There comes a point in every long-running problem where the evidence becomes too obvious to ignore. For many of the bowling clubs that get in touch to ask about solving green performance problems, I think they are now at that point with sand.
After another summer of heat, dry patch, weak turf, hydrophobic soil, disease pressure, uneven surfaces, irrigation panic and increasing renovation costs, the question can no longer be: “What top dressing are we putting on this autumn?”
...we can consider Golf and Bowls as sports that long ago had a common greenkeeping ancestor. In terms of budgets, skills, equipment, labour availability and professional support, we can usefully consider these to have followed different evolutionary paths and that they are now two distinct species...
Localised Dry Patch doesn’t disappear just because summer is ending. Evolve G Granular Wetting Agent is the perfect addition to our NotDressing autumn renovation programme, helping autumn rainfall penetrate stubborn hydrophobic areas and continuing the work on LDP quietly in the background through the wetter months, before next summer exposes the problem all over again.
Localised Dry Patch is a common problem on greens in summer and it can take a while to conquer it. Could some of our traditional management practices be making it worse?
