Work continues on the greens through April as we have mini solid tined them all.With the annual meadow grass now starting to seed,we brushed and cut them and a week later they were all lightly verticut to help in removing some  of the seed heads.A soluble fertiliser was applied along with seaweed and potassium products to  aid recovery from the stress this work adds to the sward.We hope to top dress them all next week to help smooth out the surface,once the sand has worked into the sward we can think about regrinding and sharpening  the greens cutting units as the sand is very abrasive to the blades.When this is done we can think about lowering the height of cut down from 5mm to nearer 4mm.
One of our recent summer staff has departed to Warley Park Golf Club,and we have Daniel Powell from Capel Manor college with us who is doing his work experience while working towards his NVQ2.
We sprayed the new wild flower area behind the 1st green Heron with a total weed killer and then scarified it before sowing the seed,also we have created a new flower bed near to the base of the steps of the veranda.

wildflower area sprayed

                                                                   scarifing the area

wild flower seed sown 

New flower bed area being planted

                                                             the last view of this years bluebells

golfers playing under a  grey sky