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Originally Posted by gfreese
After golfing in the Villages for 5 years and viewing the course conditions in the winter months and blaming the poor conditions on the lack of water I began to take notice of the practice of overseeding.
Last year in
Feb. I notice that there was 2 sizes of grass in the fairways, some grass was long (sprouting in the fall) and a lot of very small grass just starting to grow.
These 2 length of grass was the result of poor initial soil contact seed to ground (not water) when the frost came and killed the Bermuda the seed not germinated fell to the ground and sprouted.
I have spent a lot of time researching how to overseed fairways and the practice used in the Villages is not recommened for sucess.
There are several ways ---1 is to earate then put seed down--another is to drop seed and chain drag the fairway so seed falls thru the thick Bermuda both will help seed get good ground contact---they are still using the same practice so don't expect better fairways this winter.
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