Carl operates an Integrated Pest Management regime with pesticide usage being a last resort
periods, to 4.5mm, but only when the grass is growing vigorously and for no more than three to four days at a time. Scarification is carried out in the spring and autumn and supplemented with an active programme of brushing, verticutting and turf grooming. Aeration is a key operation at Caldy with Carl using an array of mechanical aerators to keep his playing surfaces open. These include the use of hollow tines; solid tines, slit tines and deep heave vertidrain machines. During the summer months, the greens will be aerated to depth, dependent on need and prevailing weather conditions, on a three to four week basis. They will also be either star slit or sarrel rolled on a weekly/fortnightly basis. Built around
these scheduled operations will be the intervals for topdressing using between 120 and 170 tonnes of dressing, depending on the season.
Carl operates a minimal fertilising
regime, having reduced the input of N from 160 kg N /Ha to 40 kg N/ HA. Powdered fertilisers (8:0:6) are used in spring and occasional turf hardener applications are used early spring and autumn. The USGA greens will probably receive a second spring and summer application. Otherwise liquid seaweeds and turf tonics are used on a regular basis throughout the rest of the season, and Primo Maxx has been part of the programme for the last two seasons as it fits with what Caldy are trying to achieve. Careful use of irrigation water is a
prerequisite, with hand watering of fine turf areas preferred. Automatic irrigation is only used as a tool to wash a product into the sward and only as a last resort for irrigation purposes. A mixture of granular and liquid wetters is used, being preventative rather than curatively. Carl operates an Integrated Pest Management regime, with pesticide usage being the last resort. Hand weeding is preferred. Carl accepts some level of leatherjacket damage and, so far, preventative insecticide applications have not been required. They do have a small amounts of disease and are still applying fungicide every autumn, with the aim of this not being required in the medium term. However, as Carl says, you can never say never.
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