Got Plugs??

Pictured above is the nursery plug I had taken out a while back. Each picture has been taken roughly one week after the previouse one and has continued to show us some signs of life. As exciting it is to finally see some green, I'm deeply disapointed to see how much death has occured on this green. By looking at this sample, you will notice that hardly any of the Annual Bluegrass has managed to make it through the winter. The vertical shoots represent the Bentgrass that makes up only a small percentage of this green. Seeing this gives me a pit in my stomach knowing that the majority of our older greens consist of this variety.
It might be worth mentioning that this sample has been placed in our greenhouse and has had the opportunity that none of our other greens have, 78degree temperatures and a steady stream of water and oxygen, you might even call it a controll. As we enter into warmer months, soil temperatures will be the number-one variable to our golf course waking up from its off season slumber. I'll get into soil temperatures later when I have taken a plug from the new holes, picures are truely worth a thousand words in this instance.