Its been a busy week at Malton, the weather is certainly turning autumnal and the trees are starting to change colour and loose there leaves.

Recently we have been getting more rain which has encouraged worm activity, the greens, surrounds and tees have been sprayed to suppress worms this week, however further treatments may be needed if the wet weather continues. The tees were also sprayed with sulphate of iron to discourage worms, knock back any moss and to add colour.

The recent rain has washed the fertiliser we applied last week in well and the greens are now a lot denser and greener, we will monitor growth rates and apply growth regulator until we feel the temperatures have dropped off not to warrant applications.

We have also been grooming to reduce lateral growth, however now the weather is cooler and wetter it is important not to over stress and bruise the grass plants making disease more likely. So brushing will increase to help get a better cut on a morning, the height of cut remains at 3.0mm (actual) and will do until all summer competitions have finished. As we did last year the height of cut will be raised to 4mm (actual) in winter and the greens and surrounds will be cut with the hand mowers to reduce stress and machinery wear on the greens.
We have continued to edge bunkers and all long and intermediate rough has been cut once more, the ditch running across 10 and 13 has been cleared and the bridges tidied, the grass heaps have also been cleared from the course.

Other cutting continues as normal although the mornings and nights are drawing in.

That's me moving the hole on the 9th this morning......................................somewhere in the picture!