Cure Localised Dry Patch on Greens with this step by step guide to dealing with hydrophobic soil in bowls greens.
Cure Localised Dry Patch on Greens
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June is Localised Dry Patch Time, start now to deal with it Permanently!
Localised Dry Patch typically rears its ugly head in June in the UK, but by then it is way too late to do anything about it. Once your green is displaying the large brown patches of desiccated grass and powder dry soil beneath, no amount of watering or wetting agent will bring it back fully this year. Now is the time to inspect your green and deal with it permanently.
How to Cure Localised Dry Patch in Bowls Greens
Create a healthy living green environment. This question is an amalgamation of upwards of 50 similar search queries on the site this month. Essentially what these readers are looking for is a cure for Localised Dry Patch. As regular readers will know, using the word “cure” in Bowling Green Maintenance is an example of “Symptoms …
How to Water a Bowls Green
During dry and hot weather the need to water your green properly can't be over emphasised. Although it can be tempting to let the green burn to achieve speed, this can turn to disaster and cause the green to fail later in the season.
Finding the Sweet Spot in Bowling Green Performance
The Sweet Spot in greenkeeping is when your green's Physical, Chemical and Biological components come into line to deliver results you couldn't previously have imagined were possible. Hitting that sweet spot is a lot simpler than you might imagine too, as focus on the soil's biology will naturally correct some of the worst Chemical problems and compensate for some of the worst Physical ones. There should be no problem "selling" this idea to your club either as first of all it saves money and secondly it massively improves green performance and consistency.