2010 Here we come!

Well we start the year off with Mother Nature bearing down on us, brrr its fridged out there!!  As you all know the course has been covered up for a period now, with no warming temperatures in sight.  I was glad to see the greens get a little snow cover though, with the cold, brutal winds we have been getting could possible do more harm to the plant than anything, but the snow performs a layer of insulation and the white snow actually warms the soil a little bit. 
Although snow cover may or may not be good for the grass, we can actually fight diseases this time of year.  Snow molds can be devestating to Northern climates, here we usually are not covered by snow for more than 60 days, but who knows these days.  We however applied a late season fungicide to hopefully prevent any snow molds from forming.
I will be working on the blog alot more this year, hopefully giving the members a deeper look into the things we do and the items we face.  So continue checking for any updates especially during golf season!!

Turkey Day

Its hard to believe that we are already looking at the end of November, where has the year gone?  Sorry its been a while since I last posted, I have been up to my ears with year end work and budgeting along with early order programs.  I promise to get back on track through the next few months. 

Well the weather has been mildly warm the last few weeks, leaving the door open for us to work on some of our winter maintenance outside, we have started prepping areas in the natives that will either be burnt or mowed down this year.  I stated in the newsletter, if anyone has contact information to anyone that might be interested in swathing and bailing the native grass this year, to please get into contact with me.  We used a few areas last year to see if burning helped or not?  Our conclusion was that burning the natives definitely cleaned up all of the dead material, it allowed open voids in the soil for weed seed germination.  Areas we did not get burnt last year rarely needed any maintenance besides the woody growth, but it also seemed to thin itself out a little.  So this early spring we will be burning areas we have been fighting, but in the same time alowwing other areas to be mowed.  Some might wonder why we dont continue burning?  The burning definitely helps the grasses, it may cause to much thickening and we have seen the diversity of species that were once in the native get to be a minimal stand of plants.  I guess you could look at it like the "survival of the fittest"  I will keep you updated on the process when the time arrives.

I would like wish everyone a Happy and Safe Turkey Day!!

Finally Fall!

Well Happy Halloween Members and Guests, I finally believe MotherNature is finally giving us a beautiful fall for this weekend and for next week, if you havent been out golfing, I am thinking Sunday is going to be great!!  Well Course conditions is getting better, the previous rainfall brought us 1.5" of rain and it just never seemed to stop on Thursday, causing us to be extremely wet on Friday and most of Saturday.  I have had to limit carts on paths for a few days, but this time of year is where we definitely can not afford any damage to the turf, mainly because is has slowed down to halt, so any damage we have now, will definitely be here in the spring. 

The driving range and practice holes have been heavily seeded once again, hopefully we will get a great stand of turf to give to you all this spring.  I would ask everyone to stay limited to cart paths only on the practice holes, it will definitely help out with the germination of the new grass, which I have seen alot of seed popping, but I know with the temps we are going to get next week it should be "just what the doctor ordered"!!

Well I hope November stays the same, but if not I am sure I will see ya out and about!!

Ryan

Brrrrrrrrr!

      Well all be, the weather just doesnt know what to do!!  This week we actually got pretty lucky and had a few nice days at the start of ther week to get some work completed, then the forecast on Wednesday looked gloomy and rainy, which turned out to be semi correct but the rain held off until we had gotten #5 cart path sodded in!!  2 more holes to go, with 18 being the next!!  The range and practice holes have been heavily overseeded, so I am anxious to seem the outcome come spring, I would ask though if you are playing the 3 practice holes, if you could keep the carts on the paths, there may be many times through the fall that it might become a little muddy. 
      Saturday the weather looks like another frosty morning, but warming up nicely, but please call ahead of your scheduled tee time to find out course conditions. Sunday the clouds and chances of rain roll back in??  I hope you all have a great weekend, and it worked last week-"Go Cats!!"

Sun of a Gun!

Can you believe its been a long time since we were able to see the sun, it was bright, and I had to search for my sunglasses!!  Well it looks like we might have some decent golfing weather through the weekend, but come Tues-Friday of next week another large front is heading our way with rain and clouds.  This weekends golf report looks like we might see a little frost on the pumpkin on Saturday with lows around 34, so please check with the golf shop before making your way to the course, unless you like seeing those guys!!  Have a good weekend, GO CATS!!

Drizzle and Clouds

This weather lately has definitely put a damper in my mood, we haven't seen the sun for 4 weeks it seems.  The wetter weather we have been experiencing has definitely halted many winter prep jobs, like overseeding and fairway aerification.  Hopefully the weather will change and Mother Nature might actually give us a fall and we can get the course in shape for winter dormancy.  I will keep ya posted

Getting Started

Well, I am one that had grown up using a computer quite a bit, but unlike in todays society, so please be patient as I learn the new blogging!! It should be fun for me, as I like to talk ALOT, but also fun for the members of Terradyne and anyone else following! So in the coming days I should be starting and editing the new blogspot for TCC Golf and Grounds.