Yesterday the River Derwent finally dropped, after over 8 weeks of flooding on holes 21-24 the floodgates were opened.
Water has been stood on the turf for a long time so I expected it to be looking a little poor. This morning the water level had dropped to a little higher than normal with just a few isolated puddles left on the turf. Overall the damage is minamal and the turf looked better than expected. It will need a good few days to dry out properly providing the flooding doesn't come back.
On Thursday we had the fdra (rabbits) on the course so we took the opportunity to finish tidying up some fallen trees on the edge of the driving range after the last storm. Then continuing with a little tree work on the 26th hole.
The weather has been good for the last few days so we have taken the opportunity to cut surrounds with the hand mower. With the temperatures increasing there has been a little growth in some of the more managed areas, greens, surrounds and tees. It can soon cool down again at this time of the year, fertiliser applications are planned for the start of March to help spring recovery when we do get constantly higher temperatures.
We also finished off the 11th tee edging, the path just to re stone.
An excavator is due next week to start a few small projects then on to drainage on the 27th and 17th holes.
The practice green this morning
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