Blue skies contrasts nicely with the green hues of the golf course,and if warm as well not only will it give density to the sward but encourage golfers to come and play and enjoy the surroundings .

6th Vixen

Warmer temperatures increase the grass growth which has to be maintained,team work is essential to achieve this,and many hands make like work especially when using strimmers which can be a back straining task when used to cut ditches.This is to allow golfers and mower operators to see the ditch edge,without totally destroying the natural flora and fauna which will use the areas as vital wildlife corridors.



strimming ditch 9th hawk

We are trialing a product called Rescue on selected areas .This product removes certain grass species from the sward  like rye grass and yorkshire fog,leaving behind the finer grass species like fescue and bents.The idea is to create a finer sward in the roughs,so ball finding and playing will be easier and the visual appearence improved,early days as yet to make judgement

9th Hawk
This is the first year that we have made up our own hanging baskets for outsde the clubhouse as its a lot cheaper and more satisfying  to do,we have also been growing our own plants for the clubhouse beds either from seed,cuttings or bought plant plugs.

Below Sam Cooke is potting up lavendar cuttings taken from our plants outside the clubhouse last autumn,this will be planted out in our beds when they are bigger plants.

We have completed the weed and feed spraying on the fairways and the clover is now starting to die off to give a cleaner sward, the feed will encourage the grass to fill as the clover dies off.we will continue to weed spray into the cut rough when we have the right spraying window to do so,very often there is to much breeze to allow spraying to take place.Below clover on the 5th hawk dying out.