One of the larger tasks we have in the fall is cleaning up the immense amount of leaves that grace our course. This really is not news to you since your occasional wayward shot ends up under some of our windrows of leaves. Our apologies, the vacuum will be by soon to clean those up.
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| A turbine blower corralling leaves for removal |
The process is simple, but important since the amount of leaves we have cannot be mulched and incorporated into our rough without a negative impact on the turf. Since leaves have a very high amount of carbon, it takes a lot of nitrogen to break down them down to become organic matter that benefits the soil and plant. What ends up happening is the soil microbes that decompose the leaves end up using a portion of the fertilizer we applied a few weeks ago. We choose to harvest the leaves off the course for composting so the fertilizer we apply to the rough can actually be used by the rough. It does take a decent time commitment to make this happen, but after 2 years of harvesting leaves, our rough has not looked better. Of course our selective tree removals have compounding benefits as well for our turf.
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| Perhaps you remember playing from this surface before... |
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| And now the results from tree and leaf removal between 15 and 17 |
See you on the course!
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