Bentgrass Nursery Update

As expected, we used up the entire 2,500 square feet of bentgrass sod that we grew in our nursery by 13 tee this spring.  Most of it was put into areas of Poa annua that died in the collars over the winter.

Back in the middle of July we reshaped the entire area and enlarged it to about 4,000 square feet of bentgrass, with an additional 10,000 square feet available as bluegrass (for fairways and roughs).  The area was seeded by the end of July, but unfortunately suffered a few very bad washouts from massive rain events in the 2 weeks following that really set the area back some.  Regardless, we continue to push the new turf along with additional fertilizer and topdressing in order to aid in establishment as fast as possible.  Here in the coming weeks we will even be putting an insulating cover on the area to keep the turf actively growing once we start to get some frost.  The goal is to get the bentgrass to the point where we can harvest it for use on the course again first thing next spring.

Alpha bentgrass just starting to emerge out of the sand on July 25th

Fast forward to September 5th, about 6 weeks later and the area is filling
in very nicely.