We have officially concluded our fall aerification on the greens and with just a few storms to contend with everything turned out great. The greens were aerified two times, the first was using our standard tine and then we top dressed. The second aerification consisted of using a larger solid tine to just poke a hole and top dressing was applied as well. There is a whole host of benefits to doing this but my goal is to promote more sand concentrations in that top 2 inches of the green.
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| First Step, Pulling Cores |
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| Removing the cores, this is the organic matter we want out. |
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| Top Dressing to fill all of the holes |
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The holes on the left are the second Aerification, holes
on the right is from the first aerification. |
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| Our sweep n fill brush fills the holes up to the top. |
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| All of this work requires a heavy roller to smooth out the surface. |
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| Here is the finished product. |
