exile
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Post by exile on Aug 17, 2022 10:16:06 GMT 1
Indeed, and with a product that I think will be in every household and sold for under 1€ per litre. A litre could do a lot of damage too.
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Post by Seaboots on Aug 17, 2022 10:39:03 GMT 1
Yes, greens turf grass (Agrostide Stolonfera) is an exotic grass which is very delicate. It doesn’t like most chemicals except certain fungicides and can be easily mutilated and diseased. You won’t believe how much tlc and expense is required to keep greens healthy.
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Post by omegal on Aug 17, 2022 10:56:04 GMT 1
Yes, greens turf grass (Agrostide Stolonfera) is an exotic grass which is very delicate. It doesn’t like most chemicals except certain fungicides and can be easily mutilated and diseased. You won’t believe how much tlc and expense is required to keep greens healthy. Especially now that certain chemicals from fungicides and insecticides that were previously used to treat courses have now been banned, so the jobs have become much tougher to keep greens in top condition. It is now, as you have just said, down to tlc and finding new ways to keep greens healthy. For a few years we had sangliers destroy parts around the greens or on the greens and so at great expense some years back fencing was put up where it was believed it would stop them getting on the course and ever since we have only had one attack. Friends at other courses in Brittany say their course also at great cost fenced around the course to protect the course against the sangliers.
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Post by Seaboots on Aug 17, 2022 11:23:38 GMT 1
Yes, greens turf grass (Agrostide Stolonfera) is an exotic grass which is very delicate. It doesn’t like most chemicals except certain fungicides and can be easily mutilated and diseased. You won’t believe how much tlc and expense is required to keep greens healthy. Especially now that certain chemicals from fungicides and insecticides that were previously used to treat courses have now been banned, so the jobs have become much tougher to keep greens in top condition. It is now, as you have just said, down to tlc and finding new ways to keep greens healthy. For a few years we had sangliers destroy parts around the greens or on the greens and so at great expense some years back fencing was put up where it was believed it would stop them getting on the course and ever since we have only had one attack. Friends at other courses in Brittany say their course also at great cost fenced around the course to protect the course against the sangliers. We installed fencing but there was (the GC had since closed) a public right of way which had to remain open for pedestrians, cyclists and farm machinery etc which meant the course could never be boar free. Fungicides etc are being banned annually by EU laws which means the weapons available to the greenkeeper are almost non existant. We constructed ‘replacement greens’ where we could cut and replace turf when reparation was impossible. The turf cutter is probably the greenkeepers best friend…
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Post by omegal on Aug 17, 2022 21:01:22 GMT 1
Our green keeper and his green staff have a large area where good turf is grown as replacement for any area requiring it e.g areas where the sangliers have done their worst. I am off to the West of Brittany tomorrow and the director of golf there has warned us that the fairways are badly burnt and brown (it is a links course) but the greens are hanging on. Hopefully the recent rains have helped, if only a tad.
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