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I am a confessed Toro fan, but my view is for individual jobs. I will pick whatever machine is best, irrespective of the colour


Controversially, the next step was Laser, which kills everything apart from fescue and poa including the highland bentgrass; this is horrible and leggy (similar to creeping-bent) and you would see platelets of it, which would catch your eye and look awful. Before applying Laser, I had undertaken a lot of overseeding with chewings and creeping fescue then, in August last year, I bit the bullet and went for it. It did exactly what it says on the tin and killed all the bentgrass,


however some of the bare patches fi lled back in with poa over the winter. So, we sprayed again at the end of spring to pick up anything we had missed or any regrowth and the results have been tremendous; we are pretty much fescue dominated now. The fescue does not respond well to scarifi cation and verti-cutting, so we only groom.” Aeration on the greens tends to be carried out more in winter using the Toro ProCore 648 as well as the Verti-Drain, when


they have a little bit more moisture. “Every couple of months, they will get a solid tine at varying depths, so as not to create a pan using the 648. It’s a fantastic piece of kit; probably my favourite machine in the shed.”


“Our renovation weeks are relatively simple. We will overseed using the Toro ProCore using blunt tines to pot seed six to seven bags a time of a fescue mix, which works a treat. I apply a granular


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