With the extended lockdown we took advantage of the time to do extra vertidraining and overseeding of 6 of our greens (3 Thompson, 3, 5, 8 and 9 Homenuik and 3 Knudson). We started with a large/deep vertidrain and then swept sand into the holes to completely fill the channels.

All these greens were overseeded in two directions and then surfaces cleaned up. We have kept them wet to help the seed get started and now have began to roll and cut them. 

 
After a few days the surface is looking good. Hopefully in the next week we will see some seed begin to pop. The overall goal of this process is to continue to modify the soil profile and introduce a new, more competitive variety of bentgrass to the playing surface.


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