Spraying season 2019 ...

Time flies huh? Hard to believe we are spraying already. That being said, despite the lack of snow this winter, we are about two weeks behind last year weatherwise ( based on growing degree days ). Based on my eyes, I noted a noticeable green up on February 28th last year. I didn't notice the same green up until March 15th this year. If you remember we had a very warm February last year. We aerified tees in February and made our first spray on March 6th. And then it seemingly snowed all of March! Like I said last time, this job is always interesting to say the least.

The spray yesterday was to minimize and suppress the seedheads that the poa will try to develop in the coming weeks. Doing so will improve the putting surface and save the plant some energy and resources. Unless you have snow mold issues coming out of winter this spray generally kicks off the spraying season for those of us managing poa greens in the northeast and many other areas of the country.

I've walked on most the greens the last two days and we seem to be disease free. We also seemed to made it through the cold months with very little winter damage. The swale in the back of #1 green may have some small spots of winter kill, but otherwise we are in good shape.

Some pics attached of before and after as well as a sprayed green ... oh hey, it is raining again!