Thursday, May 2, 2013

Aerification Post Mortem



Aerification is always a difficult process to go through without something major going wrong mechanically or weather related. This year we had both come into play with the weather being the major disrupting factor.  Normally we are able to complete aerification in three long days of the  greens, tees, approaches and fairways.

Below I will layout out our Spring 2013 three day timeline of aerification.

April 8th
Verti-Drain Greens 1-12
Aerify Fairways 1-6
Graden Tees/Approaches 1-11
Topdress/Seed Fairways 1-5
April 9th
Verti-Drain Greens 13-18
Aerify Fairways 7-15
Graden Tees/ Approaches 12-18
Topdress/Seed Fairways 6-13
April 10th
Aerify Fairways 16-18
Topdress/Seed Fairways 14-18
Topdress/Seed all Tees/ Approaches

Below this is the timeline of how Spring 2013 aerification actually played out.

April 8th
Verti-Drain Greens 1-8
Aerify Fairways 1-6
Graden Tees/Approaches 1-11
Topdress/Seed Fairways 1-4

April 9-10th
Snow on the ground
April 11th (still snow on the ground)
Verti-Drain Greens 9-16
Graden Tees/Approaches 12-18
April  12th
Verti-Drain Greens 17-18
April 15th (snow starts mid day)
Aerify Fairways 7-11
April 16-18th
Snow on the ground
April 21st
Aerify Fairways 13-15
April 22nd (snow starts mid day)
Aerify Fairways 16-18
Topdress/Seed Fairways 8,10,11&13
April 23-24th
Snow on the Ground
April 29th
Topdress/Seed Fairways 7,15,16&18
Topdress/ seed all Tees & Approaches
Final cleanup



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