Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Equipment to Speed Up Recovery


With the greens not being great this season due to the desiccation and snow mold damage, we were happy to try any other equipment to help speed up the process of recovery.

Slit Seeder

We demoed the Turfco Triwave slit seeder on our worst green, #14. This machine worked very well. It creates a slit in the ground and then drops the seed into it. Following the seed being dropped, there are rollers on the back which push the soil back together afterwards. The slits could've been closed a little more by using a greens roller afterwards, but we left them and it worked. 

Turfco Triwave in Action

Slit seeder rows growing in
Sweep N Fill Brush

Another piece of equipment we demoed (and eventually bought) was the Sweep N Fill brush. This brush rotates while you pull it, flicking the turf.