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topdress or not?
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I visited a bowls club recently and was informed that they had been advised not to apply topdressings as part of their annual maintenance programme.
It would seem, therefore, that I have been doing something wrong for the last thirty-five years and, obviously, many others like me. The club had been given reasons not to topdress as follows - it can lead to thatch build up, localised dry patch and it causes the indigenous soil to become inert and devoid of life.
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All of these reasons not to topdress have been aimed at bowls clubs where the greens are actually out of play from October to April, a luxury many sportsturf managers would relish; not only resting the green during the most stressful time of the year but also providing more than enough time to deal with all of the negatives mentioned earlier through correctly timed aeration, thatch removal and nutrition programmes carried out, where appropriate, throughout autumn winter and early spring months.
So, let’s look at the issues raised.
Thatch build up through topdressing: Yes, possible, if the programme is mismanaged; for example, over applying and burying the grass leaf on a regular basis without carrying out the correct procedures to remedy the situation.
I have grown-in two new golf courses and numerous new greens and, without the use of copious amounts of topdressing on a very regular basis, standards and targets would never have been met. The resulting fibre build-up through such grow-ins will, without doubt, be greater than that of a regular topdressing maintenance programme but, in my own experience, was easily remedied. I would suggest that quite the opposite is true, in that regular light topdressings actually help to stop thatch building up by diluting vegetation, creating good water infiltration and allowing oxygen to penetrate into the immediate soil profile. When the sand is blended
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