Aeration Plans
This week we will be aerating greens using two different machines and topdressing with sand to fill the holes. We will begin first thing Monday morning and hope to complete the process and have things cleaned up by the end of the day Wednesday. However, there are always potential hiccups so we build in an extra day just in case. Rain is not expected so Thursday, if all else goes well, will not be needed for aeration and we can open for play. Topdressing with sand is the first step. We then use our tractor with the deep tine aerator to put 7" deep holes that are spaced roughly 4" apart. Following that we use our small aerator to create 3" deep holes that are spaced roughly 2.5" apart. Both these steps use tines that are 1/2" in diameter. We then brush the sand into the holes doing our best to fill them completely to the top. Temperatures are supposed to reach the 90s which is not ideal for brushing sand into aeration holes...
