As you can see in the photo we are adding a planting bed here to help revive this area. Not only will this be a great addition but with the rising costs in fuel this will save us on having to mow this area. Greens were top dressed yesterday and will continue every Monday until the hot weather dictates us to hold back. If we were to top dress in the heat of the summer we risk damaging the grass blades when we would already be in a time that is stressful for the turf grass.I have also changed the way we top dress fairways this year kind of a trial to see how well we can blend in our very small thatch layer. In the past we would top dress two times heavily over the winter. This year we are top dressing heavily over the winter one time then taking the second application and splitting it into 5-6 applications so we can blend that layer. What I mean by that is to get sand to co-exist in the thatch layer. I really think that this will work out for every one and still completing our goals for fairway top dressing. As you can see this is hardly noticeable. Since we have started this program, going on 4 seasons, we have developed almost 1 inch of sand on the fairways.
