Work schedule for the week of May 28th

Fungicide applications to greens, tees and fairways.
Calcium treatment to the club house courts on Tuesday the 29th,
Soil and sod the edges of the new cart path on 12.
Tournament prep for the CSGA Senior match play scheduled for June 4,5,6.
Finish installing annuals and mulch at the 8th tee.
Our normal cutting schedule this week will include a double cut of all in play rough areas.

Deer Tick Control

 The usually warm winter and spring has changed the timing of control programs for many types of weeds and insects. Insect populations are normally reduced during the cold winter months. Treatment programs in 2012 commenced earlier the normal and in many cases extra applications of control products were added to existing control programs.
Controling ticks and especially deer ticks is especially difficult. The naturalized ,"high grass", areas on 8, 11 and 15 are treated with insecticide twice in the spring and when the high grass reaches a height of 6 inches, Tick tubes made by Damminix are placed every 30 feet along the perimeters of the high grass areas. Mice, who are the host animal of deer ticks will take the cotton balls in the tubes back to their nesting area and use the cotton for bedding. The cotton balls are treated with a Permethrin, a product that will not harm the mice, but will kill and deer ticks on the mice or in their nests.
The treatment is repeated every month throughout the months of May, June, July and August

Planting Annuals

During the 4 days before the Memorial Day weekend, the golf and grounds staff will clean and replant annuals around the clubhouse, pool house, snack bar, and on the golf course.
Pictured is Stanislaw Dabrowski, who during that week will plant over 4600 flowers. After Stan works his magic, all the planting beds and ornamental grass areas are mulched with either sweet peat or cedar bark mulch.
In total 60 cubic yards of cedar mulch is used along with 50 cubic yards of sweet peat.

Scheduled Work for the week of May 21st

* Continue prep for opening of the pool on Saturday May 26th.
* Calcium Chloride treatment of the pool tennis courts on Monday May 21st.
* Fungicide treatment of fairways.
* Paving of the rebuilt cart path at 12 green.
* Planting of our annual flowers at the clubhouse, pool and on the golf course.
* Detailing of the golf course for the Memorial Day weekend.

12th Green Cart Path Reconstruction

Removal of the old asphalt

 Today we started to replace the cart path  from left of the 12th green to the 13th tee complex. The old path has several cracks and areas that were lifted because of tree roots. The old asphalt was removed and the path was widened from 6 feet to 8 feet for easier equipment access. A six inch crushed gravel base was added and compacted. The new path will be paved early next week. After paving the sides of the path will be put back to grade with top soil and sodded.

Removal of an old tree stump on the edge of the old path

The sides of the path will have soil and sod added to give the project a finished look.

Work Schedule for the Week of May 7th

 In addition to our normal cutting schedule for the week we will be dry-jecting our greens on Monday May 7th.
 Dry-jecting is a process that injects sand using water at high pressure into the soil to help modify the root zones in our greens. The process creates inverted V channels in the soil and fills those channels with sand. Dry-jecting, which is a form of aerification, but less disruptive, provides channels for air and nutrients to get into the root zone.
After the injection process is completed the green surfaces are brushed and rolled, which makes them immediately playable.




If the weather cooperates we will also be starting our herbicide application for broadleaf weeds this week and finishing our tee topdressing.

Fairway Aerification

 Our spring aerification of fairways was completed yesterday, May 2nd. Because of our always busy spring schedule we out source this aerification.
Turf Pounders from New Jersey arrive at 6:00 AM and with normal conditions usually complete the aerificiation of our 27 acres of fairways and set cuts in one day.

 We use solid 3/4 inch aerification tines for this procedure. Holes are typically 3 inches deep on  2 inch by 2.5 inch centers. A fairway top dressing usually accompanies this aerification, but because of the very mild spring the golf and grounds staff was able to top dress the fairways 3 weeks ago.

Use of solid tines provides the channels for air, nutrients and water we are looking for and leaves the surface playable immediately after aerification.