of redtop, with some bluegrass, and if you want it a little white clover, at the rate of 1 pound of redtop to 1 pound of bluegrass. This rate will, in fact, give you at least four times as much redtop seed as bluegrass seed, due to the marked difference in size of the two kinds of seed. The value of the redtop lies in the fact that the seed germinates more quickly than bluegrass seed, and the seedlings make much more rapid growth, and the redtop plants will later disappear as the bluegrass develops." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Agrostis alba; Choice of species; Cultivar recommendations; Golf fairway renovation; Poa; Seed mixtures; Seeding methods; Seeding time
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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. Reseeding fairways on snow; seed mixture for fairways. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 5(12):p. 286. |
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