'Out Damned Spot'

This year we made the elimination of the dreaded weed, English Daisy, one of our top priorities. Many hours were spent spraying individual Daisy plants in the fairways. Because some of the Daisy plants were fairly large, after they died, bare spots were left behind. We decided that the best thing to do was to sod these bare spots with hybrid bermudagrass sod. The added advantages of introducing more hybrid bermudagrass to the fairways is that it has superior drought resistance and excellent-heat resistance, wear tolerance and high salt tolerance.

English Daisy (Bellis perennis)




Bare Spot after Daisy dies

 

                 Because sod is heavily fertilized in preperation for harvesting at the sod farm, it grows much faster than our fairways. The grass will slow down as the fertilizer runs out.         

                           

  We installed the sod with a special tool we made in house. The tool quickly cuts the sod into 6" squares. We also use the tool to quickly cut out matching holes in the fairways which the sod plugs are set into. Once the sod plugs get rooted, they will begin growing sideways, filling in the entire bare spot. By using these sod plugs we were able to sod the spots much quicker and a little cheaper than if we had sodded the entire bare spot.