9.26 Tree fell and almost ruined the plans

 

Area where pool may not go up next year might get the putting green treatment?

 

I double dog dare you!!

 

10.4 - slow progress, couple of days here in the high 70's hopefully kicks it up. Trying to stay patient, over seeded bare areas that most likely were washed out by rain.

 

I'm getting the feeling there is a little too much shade, going to start pruning some limbs a bit.

 

You know, it usually seems to be the case that most golf courses avoid having too much shade near the putting greens. Makes a lot of sense when I think about it.

 

10.8 - few warm days this week seemed to spur some good growth. Rolled and cut some of the more established areas.

 

Nice progress! What height of cut are you going for on it?

 

Looking to get to .125 ish, hopefully by late next summer or fall, for the rest of this fall just going to stay at .5" let me know if you think that's a mistake though

 

@mowww has a great putting green. He may have put HOC info in his journal.

Mowww's 2022 Lawn and Putting Green Journal

As I write this, it is snowing and the roads are icy. Before long, we'll be back out there. Looking forward to the challenges 2022 brings to continue learning and growing. Goals for 2022: - Install Worx Landroid in the backyard and modify the fence to allow for passage to mow a portion of the...

www.thelawnforum.com

@livt0ride also has an awesome putting green. His journal might be useful as well.

livt0ride - Backyard Renovation - Green Installation 2021

Today is a very special day. I will be starting down a journey to renovate the back yard and turn it into something special. Currently there are a variety of cool season grasses that don't perform well when cut short. I am planning on putting in Barenbrug sports turf KBG and Rye as well as Pure...

www.thelawnforum.com

@rhart also has a putting green. Check out his journal from this year too.

If I remember right, the idea for a green is to train it early to be cut low. I’m not sure if 0.5” is low enough when you start… I haven’t done the research, but maybe 0.3”-0.4” would be a better starting point? I may look this up later, too tired right now 😴

 

@Ben4Birdies thank you! great information, love this place.

 

Start cutting it daily at a min of .25" and in my opinion rolling it this early does more harm than good. I would also lightly topdress once a week.

 

Thanks @rhart im cutting with a jacobsen 122, does the weight of the mower do more harm then good, i had been cutting just with the push Scott reel mower because i was weary of the weight.

 

Thanks @rhart im cutting with a toro 122, does the weight of the mower do more harm then good, i had been cutting just with the push Scott reel mower because i was weary of the weight.

Not familiar with the toro 122. But the weight of a greensmower shouldn't be a problem. The mower weight is ok...just go off the green to make your turns.

 

@rhart thank you!

 

Have you been fertilizing it? It's getting a little late in the season, but while growing in I was fertilizing every 7-10 days.

 

Yes ive been doing scotts starter every 6 days or so, and have been working in foliar through liquid fert from petrotools. When should i stop that, temperatures are high 40s low 50s at night here still.

 

As long as it is still actively growing.

 

When it's this young you have to be really careful not to turn in it. I tried to just roll with my mower before cutting and didn't make sure the bedknife was high enough and dug into the turf in a couple spots. Other than that it's fine to role at this stage.

 

@livt0ride thanks for the tips, yours came out looking awesome

 

had some tree guys take some trees down for more sun, past the time for good seed germination not happy not upset with progress so far. Stuff that’s in looks good bald spots are a bit disappointing but we’ll hit them in spring. Still fertilizing once a week and cutting every other day. Learned that I can slide the engine back on my mower which was good because there were times the front roller would dig in and make a rut.

 

Started back up again, heavy top dress with 1 part sand 1 part top soil, leveled off all the bare areas where the bentgrass took, going to wait another week or two to get new seed down. Kind of want to get a cover to start a little early but am being too cheap.

 

Looking forward to your updates this year on the golf green, fellow LI here in Brookhaven. You are putting me to shame but I’ll get there one day!

 

Lots of sand and leveling going on right now, mower is in the shop for a sharpen, looking at this weekend to overseed in entirety, then top with 80.20 sand/peatmoss. Using centenial to seed.

 

Interested to see your progress this year. I see you previously used T1 - why the switch to colonial?

 

@eric1104 So moved into the house in August after waiting for a 6 month close and was just really excited to get the green started. by the time i went to order seed t-1 was the only thing i could find, i shopped at united seeds. Looking at the ntep studies and being a total novice i just went with what looked best in my area which was the oakley, the centennial i used is a blend of oakley and piper. https://www.ntep.org/data/bt20g/bt20g_23-2/bt20gut122t.txt

 

Oh nice - I misread and thought you were going from a creeping to colonial bent variety. Looks like a good choice!

 

overseeded 4/8 no germination of that yet but grass is looking green

 

Update from 5.1 cutting at .4, fertilizing each week, fungiciding, lots of sand. Some disease pressure you can see at the bottom of the picture. Hard staying patient but i feel it is making some progress, may start to get more aggressive plugging for the middle sections as the seeding has been hit or miss.