Ragwort Weather !

Today it has rained constantly ,so ive taken the opportunity to put a light Granular Feed on the Greens 8-0-0 .

The rest of the Team have been picking Ragwort "Stinking Willie". In Scotland its called this because its said to have spread in the path of William Duke of Cumberland`s Culloden Campaign.

                                      Michael & Jimmy hauling it out ! 

Dyna Seeder Units

Last week we had Demonstration of the Dyna Seeder Units these are the Mk 2 Model and are a vast improvement on the Mk 1 for Fescue Overseeding !

In Action on the 7th Green .

Deputy Paul Marshall  In Test Mode!

Challenge Cup Week

This is our 4 Day Open Event with 140 entrants battling it out, the best golfer will win The Challenge Cup 1st played for in 1901.

I will try to upload a few pictures through out the week off us setting the course up.

Kenny Raking The Greenside Bunker on the 14th

Jimmy Cutting The 15th Green Blin` Dunt

Paul Changing The 9th Hole Hawklaw

The Greenstaff Divoting The 12th Fairway Finnyfal

The View Down The 13th Fairway  Bents

Jim Ironing The 17th Green

Rubber Crumb In The Bath Tub !

Today we have put down our 3rd application of Rubber Crumb on the R H S off the Bath Tub 14th Green .

The Right Hand Side suffers from a lot of traffic especially the base off the steps !

The Rubber Crumb brushed in after spiking/solid tining helps the roots and base of the plant handle the wear and tear from thousands off golfers feet over the course off a season !
Roomer has it the rubber crumb is recycled formula 1 tyres and can double the green speed ! :   )

The last few days we have had a demonstration off the Toro Pro Core 648  and we took the opertunity to solid tine a lot of areas around the course including the spare green above and the undulating 17th fairway which it handled with ease !

Weedkilling The Never Ending Battle

Today the weather was perfect for spot treating Clover on our greens no wind with good cloud cover and no rain forecast until tommorrow.

Weedkilling on a golf course is a never ending battle .We try as much as possible to handweed our greens but certain ones like clover and pearlwort need to be spot treated with a selective weedkiller. 

Overseeding Brown Top Bent

At the end of last week we took the opertunity to fire in some AbeRoyal Browntop Bent into our weaker greens .

The weather was perfect !

Compost Tea

This is our 3rd year using Compost Tea at Cruden Bay .

A bag of specially blended compost is brewed in the tank above and the Tea produced is then sprayed on our Greens .The Compost is brewed to extract and multiply beneficial Fungi and Bacteria . The profile of free draining  links greens are quite sterile and populations of these Fungi and Bacteria can be on the low side .

Regular applications of Tea help to break down locked up nutrients and make them available to the grass roots,increasing plant health ,drought and disease resistance.Many people wont have heard about compost tea,but it has a long history of use in agriculture dating back to Roman times !