Spring Fertilizer Application

We mowed all playing surfaces last week In an attempt to remove dormant winter growth. This will help get us ready for this the season's growth. We applied fertilizer to the golf course to help with spring green up. It is an organic fertilizer that will offer a long duration of availability to the turf as it breaks dormancy.

One of our main concerns this year was breaking dormancy too early. This year we had a spring green up in late January when the plants used a lot of store carbohydrates that the plant has been storing in the root system from this past fall. The recent cold-weather has definitely set the Bermuda back a few more weeks from where it was in January therefore these carbohydrates were lost and wasted essentially wasted. This fertilizer application should provide a good nutrient source for the turf as it begins to break its winter dormancy period.