Greetings! Its been some time since my last update. Once we opened back in July, we stayed extremely busy. We had an event just about every weekend from July until now! Overall I would say it was a successful year. Thanks to our staff for their hard work and a special thanks to all the visitors and participants this year. I just wanted to share a few photos from this fall...
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| Aerification is an important cultural practice in turf management. Ideally you will want to aerify a few times a year when your turf is actively growing. For cool-season turf, fall is a great time to aerify. Aerification helps alleviate compaction, improves soil aeration, improves water infiltration, and helps with controlling thatch buildup. We have aerified 3 times already this fall. |
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9-26-2012
Frost damage on bermudagrass. This is the beginning stages of the warm season turf going into winter dormancy. |
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11-3-2012
Kentucky Youth Soccer Commonwealth Cup - early morning start |
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12-1-2012
Football University Middle School Tournament |
I would like to do a better job keeping the blog updated this coming year. Now that construction is complete. I have been kicking around the idea of renaming the blog to something maintenance related and post about maintenance practices and issues we come across. What do you all think?
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Beautiful looking fields. Are any of your fields turf or are they all just sod. It seems that there's a lot more use of turf in Vancouver for all of the fields than there used to be. Do you think that your fields will make the transition to turf or probably not.
ReplyDeleteJake, thank you. Assuming that by Turf, your mean synthetic turf? Yes we have 2 synthetic turf fields. The last photo is one of our synthetic turf fields. Our facility is basically a brand new facility, we opened last summer (2012), so there is no immediate plans for transitioning natural turf to synthetic at this point. However, I certainly wouldn't rule that out in the future, especially for the baseball fields. Rain outs cost us (and the community) money!
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