One of the simple tasks done by the staff at The Peninsula Club is to monitor our very small, weaker areas on greens. These areas may have shade, traffic, rootzone or other challenges to maintaining a dense healthy turfgrass. The rest of the green that is healthy may not require the extra fertility but the weaker areas do.
Therefore, one of the many things we do to make these areas better is to hand fertilize with a 50:50 mix of sand and organic fertilizer (Figure 1). This mix fills in voids with extra topdressing and gives the area much needed fertilizer that has no risk of harming the grass. This is a simple task done without most golfers noticing that we have done this practice.
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| Assistant Jesse Cigary hand applies a 50:50 mix of topdressing sand and an organic fertilizer to weak areas on the edges of greens. |
