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 8^th

Verti-Drain Greens 1-12

Aerify Fairways 1-6

Graden Tees/Approaches 1-11

Topdress/Seed Fairways 1-5

April 9^th

Verti-Drain Greens 13-18

Aerify Fairways 7-15

Graden Tees/ Approaches 12-18

Topdress/Seed Fairways 6-13

April 10^th

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 8^th

Verti-Drain Greens 1-8

Aerify Fairways 1-6

Graden Tees/Approaches 1-11

Topdress/Seed Fairways 1-4

April 9-10^th

Snow on the ground

April 11^th (still snow on the ground)

Verti-Drain Greens 9-16

Graden Tees/Approaches 12-18

April  12_th

Verti-Drain Greens 17-18

April 15^th (snow starts mid day)

Aerify Fairways 7-11

April 16-18^th

Snow on the ground

April 21^st

Aerify Fairways 13-15

April 22^nd (snow starts mid day)

Aerify Fairways 16-18

Topdress/Seed Fairways 8,10,11&13

April 23-24^th

Snow on the Ground

April 29^th

Topdress/Seed Fairways 7,15,16&18

Topdress/ seed all Tees & Approaches

Final cleanup