Move along...there's nothing to see here.

Independence Day is now behind us, and if things have been a bit quiet on the blog front, let's take that as a positive (aka, no news is good news).  There's little doubt that no two years are alike, and while 2019's rainfall has given us some flashbacks to 2018, we'd like to think that we learned from last year's weather extremes, and are better prepared to handle them.

As previously mentioned, we are continually tweaking the operational plans on the golf course.  With most changes we make, if done correctly, you will never see them.  Here are some examples of this:

Crabgrass Control--After having breakthrough on collars the past couple of years, we made a carefully timed pre-emergent herbicide application to them this spring.  So what do you see?  Nothing that should't be there--the picture below is from 2018, with the collars having no Crab this year.

Take-All Patch--This disease took up a lot of blog space over the past several years, but not so much in 2019.  It appears that the fungicide treatments we made last October, prevented disease development and symptoms this spring.  Again, the picture below is from 2018.

Practice Tee--The cool season grass is entering the time of year when the seedlings struggle, and are constantly threatened by disease.  We installed Bermudagrass on the back of the upper tee in June, and it is now ready for use.  As it thrives in the heat, this turf will provide a great hitting surface for the next few months.

July has been awfully hot and humid thus far, and we've got a lot of summer left to contend with.  It will be great if  we can continue to report on "nothing" for the next several weeks.