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| Publication Type:
| Refereed |
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| Author(s): | Baker, S. W.;
Woollacott, A. R.;
Hammond, L. K. F.;
Owen, A. G. |
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| Author Affiliation: | The Sports Turf Research Institute, Bingley, West Yorkshire |
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| Title: | Sand dressing of golf fairways and practice grounds as a possible method to reduce earthworm casting |
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| Source: | Journal of Turfgrass and Sports Surface Science. Vol. 81, 2005, p. 40-46. |
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| Publishing Information: | Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK: The Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| # of Pages: | 7 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Sand topdressings; Earthworm castings; Earthworm control; Golf fairways; Sand shape; Sand particle size
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| Abstract/Contents: | Trials were carried out at three sites to examine whether heavy sand dressing could reduce the amount of earthworm casting activity on golf fairways/practice grounds. Factors examined included the effect of sand application rate, grain size and grain shape. The effect of grain size and application rate were not consistent. On one golf course, casting was significantly reduced, relative to the untreated control, for two out of three years of monitoring when a medium-fine sand was applied at 16 kg m-2. However, no effects were evident at a lower application rate (8 kg mt-2) or when a medium-course sand was used. On a second golf course, however, casting rates were significantly higher when sand dressing was used. On the third site, when a 20 mm layer of sand was included to stimulate the build-up of sand top dressing over eighteen monitoring dates, but casting was higher on the same plots on six occasions (no significant differences were recorded on the other eight dates). There was some evidence that angular, glass-derived sand led to lower rates of casting than more rounded conventional sands, but in practical terms the reduction in the number of casts was relatively small, i.e. from an average over all sampling dates of 21 casts m-2 to 19 casts m-2 when the glass-derived sand was used. Although the results suggest that the effects on the number of casts were small, it was noted that where sand dressing was used, the casts did tend to disperse more easily under rainfall and were incorporated more easily into the turf by brushing and other forms of mechanical disturbance. |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 10 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Baker, S. W., A. R. Woollacott, L. K. F. Hammond, and A. G. Owen. 2005. Sand dressing of golf fairways and practice grounds as a possible method to reduce earthworm casting. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 81:p. 40-46. |
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