Be careful what you wish for...

For years, we have battled weeds in the Native Areas of the golf course.  Included in this category of undesirable plants, are grassy weeds.  In early April, we made an application of two post-emergent selective herbicides, and the knock down of these non-Fescue grasses was really good--in some places, perhaps too good. 

It is easy to see the treated versus untreated section behind #10 green.

That is, in various locations, the grassy weeds are the dominant stand, with little Fine Fescue.  While we would typically do a wall to wall follow-up application a few weeks after the first treatment (which would hopefully be a knockout blow to the weeds which are already hurting), we took a more conservative approach with the second application, and only retreated areas which have a good stand of Fescue.

The mound separating #9 and 18 is great in some spots, but a bit sparse in other areas.

If nothing else, this brought two things to light.  For starters, it truly highlighted the areas where we need to either sod or seed new Fine Fescue to reestablish a clean stand.  Second, it's great to see that we now have some products available to keep these areas free of unwanted plants once the Fescue is in place.