Thursday, December 5, 2013

Agronomy Department and Course Weekly Update
December 5, 2013

I can’t believe it is December already, it seems like yesterday the Club voted to convert to MiniVerde greens.

It has been another rainy week on the course. We have not been able to finish spraying our PreEmergent tank due to the rain.  No worries, we have plenty of time to finish. We have been testing different paint/pigments to use on the greens once they go completely dormant.  We have used the Nursery Green as our trial green testing 4-5 products and it is beginning to look like a checkered quilt.  The goal is to paint the greens once they go completely dormant, so if we have a warm winter, there is a possibility we do not paint at all.

I hope everyone is enjoying the new greens; I have been pleasantly surprised how great they are putting for being almost dormant.  It gets us excited in the Agronomy Dept, to focus on attacking the golf course this summer while the greens are running this quick.


If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at kmacdonald@valleycrest.com and for more information follow us on Twitter @stivescc_vcsup and the Blog: http://vcgmstivescountryclub.blogspot.com/


See y’all on the course,

Kyle Macdonald, GCS, Class A


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