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| Author(s): | Grau, Fred V. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Agronomist, West Point Products Corperation, West Point, Pennsylvania |
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| Title: | Grass planting - methods and devices |
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| Meeting Info.: | Baltimore, MD: February 8-9, 1954 |
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| Source: | 1954 Annual Conference Mid-Atlantic Association of GolfCourse Superintendents. 1954, p. 28-33. |
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| Publishing Information: | West Point, PA: West Point Lawn Products |
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| # of Pages: | 6 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Planting; Seedbed preparation; Golf tees; Traffic; Seeders; Compaction; Vegetative establishment; Roots; Sodding; Seeding; Aerifiers; Sod; Establishment; Sprigs; Seeding methods
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| Abstract/Contents: | Describes methods and tools that may be used for planting grass. Suggests that "in considering the problems of grass planting, the greatest one that faces [turfgrass managers] is not the establishment of grass in a prepared seed bed but rather establishing improved grasses into existing turf where the grass is quite unsatisfactory, developing the new turf without taking the area out of play." Explains that "golf course tees are notably difficult in this regard because under heavy watering to make the ground soft enough to insert a peg tee and constant traffic, it is difficult to maintain a turf." States that "the alfalfa seeder or the grain drill is one of the devices that has been used to plant grasses into established turf with varying degrees of success." Discusses seedbed preparation, stating that "there is an ample choice of machinery to do the job properly. Cultipackers, discs, harrows, combination cultipackers and seeders, all make the job relatively easy." Reports that "there are various methods of preparing grass for planting, especially where these grasses must be planted vegetatively because there is no seed. One of the methods...[is] the use of the Rototiller in tearing the sprigs loose after which the sprigs were broadcast on a prepared seedbed and firmed in with a caterpillar-type tractor...The Verti-cut mower is being used for preparing sprig material by feeding sod through the whirling knives." Also discusses sodding, stating that "soild sodding is becoming much more important...Many times sod is cut far too thick. It takes weeks for it to knit to the soil and for the nursery from which it was taken to heal." Mentions sod plugging. Concludes that "the satisfactory rapid low-cost establishment of improved grasses into existing turf areas without taking the areas out of use is one of the most challenging problems facing the agronomist and the engineer." |
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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):
Grau, F. V. 1954. Grass planting - methods and devices. p. 28-33. In 1954 Annual Conference Mid-Atlantic Association of GolfCourse Superintendents. Baltimore, MD: February 8-9, 1954. West Point, PA: West Point Lawn Products. |
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