After the past six months, many of us could use a good haircut, and we can include the course's native areas in this list as well. While we typically we wait until October to begin the process of mowing, the summer's weather has many of these areas out of control.
We did a spring mowing, and came into the summer with good weed control, however between July and August we had close to 16" of rain. Combine this with the summer's heat, and we had prime conditions for grass and weed growth--and lost balls.
In addition to the mowing, we have also gotten back on addressing any weeds, and are using a number of different selective herbicides to target the sedges, undesirable grasses, and broadleaf weeds. As we often say, you can call these native areas, Fescue, or low-mow, but you definitely can't call them low maintenance.
No comments:
Post a Comment