[viva_oldtrafford]

So today I broke out the verticutter and aerifier and went to town on the range tees. Started with a heavy...HEAVY verticut and followed that up with a vaccum, mow, aerification, topdressing and dragmat. The last few pictures involve the verticutter cutting some sprigs that I can use to fill the hole left by a few trees we lost during Irma - heavy sprigging followed with a heavy topdressing. Tees are celebration bermuda.

https://imgur.com/a/pTeEYDG

 

[Movingshrub]

I've got some sprig questions for you. Do you all set the depth differently when harvesting vs dethatching? Do you do a dethatching pass prior to harvesting?

Do you all crimp them in with a disc, such as a cultipacker, or just stolonize and topdress instead of crimping?

 

[viva_oldtrafford]

I've got some sprig questions for you. Do you all set the depth differently when harvesting vs dethatching? Do you do a dethatching pass prior to harvesting?

Do you all crimp them in with a disc, such as a cultipacker, or just stolonize and topdress instead of crimping?

No, same depth. No disc today - I don't have one on hand - just a heavy topdressing on top of a heavy dose of sprigs (I've used a disc before and actually found it to have lesser efficacy vs a heavy round of sand - ymmv)

 

[Movingshrub]

I did broadcast stolonizing last year for a 9000 sqft area. Not top dressing. No crimping. Just regular water. It poured on the sprigging day just as I showed up with the harvester stolons to plant. I couldn't figure out how to let the ground dry out enough to walk on and topdress without it being so dry that the springs would dry out and die.

 

[Colonel K0rn]

So what you're saying is that we now have a sprigging source for TLF members, right? :bandit:

Seriously, thanks for sharing. That looks like a lot of labor.

 

[viva_oldtrafford]

So what you're saying is that we now have a sprigging source for TLF members, right? :bandit:

Seriously, thanks for sharing. That looks like a lot of labor.

I get somewhat nervous/anxious knowing that the vac just gets dumped at our dump and that acres worth of sprigs are going to just rot! It was a long day, mainly becsuse the sprigs on the tee slopes (1.75" hoc) took forever to dry - vacs hate wet material.

 

[Still learnin]

Very cool to see that in progress. Makes me want to go hang out at golf courses to watch them work.