Works completed for the months of August

 

  • With the winter coming to its end, and having good winter rainfalls for the months of June /July. Hartfield is certainly being blessed with having a few warmer days in mid August with patchy rain, the course is really holding up well for this time of year, and there is good grass coverage over  our playing surfaces and I feel it’s shaping up to be a good spring.
  • With the wild weather and strong winds recently, staff have been busy with cleaning up fallen trees, large limbs and debris.
  • Gradually trying to tidy up course furniture with replacing some bins, ball washers, as well re- painting current course furniture bins, sand tubs, posts etc.
  • In partnership with the shire of Kalamunda and Hartfield Country Club, we are currently having our native bush mapped, and treated thru injections, and foliar spray to minimise this effects of Die back (Phytophthora cinnamomi) which targets a lot of our native trees throughout the course especially the Jarrahs trees, Banksias and Sheoaks syringe injection of trees is being done through the Glenn Tufnell and his staff from Dieback Treatment Association of Western Australia and Hartfield was last treated and mapped back in 2010.
  •  Continued with verti draining areas around the course, this is to help the playing surfaces out by relieving soil compaction to the wet areas around greens, and allowing excess water to pass through the soil profile. Having to change tines, depending on the areas we are working on. Greens have just been mini tined and are due for a light sand application (dusting) to improve firmness, drainage and roll of the greens.
  • We didn’t turf out the collar on the 9th green to remove couch encroachment, favourable conditions for bent grass growth made it hard to identify all of the couch, and if we had have turfed  out the couch,  with the young  bent grass, it most likely would have sat dormant and  putting surface would have suffered.
  • Works planned for the months of August/September
  • Preparation for the Hartfield Open and the lead up to the event, normal maintenance practices of fertiliser applications but without the pacloburtazol (Growth retardant).
  • Bunker maintenance, edging, fly mow, weeding and levelling.
  •  Greens renovations will start on Sunday evening after the Hartfield Open, to give us a head start to the week.
  • Course fertiliser applications for spring green up.
  • Pre emergent applications of herbicide to our tees  to control the crab grass also there are a few other areas I have noted that need to be done like the approach and surround of the 9th green.
  • And finally good luck to all competing in the Club Championships.

Course Superintendent

Nick Kinley