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“Despite not actively overseeding, it has been evident that, in certain areas of these greens, we now see small patches of natural bent appearing”


and rolled. To be honest, the golfers don't even know we have done it; - it just looks like one of our normal, light sand dressings has been carried out. Early October saw the last solid tining, again with the 12mm tines to a depth of


into the soil/clay base just compounds the problem. Also these small drain lines will not suck water away in any great volume. We are now opening up the top to allow the sand bands to do their work at their own rate. For the sand lines, too big a tine would let too much water in, they would not cope or move the water any better, in fact a learned drainage machine designer and manufacturer of gravel banders once told me that he thought that the use of a vertidrain with ¾ tines just destroyed and broke up the integrity of the drainage lines and allowed the ingress of more soil and silt particles.


In summary, by the spring, we had


6”. From November to January the greens were slit tined once a month. I have almost got to the stage of allowing a certain amount of rain to run off a firmer surface, as the water going


total recovery to a point where there was no evidence of any lines appearing in the turf surface. The surfaces throughout the summer were probably the smoothest and most consistent they have even been. Even only mowing at 5mm they were too quick for the majority of our customers stimping at about 8.5 - 9.0 (to achieve this the previous summer we were mowing at 4mm).


They will never perform, dry out or


give you the filtration rates like a sand green, but help you get over the worst of the softness and water retention. This can assist in the fight against thatch and black layer, and give you half a chance. I did tend to have to put a couple of mm more water on via the automatic irrigation system when we did have the odd dry spell and it did take a bit of getting used to. Now, through this winter they are still performing admirably - we always play in ice, frost, rain - you name it, we don’t have temporaries or ban trolleys. We are still triplex mowing greens two times per week at 6mm and have much improved surfaces. They obviously cannot shift as much water after a large amount of rain as a sand based green, but their drying time is much quicker than before.


It has not been immediately obvious to us that the drier surfaces have yielded any less occurrences of disease, as we have not unduly suffered with this problem anyway - we should have, given the nature of soil push up greens. But, our normal last resort, to spray an application of fungicide tank mix two


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