Start of another short week but we have a lot to do. The weather over the weekend was dry and reasonably warm, so areas of the course are beginning to dry out. Begging for rain I thought we were due some today, however we seem to miss every rain filled cloud going. Only a few spots fell and certainly didn't go anyway to watering the dry areas.
The irrigation has been used for the last couple of nights to keep moisture levels adequate and prevent crusty surfaces.
When the surface is dry for long periods of time a hydrophobic film seems to develop, slowing ingress of water to the soil. Seen here to the left of the nearest sprinkler. Water tends to run on the surface for a short period before it penetrates. To aid water penetration we spray a wetter which reduces the surface tension of the water and allows it to enter the soil. This morning we applied a wetter, followed by a granular fertiliser application providing 10 kg N per hect on the greens and surrounds.
We also started solid tining tees and surrounds with used 12mm tines to a depth of 150mm.
We had a stump grinder from Beaver Plant Hire to grind all stumps left from winter tree work. Adam spent most of the day grinding, with good progress made any only 4 stumps remaining at the end of the day.
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